Category Archives: heteronormativity

READING AND/THEN WRITING.A DIVAGATORY EXPLORATION OF THE PROCESS.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on July 25, 2020 by decayetude

To read is to write (sooner or later)……   I have got into a habit of buying intriguingly entrancing-appearing tomes on subjects clustered around: QUEER Walking/peregrinatory, not in a direct line, loitering; divagating { I also experience diverticular disease/diverticulitis….}; periphrastic … Continue reading →

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THE PLOT THICKENS. THE GAS-LIGHTER AND THE HERO, AND OTHERS.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 12, 2020 by decayetude

GASLIGHTING-DEFINITION “In politics[edit] Columnist Maureen Dowd was one of the first to use the term in the political context.[30][31] She described the Bill Clinton administration’s use of the technique in subjecting Newt Gingrich to small indignities intended to provoke him to make public complaints that “came across … Continue reading →

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THE BATTLES I FIGHT…WRITING EXERCISE (and more?):GRADUALLY SLINKING TOWARDS THE POST/ASLANT COVID NARRATIVE(S).THE PRELUDE(BOOK, ABOUT 7).BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 3, 2020 by decayetude

PHOBIAS(other peoples’s): polite word for dislike(occasionally, hatred); sometimes, a fear:”Ohh, wtf, that might be ME; I might be secretly like THAT; I better be nasty to them….” HOMO TRANS BI CAMP NON-GENDER BINARY   WELFARE BENEFITS CLAIMANTS; economically poor people … Continue reading →

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WRITING EXERCISE…. AND MORE.WHAT MAKES MY METRONOME WORK AND NOT WORK(“RIDERS”/”DRIVERS”).HOW CAN I USE THIS IS IN MY POST-COVID UNREAL/REAL OLD/NEW REALITY SERIES OF NARRATIVES? .BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on April 22, 2020 by decayetude

Let’s see where this goes….. As gay men, we made/make our (ever-changing/growing/receding{sometimes, in Covid time; occasionally expanding even then/now}REALITY…. to various degrees, depending on various macro and micro life /geographical configurations(and there is some choice in it, if we are … Continue reading →

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(META) JOURNAL(LING). FOR MYSELF AND THE CREATIVE WRITING COURSE. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on February 24, 2020 by decayetude

What is it about these (semi)deserted railway stations- and, especially- those clinging to part/tiny use-that haunts and wracks me?…… If you read this blog and it bleaker comrade https://decayetude.wordpress.com/(the latter 10 years extant in May) You will garner a strong … Continue reading →

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NIGHT-TIME FLANERIE.AN ADVENTURE IN TIME AND PLACE.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on August 31, 2019 by decayetude

It was the last summer Bank Holiday Sunday of the year…………. One of Liverpool’s(short-lived) lgbt nightclubs was closing….forever We were, it seemed, in that Martin Scorcese New York film, where the passive protagonist walks around, by night; and had various … Continue reading →

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PRIDE(LIVERPOOL):GAY/QUEER UTOPIA:MAKE IT REAL. MY THOUGHTS.DO WE GO THE DISTANCE? JULY 2018.BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on July 30, 2018 by decayetude

I mean I “get”, I support, and I applaud (Liverpool)Pride; especially the herculanean work by Organisers(all unpaid), especially in regard to huge difficulties obtaining a site this year (2018); all done, more or less, at the last minute. WHAT A … Continue reading →

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MASCULINITY AND ME.BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on June 8, 2018 by decayetude

CATALYST: “The Descent of Man”(Grayson Perry, 2016) I am (mainly) a social construction in regard to gender roles. Whilst I am a PSYCHOLOGICAL  androgynite (identifying-emotionally- as neither ” male” nor female”, since these alleged “masculine” or “feminine” psychological traits are NOT … Continue reading →

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WHY DO I WRITE?. FOR MERSEYSIDE LGBT CREATIVE WRITING GROUP.JUNE 2018.FREEFLOW. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 6, 2018 by decayetude

QUESTIONS Status angst? (A bit; see below) Do I (linked to above; other reasons?) want to be published; in what format? Is(n’t) a blog enough?(well, one mainly defunct, in decay, “Decayetude https://decayetude.wordpress.com/ and the hopeful one more active:THIS one!) These … Continue reading →

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3 INTERTWINED ROOTS. PART 3. OPEN READING/OPEN WRITING/OPEN SPACES. BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on April 13, 2018 by decayetude

With thanks to Dr. Christopher Madden for being the catalyst for this reflection.   I read (perhaps just a few lines/ a paragraph) I think: “That needs a personal construct” I write: my OWN take on what I have read; … Continue reading →

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