Watching other people talk about families and Turkey Day in the USA is bringing me back.
I've got a particular set of skills, socially. Often resulting in people questioning their life choices, including inviting me.
As an out gay man in a family that was ..not? super? progressive (or at least nowhere near where they thought they were), I was more than happy to answer questions. Stupid ones. Direct ones.
Look, you don't want to know where that goes, don't ask? I've got annotated images.
I'll be honest. I've got two giant novel length stories banging against the inside of my skull right now. Both want me to spend every waking hour writing them. One is old enough that it's almost terrifyingly complete in outline in my head, the other is less than a month old.
One is fantasy (high fantasy). One is sci fi.
(pokes at idea of actually, you know, writing either)
Maybe stop putting barriers up to the process and just see what happens?
(gasp, faints) Noooo!
;)
You know, reading someone's in progress is interesting. One of the many narratives I've placed in my path so I won't write is I could never show it to anyone I do know who writes because it would be embarrassingly bad unless I created perfection.
Seeing a perfectly good piece of writing -on the way to finished- reminds me that if I'm kind there are people who are professional writers who might not actively be thinking I'm a horrible writer and be laughing when I'm not looking.
So. You know.->
For the lecturing I've done lived experience for being queer and also for having HIV. I've done the history of both (localizing it to Vancouver). I've done talks of the evolution of behaviour labels into identity labels.
And randomly I've worked as IT for the last 25 years for a research organization.
I've... had weird life, y'all. Interesting. But weird.
Still figuring out how curated I want this space to be now that I'm looking at it again. For now I think I'll link a couple of things.
https://canadianscholars.ca/book/critical-clinical-social-work/
I co-authored Chapter 12 of this.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/338136.Summoned_to_Destiny
"Tangled Pages" is mine.
I wrote for the one of the "Invisible" anthologies of essays put together by Jim C Hines.
I lectured for about a decade at UBC and SFU here in Vancouver on a range of subjects.
Annnd we're back on here. Trying to remember how to work all this... It's a Friday and I'm worn out by other things. So I'mma just. Poke half heartedly. At random things. If you get a follow from me today I'm pretty much following people I already followed on Birdsite. Or finally catching up with those on the tumbles.
Normally go by some variation of poztatt, if you're wondering, on social media sites.
Laura Anne Gilman
T. Kingfisher