May 17, 2021
My Writing & Editing
I’ll start uploading all my backlog of essays here, for anyone curious. Here’s just an index to begin with.
My Writing
Personal Essays
- Early beginnings… — Youth anti-war activism
- An experience with solidarity activism — Refugee rights activism
- The Personal is Political — Reflections on Mike Mills film Beginners — Relationships / film review
- Everyone has to deal with the absurd… — Political prose
- A Love Letter To Failing Upward — Philosophical prose
Theatre Scripts
- The Vegan Inception of Vaush — Comedy/Ethical dialogue
Social Movement Theory
- On The Far-Left, Effective Activism & Violence — Activism & politics
- Why Ecocentrism Is Essential — Legal human & animal rights, plus environmental protection
- The bizarre case of vegan Neo-Nazis & deprogramming vegans who glorify violence — Political violence
- Debate On The Definition of Veganism — Veganism & environmentalism
- Response Video to ‘Veganism vs. Animal Liberation’ — Veganism & environmentalism
- Common Allies — Guide, social justice, veganism, environmentalism
- Contentious Allies — Guide, conservativism & veganism
- Freeganism — Guide, reuse movement
- Companion Animal Care — Guide, rescue movement
- Free Animal Postings — Guide, rescue movement
- Racism in Veganism — Guide, anti-racism
Philosophy
- My Virtue-Existentialist Ethics — Applied ethics
- How to simply explain what veganism is and argue for it — Dialogue guide
- How To Advocate To Pro-Vegan Leftists (Mock Vaush Debate) — Debate notes
- The Vaush Debate That Never Was — Debate notes
Guides
My Editing
Captain Hotknives Sleeve Notes Zine
I created an album of for me what are Chris’s (Captain Hotknives) greatest hits, through finding what I think are the best quality versions out there of 13 well loved comedy songs, plus mixing and matching a few different versions together.
As well I edited together 3 volumes of folk songs, instrumentals & bonus tracks.
Finally I copyed the automatic transcripts, cleaned them up into lyrics pages and I’m working on building it into an illustrated sleeve notes zine which will contain lyrics, descriptions & more.
Unfinished Autobiography of Aileen Wuornos
A letter correspondence over many years between Aileen and her best friend from childhood Dawn was collated into a book, in the order the letters were sent.
Mixed in to the letters were long essays about her life on the road which she asked Dawn to keep safe encase she ever wrote enough that she could start knocking it into an autobiography.
As I was reading it, I found her experiences of the time she lived through so fascinating that I wanted to save each one and see it in perspective to her other memories in the timeline of her life.
So that’s what I’ve done here. And if it’s useful in the future to anyone’s creative pursuits, like writing non-fiction plays or graphic novels, or reflections on her life, or the 70s, or even fictional stories with characters based on Aileen, then all the better.
