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Welcome to Our New Home

Hi there and welcome! This is Cyborg Workshop, the new blog to succeed Shaping Clay as my main creative outlet. This one is going to work a little differently, though. As much fun as it was, Shaping Clay was a creative blog put together by a writer who was moving toward professionalism. It had a lot to say and I am proud of it, but it wasn’t really set up from the beginning to work as a professional tool. That’s why it started to fall apart a bit once my audience really took off and my duties...

Your Kink is Not My Kink, and I Am Not Okay

It probably shouldn't surprise any of my regular readers, and probably won't surprise the family members that occasionally troll this blog in an attempt to decipher some sort of theory of my trauma that explains how we got here without assuming responsibility for their role in it, but I'm into kinky shit. Specifically, I'm what they call a, what is it the kids are saying now?

A demiromantic, pansexual masochist trans slut. Or as I like to think of it, an Alpha Pain Slut. And I am a system, or...

The Day (#TDOR 2016)

I am still alive, and finally they call me Athena,Quicksilver’s been missing but I’m finally being seen, aFast, somewhat vicious femme devil accomplishing aRevival scene from within a dream, recovering fromInvisibility till other people finally see for every one of meThey have a relationship with, there’s a dozen I killed,Because suicides die every day until they stop,And I sat ingesting Hesse and testosterone until I popped,And now I and going to keep singing remembrance songsUntil I drop.
So...

On Walking Away...

This last week has seen a number of us walk away from people in our communities, and in some cases from whole communities. The election seems like it was the instigating factor, but in reality, for those of us who did the walking it was just a final straw, the flushing of a last chance we had been tenuously holding out to people who hurt us. It's not surprising so many of us chose to walk out. What is surprising is that when I look around, the people who have the most guilt and recrimination...

It's time to accept you can end them

Apparently we need round two
because I didn't manage to get through to youwhen I took to lecturing about the way you need to fight.Maybe now it will sink in, since election nightmade sure your rights had been taken by other whites,but the first battle is to accept the fact:you were never safe and always under attack.
It's time to accept that they hate you,because when I told you it in the beginning you said you did,but then you still let yourself call the enemy friend,and now you are reaping wh...

Your Meltdowns Aren't Going Away

In the autistic community, we spend a lot of time talking about self-care and self-acceptance, and about how the two are impossible to separate from one another. We acknowledge our need to embrace who we are, and the majority of our work writing and advocating and pushing for change is based around the idea that what we are is a natural part of human diversity, an expression of the way it is to be a person.

At the same time, though, our self-care posts become frantic about the nature and conse...

Civil War (Spoon Knife 2 Excerpt)

Editor's Note: It took me the entire month of August to put together my contributions for The Spoon Knife Anthology 2: Test Chamber, and the cognitive strain due to the combination of my health and my problems working with some of my press partners stressed me to the point where instead of writing with the aid of music, I could only write without music. While I was stuck in that mode, I wrote this poem. It was the first language available to me to express my feelings and intentions regarding...

That One Time I Had to Strike Against the IWW (#ASDay 2016)

So last year I didn't get the chance to do one of these posts properly. I was too swamped, between teaching 21 credits, doing freelance copywriting, and pushing myself to publish 6 books I was editorially responsible for in 6 months, two of which I wrote. I'd already maxed out my labor investment in Autonomous Press, and I was just hauling ass to try to get the titles off the ground so they could be marketed and soled. So that we could get profitable and get paid.

I essentially silenced my own...

Civil War

It’s been a year since I stepped into this Vision,
Scarlet Witching with twitchy fingers fishing,
slipping into you and splitting with syllables strung to each other
until you pull a thread and they split your target like old leather.
What stepped out was just one Witch with just one wish,
but one Witch wishing her plural presence had survived augmenting
is enough to shape the fate of a team that’s started breaking.

You didn’t listen or take into account the Vision
was just another plan, and...