Eaton Hamilton

the problem with being trans is cis people. The problem with being queer is straight people. The problem with being disabled is abled people. The problem with being Black is white people. In other words, prejudice.

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These days, while I’m moving…

pastel by Eaton Hamilton

…and have a lot of medical appts to wade through, it never happens that I can clear my schedule for a week. It seems baggy and luxurious, like an emotional space I can fit into for once.

Moving has never really been as bad as now, since if you don’t find a place before you to have leave, there’s literally nowhere to go. Not for the wealthy, I know, but for we serfs.

So, I had a week where I could cancel a couple last things and just feel the space around me. I motored through a partial draft of my memoir having no idea if I was hitting the right direction or losing it even more entirely than I had in the draft where that was allowed. I’d laugh except the daunting task of reading this one-third book has not happened yet. I dread finding out it doesn’t work, again.

What are you writing this week? Are you getting through in a project that’s been giving you pain? Any successes to report?

Have a good week if you can with all the worry.

So many women stand waiting behind fences…

 Womanatfence

pastel painting: Jane Eaton Hamilton, unknown date

And this exquisite fragment from Warsan Shire’s poem “what they did yesterday afternoon:”

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Ginko biloba

JEHGinkoGinko biloba: pastel on paper, 20×30 by Jane Eaton Hamilton

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Listening to Leadfoot

Just for a change, I thought I’d post my most recent visual art.  I just love it.  I saw a woman with a very long neck across the room at a Leadfoot concert in east Van on the weekend, and I couldn’t think for wanting to draw her.  So here is my rendition of her (which is of course nothing like she really looked.

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