Writer of the Patricia Highsmash column. Former editor of Along the Chaparral, Future Earth Magazine & Platte Valley Review. Author of Us Living in Fictional Cosmogonies & There is Nothing Left to Say (On The Invisibles). Guest Presenter at Naropa University, University of California Riverside, and Harbin Institute. Former faculty, Shandong University. Director of short films, including low fruit.
How Dream Nails, the band & album, and Transgender Tapestry, the long-running magazine, came together the other day to save my life, preserve my cool, and remind me we have each other’s backs. #PatriciaHighsmash @yourdreamnails
DetailsSasie Sealy’s Lucky Grandma is not supposed to feature my grandma, but what I saw, when I saw it, was my grandma. And, that has never happened to me before. @LuckyGrandma88
DetailsJennie Gyllblad’s Jenitales anthologies are sexy, inventive & funny for people who want to have a good time! @JennieGyllblad
DetailsCharlotte Salomon, born 1917, was murdered by Nazis at Auschwitz. She made a 400+ page comic about her family, life, and the state of Germany. It has only grown in meaning & significance.
Details#UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies concludes with the historicity of Ludgwig Van Beethoven, narrativity, ethics & community in #BillAndTed. Be excellent to each other. @Winter @BillandTed3 @ed_solomon
DetailsDeath of the Author, separating the artist & art, the responsibility of artists & audience, how Jack Kirby’s Fourth World & #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies can help us find place & pace and enjoy the worlds we have. #PatriciaHighsmash
DetailsArt, kitsch, entertainment & fun. For betterment & guilty pleasure. The good, bad & corrective Jack Kirby’s New Gods, Mr Miracle, Forever People, Fourth World & the value of everything in a comic book. #PatriciaHighsmash #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies
DetailsParliament-Funkadelic, Eddie Hazel @george_clinton, Pedro Bell, Sly Stone @Bootsy_Collins, Chaka Khan, Robert and Ronald Bell, Overton Loyd @JunieMorrison James Brown & the funk sound and ethos! #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies #PatriciaHighsmash
DetailsThe quest, the pilgrimage, the experiential and survivance narrative in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World. Physical comedy, absurdism, satire, sorrow, social realism with Orion, Superman & Darkseid.
DetailsBuoyed by Arthur Schopenhauer, Miyako Maki, Rintaro, Herman Hesse, Franz Schubert, the kairological cyclic cosmogony of Leiji Matsumoto. #CaptainHarlock #Emeraldas #Maetel #GalaxyExpress999 #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies
DetailsJack Kirby explored desire in Mr Miracle, hunger in New Gods, want in Jimmy Olsen. What is it to want? To be consumed with, controlled by, or to escape wants? #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies #PatriciaHighsmash
Details#UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies covers many beloved fictive universes & name creators, but approaching Toni Morrison? Vladimir Nabokov? Mary Lambert? Octavia Butler? Princess Diaries? A Different World? Doc McStuffins? Do our biases guide or only misguide?
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