more photos soon

My hard drives crashed almost simultaneously after an OS reformat/upgrade. I've reconstructed a database of the developed photos, but I couldn't recover them all.

Check back here in upcoming days and weeks for more photos.
In the meantime: http://www.flickr.com/photos/transgenderwarrior/sets/

#27 Minnie Bruce Pratt, moving day

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#26 Minnie Bruce and Ben

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#25 Minnie Bruce Pratt triumphal

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#24 Minnie Bruce Pratt writing

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#23 vultures

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#22 women, children

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#21 pink hats (2 of 2)

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#20 blue hats (1 of 2)

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#19 archers

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yours in struggle

As I get deeper into pharmaceutical treatment, it gets harder to work and to communicate on as frequent a basis.

I have heightened respect for photographers who have posted 365 photos daily for a year. I still strive to post 30 photos in 30 days--the last archiving of my large-sized prints, but it's a stretch. And it's hard for me to take new photos at this time. So, during winter and spring here, I'll try to develop some of the photos I already have into photo narratives, slide shows and panoramas.

In the meantime, I offer you my photographs. My photos all have a Creative Commons copyright, requiring only attribution; and no derivative or commercial use without permission--my gift to you all personally:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/transgenderwarrior/sets/

#18 Erie canal, terminus

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#17 recruiters, New York State Fair

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#16 lion, gift, captivity

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#15 blue dog, pink dogs

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#14 neighbors

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#13 yield

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#12 haircut

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#11 deteriorating factories

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#10 man, pigeons

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#9 gift for beloved neighbors

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#8 shoulder, dragon, wing

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#7 Minnie Bruce Pratt, orange ring

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#6 matching gender

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#5 under the same moon

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#4 reaching out

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#3 conversations

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#2 man, cane, cat

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#1 freedom in necessity

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as earth tilts towards sun, where I live

Tomorrow morning I begin a new stage of chemical treatments. I'd hoped to postpone beginning the long road of antibiotic and aggressive pharmaceuticals to give me a fighting chance against entrenched Lyme spirochetes.

After decades of illness and massive pharmacological interventions, eating food and drinking liquids is already a constant challenge, dawn-to-dark. So my doctor has guided me through early treatment using powerful herbal-based medicines to see if I could tolerate them. I could not.

After many years of being treated so arrogantly and cruelly by medical authority, I had demanded a moratorium on invasive diagnostic testing and pharmaceutical rule-outs. I was searching for science--not psychologizing drawn from the polluted well of prejudice.

Now that I have a doctor who respects me as a member of my own health team, and am proceeding along the path of evidence-based care, I can appreciate the art she also brings to my struggle for quality of life.

I've spent the last weeks before treatment archiving all the photographs from the last year at the Community Darkrooms here in Syracuse. For just the cost of milliliters of ink, I was able to work in the comfort of darkness with mentors and use my own rolls of paper to print on large-scale Epson equipment.

I've used my flickr photostream albums in cyberspace to organize my printed photographs and to facilitate labeling and archiving. I have at least 30 photos I didn't upload last year.

So as I begin pharmaceutical hibernation, in which treatments will escalate by the week, my goal is to post one of the photos each morning (U.S. Eastern Standard Time), in a non-narrative order on my blog and flickr it up at the same time. I will only post one photo a week to facebook , myspace and twitter.

It's a good time to just post photos because I've temporarily lost my typography tools for type line breaks; rags, skews.

If you'd like to find your way back to see the new photos, you'll find the button to follow this blog on the sidebar.

¡Walter Trochez, presente!

'birds, barriers'

Walter Trochez: a leader in Honduras of the National Front against the coup
and L/G/B/T activist.

"On Dec. 4, Tróchez was kidnapped by four masked armed men, severely beaten and interrogated about individuals associated with the National Resistance Front. He managed to escape, and courageously went public to denounce the attack. Nine days later, he was shot twice in the chest by a gunman driving by in a car, killing him." ...

[to read rest of protest statement: click here]

video: Coalicion de la comunidad LGTBI -- Honduras