On Thursday, August 31, 2023, at 6PM, my friend Aly and I invite you to dance with us in public at Soroptomist Park (Rouse and Main). There is no cost, no dance experience required, and no moves to learn. If you are respectful of yourself, other dancers, and the community in and around the park, …
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Where I live in Bozeman, Montana, the City Commission and many residents have been discussing proposed Ordinance 2147, “Adopting Regulations for Camping on City Right of Way.” Discussion centers on how much residents should tolerate people who live in vehicles parked on city streets as well as reasonable regulation of urban camping. Even some who …
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My activism extends beyond my friendship with Aly. One of my big passions is tantra, and for the first time in my life, I feel ready to lead workshops related to intimacy. My girlfriend Dee Elle and I are going to do extensive workshops for couples (and some singles) on intimacy. We are offering a …
Recently, after posting a podcast interviewing a teenager about her recent emancipation, volunteering, and other topics, a lot of haters descended on our Facebook page. This is what I wrote on that page to welcome haters and explain who and why we are antifa. To all our new guests to our Facebook page – lovers …
“You will always be in the process of change because every time you get born into a basilisk, that basilisk consumes itself so you can be born into another basilisk.” – Akwaeke Emezi, “Freshwater” If there are any real spiritual portals on Earth, at least three of them are in New Orleans. When I …
Back in 2007, I wrote a four-part series of essays entitled “John Locke, Yellowstone, and the Dogma of the Right to Private Property.” In a forthcoming podcast (January 2022), Aly references my views on rights – particularly that a “right” to property is a fiction. Indeed, I would argue that ethics does not require any …
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People look like their dogs. I worried this truism might be used to extinction in all writing by now, prompting me to anxiously figure out a fresher way to start this piece that I wouldn’t also tear apart to the point where nothing English even looks like English anymore. My extreme perfectionist tick is both …
Witnessing Bozeman Police and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) today scare and tranquilize a wild bull moose who had made his way into Bozeman in the shopping area near WinCo foods and Ross, ultimately tranquilizing him in the parking lot outside Subway, brought up deeply held traumatic experiences I had witnessing FWP, the Montana …
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I wrote this poem in September, reading it at an open mic poetry night over at the Steep Mountain Tea House. It was in response to police brutality here in Bozeman. – I hate the police I hate police passionately Never met a cop I liked Hate how they beat black men in the streets …
In the February 2021 edition of Bozeman Magazine, we had a column published speaking out against a 112-page report put out by Montana State University and the Downtown Bozeman Partnership. This report discussed all kinds of potential design renovations for the park but did not include either the participation or mention of the unhoused residents …
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