HeyJaredQueering Reality
Queering Reality is a series for exploring and reshaping the world through a queer lens by Elizabeth Earley, a queer writer, scientist, and ex-christian with magical thinking who is also a mom and Board President at Jaded Ibis Press.
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On Paying Attention (opens the original)
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It’s been nearly three months since I interviewed Heb Murphy, musician, comedian/content creator, and songwriter who posts as @hebontheweb. And why am I just now sitting down to write my essay inspired by our conversation? In short, I’ve been blocked. The words don’t want to come out. And when I have word constipation, I try not to fight it or get too upset by it. Instead, I indulge in silence.This week, I traveled to Sedona, a place I return to often and which has an energy that corrects the kn
Queering Reality with Heb Murphy (@hebontheweb) (opens the original)
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What happens when you stop trying to make the art you think you’re supposed to make and start paying attention to what actually wants to come out?In this episode of Queering Reality, I talk with musician, songwriter, comedian, and internet delight Heb Murphy (@hebontheweb) about unlearning the rules we’ve inherited: about gender, conflict, creativity, success, and even what makes something worthy of being called art. Heb tells me how the pressure to become a “real” musician eventually made it al
The Wrinkles in a Linear Story (opens the original)
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[I]Kill your darlings, our mentors say. Art requires a cold, calculating, surgical precision. Use the scalpel. Cut away flesh if it doesn’t serve the beauty of the body as a whole. Don’t make your words and images too precious, they tell us. Even though they have emerged from the lungs behind my rig cage and the brain inside my skull.So I assert the contrary: protect your most precious creations. Or rather, trust the protection that naturally exists around them. They are protected by barriers di
Queering Reality with Ibram X. Kendi (opens the original)
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In this episode of Queering Reality, I sit down with bestselling author, historian, and public intellectual Dr. Ibram X. Kendi to explore how ideas — not just policies or institutions — shape the world we live in. Drawing from his powerful new book Chain of Ideas, we discuss how narratives rooted in fear spread through communities, why authoritarian movements rely on emotion over evidence, and how racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry are connected through larger systems of powe
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