I was angry. I was rageful. I wanted to scream and yell and destroy. I took than anger and channeled it into this. For The Fight by Riyv Ba'Ir
Archive for the ‘bodies’ Category
Riyv Ba’Ir “For The Fight”
March 26, 2013
we are not silent
March 26, 2013
we are not silent by Various Artists My first appearance on a compilation, and my second release under the name Riyv Ba’Ir.
Stuck in Trafficking
January 31, 2013
For some time now I’ve been suspicious of the anti-trafficking movement, and especially that segment of it that’s specifically Christian. It’s long struck me as sensationalist, focusing on sex work to the exclusion of other forms of forced labor (Hi there, Nike and the US Agriculture industry!), as well as overly broad. It seemed there [...]
Gender’s not just between the ears, and sex isn’t just between the legs
January 2, 2013
Originally intended to dispute the biology-is-destiny formulation, the distinction between sex and gender serves the argument that whatever biological intractability sex appears to have, gender is culturally constructed: hence, gender is neither the causal result of sex nor as seemingly fixed as sex. The unity of the subject is thus already potentially contested by the [...]
Constructed from a mutable stuff
December 8, 2012
There is an element of irreducible indeterminacy and instability built right into creation, so that creation is going to be continually exposed to re-creation. What God has formed is able both to come unformed, to break down or come unstrung – that is the bad news, the downside of the risk – but by the [...]