We Don’t Speak of Injustice for Our Words To Be Understood

“To know a thing isn’t knowing.” This phrase has been tumbling around in my head lately, and led me to write the poem which follows. I’ve been meditating on coming together these days. Not divisiveness, not tearing apart, not othering. Unlike what the popular image may look like, coming together is not a table covered with peace and flowers and happiness. Coming together is not a superficial lie like our History textbook’s illustration of Thanksgiving. It isn’t always pleasant. Coming together is certainly not self-congratulatory or smug that we’ve pulled through and “won the war”. Coming together is not burying the past, but it is daring to really look at it and learn. Coming together is a room in which we must still check ourselves, take responsibility, apologize, invest, grow, and change. Coming together requires curiosity — a courage that few in our current age pledge allegiance to. Curiosity has the power to undo our reactionary ruts. Curiosity doesn’t ask the other to be inherently different. Curiosity’s objective is searching for the individual at this moment in time. Without curiosity I would be much more wounded than I am. Without curiosity my rigidness would win.

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We Don’t Speak of Injustice For Our Words To Be Understood
by Creature/Karin Webb

There is a secret behind the eyes of those who have suffered
Quiet heals into the wounds of survival sometimes
A nod to the interconnectedness of all things
That I have lost, you may gain

Isn’t that the sum total
Of humanity in action
Fortitude from pain
A common willful ignorance from our conquerors, those gifted ones at ease

I catch her distant gaze
Sadness tucked about the eyes
And recognize my own stories
It’s unsettling
I cannot truly know what she keeps locked up inside
Except vaguely, by way of proximity
Familiarity
Reconjuring my own pain

So I listen, in our quiet
For connection
A silent understanding
Teaching me something of her
That might just build a bridge
Which can last

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Play On My Friends,
~ Creature

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The Messiness

“Don’t let my tits stop you from calling me “Sir””

My dudes, life is messy.  This has been a public service announcement.

The only thing we can do to stay circling around our borderlines buoyantly is embrace the messiness. Finding balance is an active state, not an accomplishment. Sometimes life asks you to be there for others until you’re so stressed out you need others in the ways you’ve been holding space. Sometimes it feels as though you don’t exist. Sometimes everything you do is wrong and the paranoia that you’re unloveable comes crashing down all around. Sometimes you need to create the space for yourself that you so desperately want someone else to create on your behalf. Sometimes you need to be left. the. fuck. alone.

It seems like most of the time people are miscommunicating or ignorant of one another’s complicated and distinctly meaningful lives. Stepping on toes. Lashing back. We put our feet directly in our mouths — astounding considering society’s loss of flexibility these days. We look back in shock at what we’ve said/done/thought in the past and flush, hoping those memories are carried only inside our own brains, forgotten by others.

We live in this fucked up computerized place where everything is recorded and there’s no escape from bumbles or mistakes, learning situations, or outright shitty behavior. Growth isn’t pretty. We “other” others immediately upon unearthing disapproved content, rather than ask questions and try to understand the behaviors or actions we don’t enjoy. Do we think distancing ourselves from someone else’s bad behavior indicates we won’t ever have to undertake their same fate? This impulse is not only incorrect in my esteem, it’s not gracious (not that anyone owes anyone grace).

While distancing ourselves from the undesirable “other” we undercut communal progress ever further. This is especially true when there’s no end to excommunication, or understood process for rehabilitation. When no friends are willing to help growth occur.

Subsets of people who have been banished from society have banded together and voted for Trump or started hate groups which plague our society further because doubling down and retribution are meals, and being left to fend for oneself alone in the cold with no timeline nor clear path forward toward rejoining the fold kills compassion for the place one used to call home…

In this day of mono-generational clusters, where we’re frequently unaware of the historical struggles we build upon, and the reasons for some limitations in the individuals we rail against,

In this day of silent segregation affording comfort for the privileged,

In this day of fear and fake news,

In this day of highrises and disappearing trees and fields,

In this day of unrest within our ever growing poverty stricken ranks,

In this day of side-eye and disgruntled daily discipline,

In this day of money over everything,

In this day of the disintegrated American Dream,

In this day of epic arguments with friends over words instead of destruction of the ideals which reinforced these boxes we feel trapped by in the first place, new code writing, or building different perspectives in exciting new ways,

In this day of unchecked sadism paired with a masochistic addiction to drama,

In this day of fuck-all refusal to see humanity over stats, and the issuance of name calling over compassion,

On this day of Empathy’s death,

I slide my stiletto heel, lubed by your own saliva and snot mixed with overwhelmed tears into the orifice you hate to embrace the most and call you “piggy”, because you are. And you aren’t. You’re afraid that if this confession, this atonement, this build of pressure doesn’t burst in the most memorable way possible, that we’ll all go down sober and wishing we’d tried to connect. I’m a clown and you’re my muse. This touch isn’t violent, though it’s wrapped in the banners of war — an illustrated history of fucking the soldiers who lost, the families who cannot afford a room at the castle, the bought and sold bodies-as-chattel of our slaves, the mothers and daughters of our friends against their will, the hated queers and perverts, all messing up The Man’s straight line to success.

We fuck when we conquer to cement the meaning of this newfound position. To mix our kinds in hopes the future will not rebel. To escape our past wrongs. To celebrate the dissipation of stress, or in hope of something happy to come. We fuck for creation. We fuck because making love is a privilege that not everyone can accomplish. We fuck to get off.

We submit when conquered to save our bodies and our families, loved ones, our lives and our homes. In submission we become a responsibility to be taken on. We submit for pleasure in downfall. We submit to acknowledge we were wrong. We submit to feel our bodies in ways our bodies have been taken from us. We submit for connection. We submit to know our strength — a promise to ourselves of survival. We submit because we want to be taken. We submit to get off.

Am I submitting or fucking in this “mr. piggy and the Dom clown” scene? Paid to alleviate something eating away at your mind. Paid to perform, as anyone who’s spent time rolling in the messiness might be able to. Or am I just “Femmeboy Sir: Friend, Councellor & Consultant” to the asses of personkind who worry and desire, afraid and entitled, searching for new perspective? Being fucked is something every one of us, outside of our million recored mistakes, greatly needs.

I believe the true place of this piggy of mine, grunting away, heeding my command and perilously close to being punctured, is where every human’s place is: on earth in the messiness — finding out through trial and error what is fucked up and what is right so that we can trust at the end of the day that we’re still allowed, with all of our faults acknowledged (though not necessarily excused), to come home.

Play On My Friends,
~ Creature

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Herstory Performance

From “Herstory: a Burlesque Retelling of History’s Greatest Women”. I performed a piece about “Anonymous”. Photo by Dahlia Strack

Sunday’s show was fantastic. A stellar cast and crew made it happen, with an amazing turnout of people who proved to be an excellent audience. The atmosphere was fun, sexy, thoughtful, and powerful. My performance made people cry, and I was shaking afterward. A lot of consideration and love went into the creation of this piece. I was thankful to be sharing a stage with other powerful performers that night. I hope another event with a similar focus is produced in the future. A huge congratulations to our producer, Frankie Stein!

Often I don’t share scripts from performances I’ve created. I do share them with my Patreon subscribers regularly. I’d like to share this one with everyone though. My patrons will still be the only ones privy to video of the performance.

The performance started out with me walking through the audience sharing famous historical quotes and the names of women, written on leaves taped to my body. I was plucked clean of my leaves by audience members, I then shared the names of the 14 (at my last count) names of trans people who have been killed this year as I walked back to stage. Most of those names belonging to trans women, and many of them women of color. This is the country we live in. We are not egalitarian finding targets for our hate crimes.

My performance was a tribute to “Anonymous”, the name assigned to so many women and queers historically, and who is very much still a part of our reality. Through misattributions, a general failure to highlight the work of women and minorities, and many other factors I represented Anonymous in iterations of her silent existence. At the end of the performance I disrobed completely, taking back narrative of my own body’s image. A celebration.

My audience gave me a standing ovation. It was an incredible moment to share with that room of people.

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Anonymous was a woman
by Creature/Karin Webb

Anonymous was a woman.

Anonymous was the girl who answered — in class, in the board room, on that panel — but no one heard her. That boy/man repeated her words louder, or to a bigger audience, or amongst other men with credentials and the power to publish.

Anonymous is also the shadow we named “woman” who famously stands behind “every great man”.

Anonymous took a man’s name — her lover’s father’s, grandfather’s, great-grandfather’s name — as she was “given away”, tagged as property, chattel, in marriage.

Anonymous was a lesbian.

Anonymous was a queer, a trans man, and many many trans women.

Anonymous was a person, a woman of color for sure.

Anonymous was a sex worker and an artist paying her own way.

Anonymous was trafficked.

Anonymous are the women, children, and sometimes men who didn’t press charges. The 7 in 10 rape cases which are never reported. Anonymous because they feared for their safety from those people who count on the erasable and unmemorable reality of Anonymous.

Anonymous was the woman without schooling, but not without dreams, the woman whose fingers made quilts and blankets to keep her children warm — her name, dreams, desires, and stories now forgotten as we look upon her life in stitches hanging in a museum. Called Americana.

Anonymous became our intuition instead of our canon when her name was never the answer on a test as part of our public school’s curriculum.

Anonymous is given a man’s name over and over again, even though her words, her wisdoms, and her knowledge was gleaned from the life she lived. She slides further from history’s spotlight into profoundly common obscurity.

Anonymous is the pregnant belly, the overweight body, the older woman’s physique, the hairy legs, arms, bikini line, and upper lip kept covered, ripped off, and secret. Sexualized. Carrying the weight of disgust, lust, judgment, and anything but peace in existence naturally.

Anonymous is the “female nipple” fighting for the same amount of vitamin D as it’s male counterpart on social media.

Anonymous was sexualized to sell something.
Anonymous couldn’t find an abortion clinic nearby.
Anonymous was arrested for dancing too close.
Anonymous committed suicide after being bullied and shamed.

Anonymous are the authors whose biographies aren’t written and the stories never published because “her-story” isn’t marketable to the masses.

Erased.

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Play On My Friends,
~ Creature

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