Category Archives: intersectionality

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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IN AN UNKNOWN REGION. WHERE NOW?AN OPINION PIECE.BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on May 14, 2020 by decayetude

This calls for bulletpoints:P :- 1.Is it CHAOS THEORY (Cummings)? 2.Or just(unintentional, cock-up variety of)chaos 3.Is it HERD IMMUNITY?(un-proved and poured doubt on by reputable scientists) 4.Is it “harvesting”?  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/08/care-home-residents-harvested-left-to-die-uk-government-herd-immunity (A beyond-disturbing read….) 5. A lethal(literally) combination of 1-4 above? … 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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LOVEY-DOVEY.A RAINBOW MOSAIC OF PEACE BIRDS, LIVERPOOL PRIDE(AT TATE EXCHANGE), JULY 2018. CAPTURES AND CAPTIONS.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on July 22, 2018 by decayetude

{Thanks to Joan Burnett, of Liverpool Pride, for allowing me to use these images on this blog:)} Liverpool Pride is OUT-facing; it foregrounds lgbt+ people, saying that we are ALL human, we (should) all want peace, and lets work and … Continue reading →

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TREE: AN EXTENDED METAPHOR.FOR MERSEYSIDE LGBT CREATIVE WRITING GROUP.MARCH 2018

Posted on March 19, 2018 by decayetude

Thought association….. Tree of life Staff of life Penis……. ________________________________________________________________________   Climb the shakey tree of the free market economy/capitalism? A tree which is STUNTED GNARLED, with WHORLS of mass incompetence and greed; which aspires upwards, but is constantly battered … Continue reading →

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STRAIGHT (HERMENEUTICS) AND BEYOND. (SOME OF THIS IS IRONY).BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on February 7, 2018 by decayetude

{Catalyst: “Heterosexuality” (ed Hanscombe and Humphries, GMP, 1987).} Imagine the following world: the dominant, prevalent sexual orientation was lesbian, gay and bisexual NON lgb people had to occlude their orientation because it was illegal/discriminated against/socially frowned upon. Straight people had to … Continue reading →

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HAPPINESS.THE OTHER BOOKSHOP:TANGENTS AND EXPLORATIONS. BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on November 12, 2017 by decayetude

It is Sunday time; it is liminal time. The man in the coffee-tasting emporium ( a rather-aporically-pleasant bastion of {bourgeois}capitalism):- he liked Kafka:) He REALLY liked Kakka; he really did. A serendipity, on the ramparts of the bastion. He was … Continue reading →

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I MEET MY HERO, JEREMY CORBYN(EXPANDED VERSION).I AM HAPPY(YET SAD) BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on February 12, 2017 by decayetude

And, so it seemed I emerged from a dark tunnel of 2 months’ anxiety into LIGHT. The “Village Hall” was, actually, an old gymnasium, redolent of a GDR-style(now) redundant building, with its concrete and steel; wholly functional, with no decoration. Somewhat … Continue reading →

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THE NIGHT I MET THE (RIGHT HONOURABLE) JEREMY CORBYN. STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on February 5, 2017 by decayetude

Wow, I met him,at last, despite my illnesses and limitations, I MET him; his minder got me in the queue for a selfie; and I , briefly, explained my lgbt activist history and wished him luck with his arduous task (against the … Continue reading →

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TOWARDS UTOPIA???????????????LINKS:BIENNIAL(S), BREXIT, CORBYN; or NON-LINKS AND FEAR/OTHERING.A GRUESOME PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on July 14, 2016 by decayetude

“The sadness inspired by failing restaurants”. “The smell of mildew in movie theaters” (both from Eugenides, “Middlesex”, 2002) Lewis’s little balcony restaurant(dying gradually, now 6 years gone).https://decayetude.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/img_13071.jpg  .The ABC Cinema, Lime Street:re-used for a spectral exhibition in a previous biennial; and … Continue reading →

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