childhood trauma
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Me and Bing: Running Naked in the Snow
Just 5 minutes to read – but the usual mature content warnings apply! Now that we’ve had our first couple of winter snows in Santa Fe – and non-trivial drops they were: 7 inches to start – I’m reminded of what may have been my first sexual kink: going outside naked in the snow. Rather Continue reading
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The Migraine Trilogy, Part III: A Paper, A Frog, and A Racket
Rated WP-MA: mature language, childish language, children (real and imaginary) in danger, an offensive (yet cute) image The Paper First time I visited Santa Fe was when I was a struggling grad student in Anthropology, a few years before I began to recover the memories of what happened to me as a child. So, that Continue reading
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Renfield, or “I’ll hurt everyone you care about”
As you know, if you’ve read a review of or seen the trailer for Renfield, the movie’s amusing and basically satisfying twist on the Dracula lore is to put the focus on the co-dependent relationship between the vampire and his servant, Renfield. And though we’ve had our share of co-dependent relationships down the years, the Continue reading
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Masturbation and Truth
Warning: contains references to child sexual abuse. We mentioned in the introductory post that we’re blogging mostly because we are writing a book and are informed by all of the best sources that we need a platform to make the book more saleable, and thus more appealing to publishers. This blog is part of our Continue reading
About Me
Michael A. Leavy is a neuroqueer author, anarchist, retired educator, dabbler in magic, onetime actor, Tarot reader…
If you haven’t read the introductory blog you might wonder about our use, now and again, of the 1st person plural pronoun. Though there is only one Michael at the keyboard, there are, as you can gather from the content of some of the posts, multiple active occupants in our psyche, so the plural pronoun is often preferred. There are many occasions, though, on which, for any number of reasons, the singular seems more apt, so it appears regularly as well.
The Anarchic* Psyche of Michael A Leavy 