Category: Selective Silence Blog

Hiding in Plain Buzzwords

I want to share an recent example of how easily bigoted thought just moves through “progressive” spaces, needing only a few key words to side step overt detection, but allowing for that harmful perspective to breed and maintain a place in people’s “allyship”. There was a comedian going around...

Post Shutdown Reflection!

Okay party people! Post shut down reflection.What did you build in that day? Did you feed people outside your usual circle, learn, educate, think about what your step two is in a world where you’ll wake up the next day and the government still won’t care. Where we have...

Boycott More Than Black Friday

While striking is on all the cool kid’s minds, shall I propose something.I know a lot of folks have been boycotting buying stuff on black friday sales. But have y’all noticed that tha sales just last through the first week of January (maybe it’s new. Maybe it’s not. Holidays...

US nationwide general strike. Friday, January 30th

In, like, a week I will have for you a fun little update about some silly little project that I’ve been working on.Today, I’m reaching out with something a lot more important.Somali and Black students in Minneapolis organized a state wide general strike over ICE brutality and they are...

Truth #2: They will do anything to get you to reinvest in the US project.

Truth #2They will do anything to get you to reinvest in the US project. Politics within the US have been manipulated and narrowed to look like there could only be two valid political parties. Only two valid options to not only remove from you the understanding of your real...

We whole heartedly, and without hesitation, condemn the imperially motivated terrorist attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Nicolás Madruno and Cilia Flores A good video to start with...

🥳🥳🥳I have officially delisted all of my works from Amazon! Anything you see there with my name on it is not authorized by me, and I get nothing from it.For now my books only look for my books digitally on itchio. There are some other legitimate providers, but this...

Why This Blog Has No Trigger Warnings

Despite seeing a lot of importance in “trigger warnings” (but more accurately to my work: themes), I do not use them much if at all on this site. The reason is that it can be really dehumanizing, particularly in a space like this. where I want to be able...

I Wrote a Scene Grieving Sudan the Day Before El Fashir Fell

I have an odd habit of writing that which comes to fruition in some way or another. It might not be particularly impressive when it comes to all of the social relationships in my life that I all but predicted through stories like the Sins of Regret. But it...

Judgemental veganism is yt supremacy #xyz

It feels like a descendant of the tactic of killing to near or full extinction the animal food sources of an indigenous population which will result in dependency on yt controlled resources without care for if those resources can sufficiently feed the population. It is simply bigotry if killing...