CLH Words

Author: chamomileharrison

  • Spreading Queer Joy at the Farmer’s Market

    Content warning for this piece: Discussion of threats of violence and use of the f-slur Side note: Please check out the work of Sky Cubacub at Rebirth Garments out of Chicago. Sky’s work as a queercrip fashion designer and their zine on radical visibility have shaped my thought on queer…

  • Harry Potter and the Cis Privilege

                   I really do not want to be writing this. If it were up to me, we would all forget about Harry Potter and its nazi author would be relegated to the obscurity of mid-level pub trivia questions. Unfortunately, it seems like some of y’all haven’t gotten the message.               …

  • Healing is work

    The world demands burnout and trauma. The society we built means that almost everyone will experience some type of trauma at one point, and be burnt out, often perpetually. Capitalism means and white supremacy ensure it. I have been thinking a lot about this lately as I have been fighting…

  • Enough

    Note on language: I use the term the occupation here instead of Israel. While I no longer recall where exactly I heard this, I believe that this phrasing refuses to legitimize the state of Israel, as they are a colonial state occupying stolen land. Nothing I do seems like enough.…

  • A Form of Hopelessness

                   It has been…a while. It is not that I did not want to write—in fact I have been writing. I have several drafts of posts sitting in my folder, not to mention all the other writing I have been doing. It’s not that I don’t have things to say,…

  • My Future

    I wrote this piece during a community writing workshop I helped host on a Discord server I am a part of. The prompt was “What is your ideal future and how does community play into it?” I think these short reflection really captures several of my beliefs and gives good…

  • Ad free since ’23

    You will not see any ads no this blog. This was almost not the case. This spring when the idea behind this blog first came to me, I envisioned it as a way to create some income. Thankfully, I did not start a blog then. It took me eight months…

  • The Artist

    I first wrote this piece in the spring of 2021 after reading Terry Prachet’ts “Guards! Guards!” and being rather sad that the dragons were the bad guys of the story. While there is a lot different I would do if I wrote the piece today–my voice as a writer has…

  • Introduction to Herb Garden

    I am a fan of taking things slow, of false starts, retrying, and doing things your own way. This is the third, or maybe fourth at this point, intro to a blog that I have written for myself in the past year. I am truly on criptime.                The reason…