Ivan Coyote

It really does! Beautiful wrk!

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Holy borealis. 12:12am. -15C.

Holy do I ever look young here!

I was sorry to miss it too. I couldn’t do it so soon after surgery. I was trashed.

I’m on the mend for sure.

And yes, that is a painting by Suzo Hickey. I am that blessed.

Home sweet.

Thanks Nico! Working on Ontario dates for this show too. Toronto, London, St. Catharine’s to start.

Heading to Victoria today for rehearsals for Playlist shows. Sydney (on Vancouver Island) show is sold out I think) but there are still tickets for Victoria shows here: intrepidtheatre.com/shows/playli...

I am at the hospital waiting to get some bloodwork done and the maybe 80 year old woman sitting across from me is on her cell phone. It rings super loud in her hands, and the ring tone is fuck da police. She answers, chats quickly and then hangs up. My grandson. She says to me. He sets up my phone.

"We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay."
- Lynda Barry, WHAT IT IS

I vow to take care of my body and my heart so that I can be strong and make art and resist and love my comrades and lock arms with everyone else who is ready to fight.

Okay fine then I will go to work tomorrow but I’m not emailing anyone back until next Monday at the earliest, as a courtesy. Let’s not rush into things.

Glorious and chilly day to ring in the new year. -22 Celcius, -33 including the windchill. Sun dogs, ice crystals sparkling, and hoar frost.

Dorothy Allison, Author of ‘Bastard Out of Carolina,’ Dies at 75 She wrote lovingly and often hilariously about her harrowing childhood in a working-class Southern family, as well as about the violence and incest she suffered.

Nobody will ever have a cooler NYT obit photo www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/b...

Beginnings of the nearly solstice sun rising here at 10:36 am. It is setting right now, at 3:47pm Yukkn time. Short, but oh so sweet light today. Sun dogs, hoar frost, blue skies. Just glorious.

This holiday season let’s all give each other the gift of staying home and cooking shepard’s pie and organizing the drawers of our desks and then writing poems or doing crafts shall we?

December northern sky. There’s a pink where the setting sun bounces off the snow on the purple blue mountains on a cold day at just after four pm that only lives here, I swear it.

I’m in the Yukon right now. Whitehorse. Dec 11th the sun doesn’t rise until 11am. I’m slowly drinking coffee. Just had a contemplative shower. I’m heating up the car. I will start work when I get there and dawn will arrive shortly before my prelunch meeting. Totally civilized ride at dawn.

I’m going to tidy up my whole apartment and then write into the wee hours tonight. Let the record show.

My 2025 energy

It really is. TBH, one main problem I see (55 yrs old, out as queer since 1988, out as trans since I felt safe(ish) to do so), is people treating community like something to extract resources/knowledge from, instead of service, or working together for all of us, esp the more marginalized folks.

That is not what I meant. I was still crafting the next page of my response when you replied. In this city I do not feel I have the privilege or luxury to pick from multiple queer or trans orgs to put my energy into. And the one org we do have is imploding because we can’t get our shit together.

I don’t consider violence from terfs or LGB without the T lateral violence as both groups are by no means my community.

I would say the lateral aggression I see is btwn generations, btwn settlers with a history locally, and folks who moved here from big cities, and don’t really grok organizing in a small remote city. And settlers who need help learning how to truly make space for Indigenous queer/trans/2S folks.

I’m speaking from my perspective in a smallish, northern community, while watching our local queer support space implode on itself. We do not have the population base or luxury of multiple or very specific queer or trans organizations. This is not my wider, online, or larger circle. This is local.

We are living in increasingly terrifying times, and we have learned to fear each other in the last decade or so, more than I remember doing, at least, pre social media organizing times. I came out in 1988. I said what I said.

I think lateral violence is tearing apart queer and trans communities at a time when we need each other more than maybe ever, since perhaps the height of the AIDS crisis. I think repair and rebuilding and conflict management skills are desperately needed for all of us, including myself. 1 of 2

Tour is over. Hosting Tanya Talaga for the Active Voice series is done. One more week of classes. One more live show next week. I’m going to buckle down now on this supernatural horror book I’ve been working on. I would really love to cross the 60k words finish line before the new year.