There are many Christian Fundamenetalists who also happen to be homosexual, if not a member of the LGBTQ community. My late partner, Dr. Morris Taylor knows first hand the pain and suffering these people go through. He was a leader in the Seventh Day Adventist community. Below is the text of an address Dr. Taylor gave…
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White Nausea
Related links: Jeffrey Robinson on White Supremacy White Fragility page Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide New York Review of Books Review of Ostler’s Surviving Genocide Washington Post’s review of White Fragility State of Indiana’s website info on Native Americans Native Languages site info on Indiana In the well-meaning and surprisingly banal book, White Fragility by Robin…
Taking the Fast RIDE: Designing While Being Agile
A new year and a new post in my less than active blog, here is an article that originally appeared in interactions magazine. While many design methods are practiced “in the wild,” the most prevalent one appears to be “Design first and ask questions later”—also known as “Throw it over the wall and see if…
Black Lives Matter: the new equality
George Floyd will not have lived in vane. He is igniting a crucial moment in American history. Now is the time to rise to the situation. COVID Shut down, shelter in place, death counts, these were the top of mind concerns of the country. The news was an endless drone of the same pandemic. Even…
Consent and Master/slave relationships
This article covers the definition of consent and how consent is handled in Master/slave (M/s) relationships. Specifically, this article discusses consent in the context of a relationship not a single act (footnote, we will include a link to the consent in kink acts when it becomes available until then please see the NCSF site for…
Depression in the Age of Trump
It is very hard to take that almost 50% of this country supports a blatantly incompetent president. No one has done more damage to America’s greatness and its reputation. Yet an alarming number of people continue to cheer him on. We’ve become the laughing stock of the foreign press. We are destroying our precious country’s…
The MAGA Suicides, the “Rise” of Racism and the coronavirus
I have been working diligently on preparing for the release of my upcoming Volume II of the Goldberg Variations. I apologize for the delay, but one of the minor sources of the delay is a writers block because I can’t seem to get something off my mind unless I write this post. As we know…
Sample Chapter Volume 1
For the prospective reader I thought it would be helpful to post a sample chapter. You can read the text below, or click here to hear me read it to you. Chapter 1: Jamie Goldberg Detroit, Michigan, Spring 1970 “I am sorry, Mrs. Goldberg, it is against the school rules.” Mrs. Bradford’s temples were pulsating.…
On Suicidal Thoughts
I have had to struggle with suicidal thoughts these past years. I am surviving with them, coping with them. And maybe if i share some of my experience it can help you too? As many know my husband/Master of almost 10 years died. I suffered a depression, so I am no stranger to suicidal thoughts.…
The Era of Incompetence: Black Lives Matter, but does the United States Government?
Since 2016, we’ve entered the Era of incompetence, or if you like, the Counter-Enlightenment (or if you prefer the Un-enlightentment or the Anti-Enlightenment). Science, Factual Knowledge, Rationality have been replaced by “Saying makes it so” neo-Medieval Do It Yourself Reality culture. Scientific facts, reality, reason, things we had taken for granted have been blatantly and…