beauty ritual, yinyang sexuality, ice kills woman, right to video police action, william eglleston, samora pinderhughes
yesterday i was grateful for beauty rituals at beauty ritual salon... thank you karen, gina and joanna!...
today i am looking forward to yoga with maryanne and lunch with holly...
a few things to talk about today...
i had a lovely salon visit with the women at beauty ritual... this is where i have my hair done... karen, the owner, is an amazing woman... i just love her and have the best time having her do my hair... gina, the receptionist and appointment booker is amazing... and joanna is awesome for hair removal and brow shaping and control... i feel i am gradually becoming one of the girls... if i had more money i would go monthly instead of every other month...
i have been thinking about my gender and psychological configuration... gender trash from hell made me aware that there are male-to-female transsexuals who are lesbian... there are also male-to-female transsexuals who are heterosexual... i prefer women and femininity in my daily life interactions... i have told a lesbian friend that i thought i trended to the side of being lesbian in my femininity... and yet... in my sexual fantasizing i find assuming the position of a woman having sex with a man to be the most erotic... except, the man never has distinct features above the waist... even if i try to imagine features above the waist, i can't... i can only imagine a penis and buttocks for my hands to grab onto...
yesterday i had the thought that both the man and the woman in my fantasies are me... i have developed an erotic fantasy that is yinyang... masculine feminine... self-pleasuring and self-completing...
i have written before that most of us need yinyang completion... that is... we all need to participate in the masculine-feminine continuum to achieve wholeness... we all need to invite the sexual presence of the gender opposite to the one we inhabit most of the time... the majority of us achieve this with an opposite sex partner... many of us achieve this through a same sex partner... i have become, in a way, self sufficient erotically and emotionally...
i have a loving partner... i don't think i could survive without a partner to love and be loved by... i also have women friends... these are necessary to me... being self completing in my erotic fantasy life doesn't eliminate the desire for other sexual beings in my life... it does reduce the need... i will probably write more about this as i puzzle it out...
i have to make note of the passing of Renee Nicole Good who was shot by ice agents for no, readily apparent, good reason... descriptions of three separate bystander videos all indicate there was nothing in the situation that required this response from the ICE agent... i haven't watched the videos... i don't really want to... i am, instead, reading accounts of the incident by sources i trust...
This morning, a federal agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good as she was driving away from ICE agents on a residential street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to Minneapolis leaders, Good was a legal observer: a volunteer trained to observe police conduct in case of future legal action.
horribly, the administration is attempting to justify the response of the agent and smear the victim and others present as violent agitators... again, descriptions i have read say there is nothing in the bystander videos that justifies the ice agent response...
i am wondering at what point a deep fake video will be forthcoming from the administration to support their story?... or will they claim the bystander videos are deep fakes?...
interestingly, an article in reason.com starts by suggesting the agents might have been justified in mistaking the woman's intentions...
ICE shoots and kills woman in Minneapolis
Video of the shooting, obtained by the Minnesota Reformer, shows a SUV stopped at an angle in the street as a pickup truck with emergency lights on approaches and stops in front of it. Masked ICE agents exited the truck and immediately ordered the woman to get out. As the officers started to pull on the door handles of the SUV, the woman backed the SUV up and then started to pull away, forcing an ICE officer who had stepped in front of the driver-side bumper out of the way. The officer drew his gun and fired three shots in quick succession into the car. The SUV continued down the street a short distance before crashing.
but then goes on to dispel that suggestion with an eyewitness account...
ICE shoots and kills woman in Minneapolis
Minneapolis Public Radio (MPR) reported that an eyewitness, Emily Heller, saw a car blocking traffic "that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations."Â
Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to "get out of here."
"She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right inâlike, his midriff was on her bumperâand he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times," Heller told MPR.
in that same article another disturbing idea arises...
ICE shoots and kills woman in Minneapolis
DHS considers following, recording, and alerting others to the presence of law enforcement to be illegal activity, despite the fact that every federal circuit court that has considered the issue has firmly upheld the First Amendment right to film and monitor the police in public.
this has been tested multiple times in court... bystanders have the right to witness and record law enforcement actions...
i mourn the loss of another feminine spirit at the hands of toxic masculinity...
a couple of new exhibitions opening have my attention...
David Zwirner is pleased to announce The Last Dyes, an exhibition of new dye-transfer prints by William Eggleston opening at the galleryâs 533 West 19th Street location in New York. Eggleston pioneered the use of dye-transfer printing for art photography in the 1970s, andâas the title suggestsâthese photographs are the final prints ever made of Egglestonâs images using this analog process. The presentation itself constitutes the last major group of photographs ever to be produced using this printing method, making it a unique opportunity to see a number of works by Eggleston in the format in which he originally presented them.
and...
Brilliant Things to Do This January | AnOther
In New York, the composer, filmmaker and artist Samora Pinderhughes will soon present an exhibition of new work, alongside a series of live performances and a public programme developed with community partners. Collaboration and improvisation are key to Pinderhughesâ striking multidisciplinary output, which positions performance as âa communal practice that can facilitate healing in the face of oppression, racism, and incarceration.â The artistâs new film, Real Talk â a particularly pertinent project that asks, âHow do we survive in America? How do we support each other? What if we built a world around community care?â â will screen on a loop during the course of the show.
a few photos from this am...
