Weekly Checklist 3/14/23

For your general health:

I just recently held a Queer Psychotherapist Potluck at my home with Peter Dewitt, a Somatic Therapist, and Gay Networker. He is smart, and professional and just in a matter of days organized a group of people to come over to the house this past Sunday and share the healing work they are doing with clients. Please go to gaywellness.com to become linked with this group or to find a practitioner near you regarding massage, hair & skincare, coaching, fitness & Yoga, and THERAPY!

For Your Feminist Health:

I recently had the pleasure of viewing “” Merrily We Go to Hell” on Criterion. It was made by Dorothy Arzner, the only female director who worked steadily in Hollywood during the 1930s. This protagonist is the ever-evolving Joan. It starts off with Joan, a young woman who fights off male sexual abuse and ends up marrying an alcoholic. The woman playing her, the great Sylvia Sydney, “already a start at twenty-one, endows the inexperienced but determined Joan with tremendous grace and nerves of steel,” says the New Yorker (my go-to to find interesting movies these days).

For those of you who might like a spot of good news,

And is interested in the ancient science of how the stars and planets seem to work in some geometric pattern regarding energy, gravitational pull, and the way seasons work on earth, life and learning, it just so happens that Venus, the planet of love and good fortune, is transiting into Taurus from March 16 to April 11. That means people might be seeing an overall improvement in their life functions due to the fact that Venus is rather at home in Taurus. This energy will affect people born under every constellation but differently. If you want to hear more about this, a certain Ablas Roland Legend gives a simple and rational discussion.

If you are a person interested in feminist studies or critical thinking, I would suggest you turn to Sara Ahmed’s “Living a Feminist Live.” At the moment, I am finishing a brilliant book on queer affirmative therapy (not just a self-help book, I’m to Ashkenazic), that attempts to marry postmodern thought with psychoanalysis (the theory of the heart). I look to Ahmed for some guidance, even though she's not quite crossed the Rubicon into trauma work. Ahmed’s not quite a psychologist, but there is a bit of an attempt to get out of the “HEAD” and into questions related to “feeling,” “happiness,” and “struggle.” Ahmed is a bridge.