THROW-BACK THURSDAY: KOLKATA 1956

My family when we lived in Kolkata during my infancy/toddler years: L-R, Nilmoni (my ayah), Craig (my older brother, at that point a pedophile-in-training), my mother Mary Jo Atkins Barnett, and me in her arms. Photograph taken by my father, Harold Barnett.

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LOLCATS WEEKLY ROUND-UP FOR 8 JULY 2014

Here's the weekly best of what I've gleaned from I Can Has Cheezburger efforts. There are some really creative folks out there.

 

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LOLCATS WEEKLY ROUND-UP 1 JULY 2014

Here's the weekly best of what I've gleaned from I Can Has Cheezburger efforts. There are some really creative folks out there.

 

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THROW-BACK THURSDAY: AT MAMA'S GRAVE WITH MY TRIBE, NOVEMBER 1985

L-R: Cameron Hubbe, Maggie Jochild, Sarah Hubbe, Holly Wilder, at Rose Hill Cemetery in Denton, Texas

In November 1985 I drove across country from SF to Texas and back with my then-lover, her sister, and my best friend. We visited places where I had lived, my lover's grandparents had lived, a gay male college friend in Phoenix, and eventually my mother's grave. I became swamped by memories and ossified painful emotion, and was horrible to be around by the end of the journey. A long expedition which raked open a lot more than it resolved.

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THROW-BACK THURSDAY: 5 AUGUST 1985, DOLORES PARK, SF

Throw-Back Thursday: Me and my best friend Holly at a birthday picnic for me, 5 August 1985, in Dolores Park, SF. No, we are not kissing. Photo taken by my lover at the time.

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LOLCATS WEEKLY ROUND-UP FOR 17 JUNE 2014

Here's the weekly best of what I've gleaned from I Can Has Cheezburger efforts. There are some really creative folks out there.

 

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: TODDLERHOOD IN KOLKATA, 1957-58

This is me playing domestic in our big living room in Kolkata, India. It's so early I haven't gotten dressed yet. 

I don't remember the broom or matching mop. The toys I really longed for were the boy's things given to my older brother: a Carroms game, erector set, cap guns. Even more, I longed for thick black socks instead of the wispy white ones I had to wear, and sturdy shorts and T-shirts instead of petticoats and sunsuits. I want to move without limitation and no worries about staining or tearing my attire.

 I wanted boys' freedom, not the sex itself -- which even then I was smart enough to know had NOTHING to do with the rules being handed out.

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