Doreen Michele

We bitch when white men write only about white male culture as that is exclusionary.

I learned to read before I started kindergarten and I was in gifted programs of some type starting as early as first or second grade.

I currently have over three dozen topical blogs.

At age twenty, it finally came out that I had gotten secretly married the year before and my husband had finally joined the military like he said he would and he would be starting basic training shortly.

Uh, oh.

I would like to do a comic.

I was probably eighteen years old.

All y'all is a Southern expression inclusive of myriad groups of peoples.

My maiden name is Irish in origin and I realized in recent months at the age of sixty that my Irish heritage was in some sense treated more secretly than my Cherokee heritage.

Grandfathered in is a phrase from the ugly post-Civil War Jim Crow era in the Deep South that refers to efforts to legally protect the rights of White people while denying newly freed Blacks voting rights.

I have achieved my lifelong dream of being FREE to open my big fat mouth in public and speak my mind as I see fit without consequence though I'm sometimes perceived as rude, crude and socially unacceptable and I'm generally too truthful to be good.

Michael Stipe, lead singer for R.E.M., has said the song is not about religion.

I wrote a post called Dagu Dagu Dagu.

Social encounter moments ago: "Where are your brothers?"

As noted elsewhere, Arnold Schwarzenegger is kind of an animus figure for me.

I recently tripped across this video: Elektra's stilleto bootcamp The character's name is Elektra Abundance or Elektra Wintour from a TV series called Pose that I had not previously heard of.

I don't even participate anymore nor hang there.

If you click into a link to my Bio from a footer note saying "Website by Doreen Michele." that's a personal blog entirely by me.

Exactly like the chick on the stand in the movie Liar, Liar, I'm a brunette.

My interest is in community development work or fostering civilization and I never know how to explain that in a nutshell.

Traditional Chinese soap https://youtu.be/O-9CuiaxLGQ?

What is a weir https://youtu.be/YkR79oDAgOg?

No wheels, no kiln Making primitive pottery in the city How to center clay Almost anywhere kiln How to make clay at home

I like running my big fat mouth via keyboard and internet.

The existence of trans people speaks directly to the defects in heteronormative culture.