February 23 2025
I adore my poetry friends! Friday night was Sexy Grown Folks poetry with improv jazz to accompany.
Sexy Grown Folks Poetry and Jazz 2025
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Notes: The Red List and Goblins with Eugenics and Ugly Laws
February 17 2025
Treatment for the script is finished! Just need to add a synopsis. It’s kind of wild doing something that you’ve never done before, with feeling along the way that you have no freaking clue what you’re doing. With guidance from the professor, making it up as I go along, pulling from life happenings. We have some uncanny, weird shit happening currently.
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February 19 2025
Reading for my Women in Literature class. Goblin Market is one wild poem. 
The combination of classes I’m taking this semester fit together perfectly. It makes my brain happy when I can combine material from one class to the other.
Creative Writing
Craft & Forms of Creative Writing (Horror)
Screenwriting
Women in Literature
Disability Ethics
Also, I’m convinced this country has collectively gotten into a Time Machine and gone back to the 30s. Half the country has lost their damn fucking minds, with no empathy to be found, dragging the rest of us with them. Wish there was a way to add critical thinking skills to the water or better yet, to Coke and Pepsi products. And maybe show a documentary about eugenics and “Ugly Laws” inside their eyelids.
Notes: The Red List With Persuasion While Dying
February 16 2025
The Treatment for the script I’m writing is due on the 19th. Damn! This is a tentative title for the series. I just like having graphics to accompany my writings.
My Monday Night Poetry friends will love this as Shim’s Tavern and MNP plays a huge role in the series. In fact, that’s where most of the setting will be.
Yesterday I had to submit my answers to these questions for the Treatment:
* Who is the protagonist? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?
* What is the inciting incident in your show/movie? How does it disrupt the protagonist’s daily world?
* What does your protagonist want?
* How is your protagonist introduced? What is the first thing that we see them doing? What is the first thing they say?
* Where is your script set? Be as specific as possible? Is your protagonist an outsider or an insider?
The professor gave me encouraging and positive feedback. Onward! I’ve got to figure out my antagonist.
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Currently reading for my Women in Literature class.
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Reading for my craft and forms of creative writing class at UNR. Loving this one!
Notes: Early Birthday Gifts and Eugenics
February 15 2025
Surprise gifts are THE BEST!! Thank you @eralomusic for the early birthday gifts! 
I appreciate you, and am cheering you on from Reno. 
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I’ll be sharing snippets of my UNR classes during the semester.
This is from my Disability Ethics class. We read the essay, “The Nazis’ First Victims Were the Disabled”.
Quote from the essay, “Too often the lives of those of us who live with disabilities are not valued, and feared.”
We recently watched the video “War on the Weak: Eugenics in America” the role of the US and eugenics in Nazi Germany was discussed.
These are my raw notes from watching the video:
The president was behind it. Liberals behind it. Conservatives behind it. Catholic Church behind it. Degeneracy an inheritable trait. ??? Eugenics was because America didn’t want to make social changes. There was an American Breeders Association?? Damn! Carnegie Institution helped fund the Eugenics Record Office. It was in place for 34 years! Administered eugenics laws nationwide, including immigration and marriage restrictions, and forced sterilization of criminals, race segregation, and other undesirables. And integrated it into popular culture, made race hygiene household words. Popular 20’s literature often mentioned eugenics. The fairs gave awards for the fittest families, purest pedigrees. Gross!
Euthanasia became a part of the movement internationally, but not so much here in America. In 1907 in Indiana was the first jurisdiction to force sterilization of citizens it deemed unfit. Connecticut followed. By 1924, 3000 socially inadequate people had been sterilized. Feeble minded and sexual promiscuity were reasons to sterilize. Based on flimsy evidence. “Three generations of imbecile are enough” Oliver Wendell Holmes (Buck v Bell – and it has not been overruled). HAS NOT BEEN OVERRULED
Nazi Germany borrowed eugenics from America and upped it. German scientists had affinity for US eugenics laws. Germany modeled their eugenics after Americas. This was a prelude to the holocaust. Mentally ill of Germany were first to be exterminated.
This was my response on the quiz regarding our reading and the video:
I did not know that Nazi Germany borrowed the idea from America. I am utterly disgusted. Even more so in our current political climate. I find myself moving through this material wondering what the heck is going on. We are looping back to vile things that should have been left behind.Eugenics came to be because America did not want to invest in social programs (sounding eerily like our current climate). It was supported by both political parties as a way to only allow people with certain characteristics to procreate. It also included forced sterilization of criminals and undesirables; which included women who were deemed feeble minded and promiscuousm (by flimsy evidence).
Monday Night Poetry – Empathy Wrapped in Nonjudgment
February 14 2025
Monday Night Poetry. These people, this space. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have y’all in my life. People have no fucking idea what is happening in the lives of those around them. Empathy wrapped in non-judgment is a lost, elusive emotion in our world. However, you will find it in places like this. Find a space like this in your community. It is vital, life saving even.
Notes: Wild Charges and First Substack Subscriber
February 8 2025
January was wild. $21,000 worth of wild. One additional information statement to follow. **Note: I do not owe this much. This is the amount billed to insurance.**
I have my first paid subscriber!!! Thank you to Heather!!! 
99 to go! 
2025 Chromosome 18 Conference – Niagara Falls – Coming Soon
(Team TLC – 2013 C18 Conference in Savannah, Georgia)
So here’s some *fun* news. Team TLC will not have access to the two funding sources we have accessed in the past to be able to attend the yearly C18 Family Conference. Attending the conference typically cost between $3k-$5k. It’s at Niagara Falls this summer so airfare is going to be crazy.
I’ve started a substack account. It’s free to subscribe, or you can pledge an amount. I’ll be sharing poetry, UNR updates, my other writings, and other stuff. I don’t post on here as much.
Lillian will have some ideas, too. Maybe the on demand poetry she did a few years ago??
Thanks to everyone who has supported and assisted Team TLC throughout the years. (Conference photo from 2013 and Thanksgiving 2024)
(Team TLC – November 2024)
Monday Night Poetry – My Heart
February 3 2025
My heart. Monday Night Poetry. Thank you for being the ones I can share the shit of life with. With no judging and no discomfort on your part. Do y’all know how rare that is?? I love y’all. 
(photos by @sidewayseightprojects and @isis.atkins)
Notes: Pre-Surgery Labs Complete and Women in Literature
February 7 2025
Pre-surgery labs and EKG done. Right heart catheter happening next Wednesday to confirm, or not, what the heck is happening with my body. It’s trying to kill me lately. On a different note, check out the cool book my 19 year old, Gigi, picked up.
I’m enjoying this Women in Literature class. Roxana is our first of 8 books. It’s an intense class, 400 level, and a capstone class. Whew! Just turned in my first annotation.
Happy New Year 2025
December 31 2024
Here’s to me, myself and I. 
And to my beautiful Team TLC.
