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Anxious Dogs and People: Using AI to Make It Awkward
Throwing curveballs at ChatGPT gets the most interesting results. You start to see the “artificial” part of AI that often reflects an uncomfortable problem or ugly contradiction in the ways humans think and use language — especially to classify others, which always indicates status and value.
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The Healthy Creative Balance: Between Unreason and Overthinking
“It seems that the key to creative cognition is opening up the floodgates and letting in as much information as possible.”
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Crip Time
What would a calendar look like that prioritized and protected caregiving? What about one that understood … different types of relationships and the soft but consistent focus they demand? That understood creativity, and children, or grief? What would a family calendar look like that made its primary steward and their needs as visible as others?
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Lord Grizzly
Here is one of the CMT-related poems I’ve written. There aren’t many. This was the first and is surely the longest. It’s in the long-line style of James Schuyler, who offered a really fun, liberating model a few 30/30s ago. The title nods to Frederick Manfred (AKA Feike Feikema) who wrote a historical-fictional account of…
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Disease, Depression, and Family Denial
CMT and other hideable/hidden diseases may often be denied by the people closest to you — a potentially devastating, psychologically defeating, and depressing, gaslit reality that is toxic and abusive.
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Reading (and Writing) about Disability
Over at Electric Literature, Robert Kingett recently reviewed a bunch of literary anthologies written by, for, and about disabled people. These are essays and fictional works from the young adult genre to dystopian science fiction.
