Blissful Trauma

PAmela Sneed Invocation:

Chicago is living in trauma, post trauma, and ignorance be it blissful or willful.  It is nice to have the choice to look away.  It is nice to deal with what IS your job and not what is needed.  This is not my nature.  My genuine philosophy is that everything is connected.  I connected with Pamela Sneed on youtube, and in books.  I identify with her.  I My idea of her.  She reminds me of myself and my friends.  I said I was going to speak today and across the board the reaction I got was Pamela she’s wonderful.  

The work I chose as my jumping off point was the gift- the newest work in print at the library.  Here I found no rhymes but plenty of reason.  Reasons to connect with life and others, not to turn away from the shit that is happening, to make art, and to love yourself.  

A ho, so it goes, It’s all good

I teach at a Chicago public School.  I teach High School Art on the South Side.  I have taught in different situations in and around Chicago since 1996.  The chaos of the school system has caused me to switch schools every year for the past three years.  I was at King College Prep for 4 years I was tenured but I was laid off with no notice because of “budgetary issues” . It is never just one thing though because everything is connected.  

My last year at King I witnessed and lived through the school losing it’s SAFE.

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