A Response To “Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?”
by: Jason Wyman I recently read Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? edited by Mattilda Berstein Sycamore and published by AK Press. My husband got the book for me at the Anarchists’… Read More
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Exploring the Idea of Healer: Finding My Destiny
by: Jason Wyman Jason. My name means “healer” or “he that cures”. It is a name that I have tried many times to deny, wishing instead it meant educator or writer or some… Read More
Siddartha and I: My Patient Reading of 152 Pages
by: Jason Wyman “I can think, I can wait, I can fast,” [said Siddhartha]. “…It is of great value, sir. If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing… Read More
Releasing Freak Outs: How to Find Peace in Stress
by: Jason Wyman “No, sir, the fact of the matter is your one week of work qualified you for a new unemployment claim, which invalidated your extension. We reassess each extension every three… Read More
Poetry: A Warming Stillness
by: Jason Wyman They posed for pictures grins wide and kisses puckered with their dying grandmother who looked in her nineties but was in her sixties. The cancer wilted her hair and sunk… Read More
No Place to Call Home: A Commitment to Diversity
by: Jason Wyman I love moving between communities and calling none my home. Maybe this has something to do with my coming out. When I came out on my Catholic university campus, I… Read More
Fiction: The Tale of Amar
by: Jason Wyman Once there was an old, gray Mutt with a large bushy white mustache and black feet named Amar. Amar was floating on a boat made of reeds on a sea… Read More
“Piss Trigger”: My History with Urine
by: Jason Wyman I worked in a group home for severely emotionally disturbed youth ages 5 to 13. I also lived there. It was a how I moved to San Francisco: an… Read More
When I Came Out to My Students: A Response to “Maybe This Time”
by: Jason Wyman I came out at 18 while I was in the seminary to be a priest. It wasn’t the most supportive place to come out. It was one of the most… Read More
Saving San Francisco: Finding Hope in Community
by: Jason Wyman Godzilla attacked, and I was the only one who could stop her. She was terrorizing San Francisco because some Berkeley scientist found and stole a Godzilla egg while studying the… Read More
