Naming your own masculine
If you can name your own masculine, you get to keep your creative potential.
stories
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On THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) and sugar
In my great-grandmother's room, there was usually a lot of candy. Fiddle Faddle, Bit O' Honey, peppermint LifeSavers, sugar-coated gumdrops, Circus Peanuts. As a child, I ate HoHos from the bottom cabinet in the kitchen. I grew up in a strict evangelical environment. My grandmother had a...
Care Bears, Twinsen's Odyssey, and the rat under the house
How I used stories and bodywork to solve the crime of the century
THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE is unique among Disney films
The toymaker father is the "good" one, the one Olivia prefers to identify as her father, but in this story, he's the aspect that's gone missing.
The Man Behind the Curtain and the Nome King
living things > stone
Why I think GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES belongs in the fantasy genre
When I looked at this story, it changed my understanding of the nature of fiction and it changed my values around the writing of fiction and fantasy.
Looking for the inner King
Positive examples that have helped me ferret out a sense of my own masculine.
What I learned about Rhinemaidens (and why I didn't want to be one)
neither a dwarf nor a Rhinemaiden be
On Hair
Making connections between stories and the body.