It grew up – or did it?
The funniest thing about this is that it’s not parody.
Robin Gow is a poet, educator, and witch. It grew up in rural Pennsylvania and lives with his queer family on unceded Lenape land also called Allentown Pennsylvania.
Quite the medley of deliberate annoyingness in 28 words. There’s the “it”, the instant switch to “his”, the “queer family”, and the obligatory pious smug pretense of giving a shit about forcibly removed native people.
Awarded the Jerry Cain and Scott James Creative Writing Fellow, Gow earned faer MFA in Creative Writing from Adelphi University where fae also taught as a professor of English.
What is even the point? Other than extra added attention?
Fae is a managing editor The Nasiona. He also formerly worked as the assistant editor at large at Doubleback Books, served for four years as the production editor of the Lantern literary magazine, and three years as the Social Media Coordinator for Oyster River Pages. It has also worked to help produce several zines and taught creative writing workshops in a variety of community spaces, including online forms.
He is an autistic bisexual genderqueer person passionate about queer and disability justice.
Are we sure? I think fae/it/she is much more passionate about faeself than about any kind of justice. People who really are passionate about justice don’t waste time and alienate potential comrades by talking a lot of pretentious nonsense about self self self.
What is it with kids today that they can’t manage to see how revoltingly self-obsessed they either are or present themselves as being? It’s not as if it’s subtle.
Over the last five years, Robin has trained over 3,000 people on LGBTQIA2+ Inclusion and Equity and Neurodiversity/Disability Justice topics.
Over 3k people now fluent in bullshit; awesome.
And in conclusion:
Robin prefers the pronouns it, fae, and he but all pronouns except for “she/her” are alright.
She/her being the only correct one.
“She/her being the only correct one”
But she has five-o’clock shadow.
Maybe that’s the “T” speaking.
Well, that definitely makes me want to read sdf;ldda’s poetry….
Good. An English professor who doesn’t know how pronouns work. Not a problem at all…no, not a bit.
Yay Allentown! Oh wait. Well if I ever encounter it I will surely queery* it on why it continues to rape said unceded land daily without concern.
*sorry
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the “witch” part. From another page on the website:
Now, there are certainly some people out there who would earnestly write stuff like this. (I have a whole shelf’s worth of books written by tarot readers, mystics, and the like.) But are we sure this isn’t a parody of some sort? It just seems like too much. On the other hand, perhaps people who believe in gender-souls are more likely to also hold other kooky beliefs.