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Okay, so. This one very specific thing I wrote, that has a background & context in my life & art, has now repeatedly gone viral *for other people* via screencaps & vaguequotes across at least three major social media platforms.
At this point, yes I do feel sorta weird about it. https://twitter.com/JulianKJarboe/status/952536916590776320">https://twitter.com/JulianKJa...
At this point, yes I do feel sorta weird about it. https://twitter.com/JulianKJarboe/status/952536916590776320">https://twitter.com/JulianKJa...
I& #39;m deeply, deeply moved and honored that it& #39;s resonated the way it has for so many. I genuinely think there& #39;s spiritual longing among the vague overlap of the vague categories of "queer" and "left", as evidenced. I did not arrive at theological thinking easily or comfortably.
The people who comment on it somewhat skeptically or incredulously, usually a variation of "kinda sweet but I& #39;m an atheist cause fuck the Church" or "what so God wants us to suffer???" are, actually, going in the right direction and not far from the feelings that produced it!
I was raised Catholic but at some point was mostly known at church for 1. growling at a priest (sorry Father Jim) and 2. arguing with my Sunday School teacher about the nature of infinity and omniscience (hahaha not sorry). I stopped going as a teenager and it was not a big deal.
Then I got engaged to someone from a devoutly observant Jewish family. If you are not from such a family, I simply need you to understand that me being a gay transsexual seducing their oldest son to a life of decadent sodomy *did not matter* nearly as much as me not being Jewish.
Wedding planning itself was not stressful. I& #39;m an event producer, he& #39;s a project manager, all our friends are caterers, photographers, DJs, etc. None of that was hard for us.
But it did have to be a Jewish wedding! And suddenly everyone was like "
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But it did have to be a Jewish wedding! And suddenly everyone was like "
Meanwhile I was working on a bunch of body horror short stories & cyborg poetry that would become EVERYONE ON THE MOON IS ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL, having a grand old furious time "processing" & "inquiring" about disability, gender, race, fatness, colonialism and the whole to-do.
Here& #39;s the opening stanza of "The Android That Designed Itself", a horny robot poem that some take for ~merely~ a "trans metaphor." Kinda!
This stanza at least comes from my husband & I discussing rhetorical questions in rabbinical argument + rules & lore about golems.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤖" title="Robotergesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Robotergesicht">
This stanza at least comes from my husband & I discussing rhetorical questions in rabbinical argument + rules & lore about golems.
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The terminology of "Good Works" is Catholic, the argument is Jewish, the interfaith adaptability is on purpose, the sentiment is sincere, and *also* the context is me writing sad fucky gay sci fi and trying to use the residual specialness of Sundays to remember to take my T shot.
And now you know! There is a ton of weird God moods in the book as a whole, from "huh, Marian devotion dovetails nicely with mommy issues, maybe I& #39;ll launch myself into space?" to "anything that powerful should be destroyed (& eaten as a delicious snack)." https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51813429-everyone-on-the-moon-is-essential-personnel">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show...
