Howdy to you my fellow Palmspringsians (to include the surrounding cities-duh.) So this new adventure that I’ve actively sought out to have here in the sluttiest place on Earth, Palm Motha’ Fuckin Springs- is going swell! Ya’ll knowz I luv this place and most of the people here. It truly is a magical place. There’s some strange -new to me – energy stuff here and it has a loving vibration to it, and I think the heat melts it into our soul; deep…deep inside you and deep…deep inside me.
So tonight, as I stare at my aging mummy in her beautiful little face, I see myself and my own inevitable aging. I wonder how I’ll look at her age? and your age too??? I’m assuming you are older than me or look it– because I use JLo Beauty products and this place is a homo mecca and retirement community for our older people.
Mmmmhmmmm….there are all these hot salt and pepper and greying Daddies er’where my gay horny eyes can see. And just so you know, I’ll fight getting them wrinkles as long as I can with them JLo masks and JLo face butta! That shit works, I’m almost 50 and my skin looks great. You can say it… I do all the time.
But omg, look at me making this blog post about me… LOL. My intention was to make a shout out— my intern is better than yours, holy shit/congratulations type of post about my intern (and dare I say friend) Malakai Strong intern extraordinaire. That mother fucker is a pretty awesome human being. If you’ve never given him a chance because he’s in a wheelchair and has CP then you done fucked up! He’s a smart, funny, and intelligent dude. He’s very deserving of your attention and respect. He’s very deserving of an opportunity to succeed.
Gettin to know ya Malakai Strong has been a pleasure.
Something some people may not know about me is that I come from a big ass (dare I say it) brown Mexican American family. I’ve got 13 aunts and uncles on each side. Meaning there were a lot of us(a). I grew up with a paraplegic auntie and quadriplegic uncle.
As many people in Layton, Utah know (because they know my big beautiful brown family and would see us with my aunt and uncle out and about town all the time when I was growing up.) Wheelchairs and people in them don’t scare me and I certainly know for certain-certain that just because someone’s in a wheelchair doesn’t mean that I’m smarter than them in any shape or form, or that you are either.
If you discriminate against people in wheelchairs or think they aren’t deserving of services, housing, medication or medical treatment than you’re not only a dick and terrible human being, you’re an ableist.
Googles says…
Ableism is discrimination and prejudice against individuals with disabilities. It’s a system of beliefs and practices that favor people without disabilities, viewing them as superior and considering disability as a negative trait to be fixed or overcome. Ableism manifests in various forms, from individual biases to societal structures and cultural norms.
It totes left the part that you’re also an ass hole.
I’m no stranger to discrimination or hate and the likelihood that you are reading this and haven’t experienced it too is probably super duper low. But I remember seeing it full force when I was a kid. Some of my earliest memories are seeing how people would look at my uncle and aunt when we’d go out to a movie or to the mall. The stares… the stares…the looks…the looks….the long gaze…the long gaze.
0 fucks….0 fucks are what my aunt and uncle gave. (At least that’s what they showed us(a) kids growing up. And it did something for me. Made my soul a little tougher.) And I see Malakai’s persistence also reads 0 fucks given because he’s going to succeed anyway. No matter what people do to get in his way, he persists. I like that about him.
I think that’s why they are trying to destroy America, isn’t it? Because people like me and you, they/them and us(a)} are actually ….finally being allowed to dream, achieve, and chase our own American dreams to fulfillment. With no doubts that one day they will make it and will hopefully thrive one day. They want us(a) to doubt that the American Dream is for us(a) too. Are they really coming after my, your, they/them, and us(a)’s opportunity to live out the American dream? If so that’s soooo shitty. It’s gaaaayross **where this gay man is judging you with his eyes and good skin -thinking you are gross because of your mentality and/or evil oppressive behavior**.
People like Malakai today are also given the same chance to dream, achieve and chase his/ own American dream. He’s doing it, living it, and he’s almost done with his master’s degree in social work. I’m very proud of him… and to think there are a couple of agencies out here that he approached (almost 2 years ago) that turned him down to be one of their Master’s Level interns. Ya’ll missed the fuck out. His clients loooove him and he’s actually been a Godsend to me too. Remember a while back when shit was getting tough for our community, to look for the glimmers? Well he’s one of those glimmers.
Someone to talk to about all this crazy manufactured chaos that our country, our queer community, and Latino communities are being subjected to by this administration is easier to go through if you (and I) have someone caring to process their hate with. Especially if that person has similar American values. By that I mean values like believing in the dignity of all human life, not just the white souls (but some of them are the cutest and most fuckable in my opinion…yum.) And I also value all life too, not just humans or land animals. Someone that also cares about the sea and the lives that call it home. I vibe with those kinds of people.
Malakai is probably a little bit of a better human than me because he doesn’t eat animals for nourishment. Well me…. well I loooves meat in my mouth. And until God flat out comes out and says to me that I should not eat yummy “hamberders” then I’m going have one every now and again and just not every night. Now, is God going to flat outcome say that that I shouldn’t eat meat??? I will only believe it if He says it to me directly because I don’t trust those fake ass Christians in the Congress. I don’t believe anything they say and I don’t think God would say that or that He has a relationship with them.
Just like Jesus never said anything antigay. He’s a lover not a hater…unless it was about hypocrites and churches turning a profit, people oppressing others, people hating their neighbors, casting the fist stone, and that one part about welcoming the weary immigrant with love. My goodness, He’d be washing the feet of the weary immigrants they are deporting. None of these traits are being preached about by these hate filled faux Christians in Congress. They are fake ass Christians.
So NOOOOO matter how much they try to push that Jesus doesn’t love queer people, immigrants or the disabled….well shit it just isn’t true. I think any person preaching hate and directing it to an already oppressed group of human beings is gayross and wrong. Being discriminated against sucks, it hurts, and has a lasting sting. Like, that’s a pretty terrible human being that would think like that. All humans deserve dignity and to be given an opportunity to succeed… even if the oppressive republican opposition keeps trying to say that isn’t true- it is. YOU, ME, They/Them, and US(A) deserve to be treated with dignity and given just as much a chance to succeed as everybody else. Not a hand out…just a chance to be on the playing field of life. (Ewe, did I just make a sports reference. Gross, very disappointed in myself.)
So, getting back to my wonderful intern. A little stoned and a whole bunch ADHD is happening as I write this (unless I’m in a session with you. Then I’m forced to listen and the ADHD is well controlled, LOL.) During his time with me, Malaki has started a trans and a trans-masc support group. Two spaces that there can never be enough of. He impresses me with his love and compassion and keeps me accountable when I start slacking. He’s also gay and he’s also trans and black and he’s in a wheelchair… and I love having him as my intern.
I’m better off having known him and having him represent my company in the best way possible. Totes better.
I’m proud of him (you). I think this desert is better for having him living here. He’s actively serving some of our most vulnerable community members out there. I’m just saying what’s in my heart and if you don’t agree with me then you are wrong…lol j/k…. if you don’t agree with me then you don’t know Malakai and haven’t given him a chance yet. Orrrrrr….. you don’t have empathy. Orrrr…. you could be one of those oppressive fake ass Christian republican congressmen?
I’m so glad and grateful that those other agencies declined to have him work for them… their loss is literally my gain (and the gain of the clients he sees through his internship at my practice.) I’m pretty sure that after his practicum this winter, he’s going to say what a crazy ditzy passionate caring happy homo I am, and it will be interesting to see what his future brings.
I have a feeling that as I see him chase his own American Dreams – it’s definitely going to be an “I knew him when…” type of moment(s) for me. Meaning I knew him when he just started his professional career. I hope that no congressman or judge gets in his way and if they do… I hope he rolls right past those ignorant smug elitist bitches and keeps inching closer to making his American dreams and goals a reality. Fuck them hateful hoes. He’s just as deserving as you or me, they/them, and he’s part of us(a).
Why am I telling you about my intern? Well duh bitch, I was just about to tell you.
During his practicum Malakai Strong became Mr. Palm Springs Human Rights Commission Member Strong.
Yea, you totes heard me right…he’s a fucking member of the Palm Springs Human Rights City Commission now. How fucking fun is that???? Sssome beeoches didn’t even give this dude a chance to finish his education (through a mandatory practicum) at their agency. That’s kinda cock blockin at a bigger level than I’m comfortable with and gives me the ewe -ewe- ewe feelings.
Look, if he doesn’t do a practicum he doesn’t finish his degree. Plain and simple…and he’s made it this far. That MAN in that wheelchair has made it this far!!!!! We shouldn’t get in his way… we should be supporting him along the way.
Again, their loss is my gain because now I have an ear of one of the Palm Springs Human Rights Commissioners? (Am I using that title correctly?) He really has been a pleasure and I get to guide him through learning how to put all that caring about other human beings and our country into therapy, community based activism, and/or volunteering. Actually, I’m also learning from him to be honest. He makes me feel old because he’s doin way more than most able bodied people I know…all to make sure other people feel seen, heard, are given a voice, and feel loved. It’s cool to watch and my practice and I are better because of him and maybe in spite of them. (Them in so many senses of the word.) He may make me feel old, but remember I use JLo Beauty so I don’t look it.
I always tell Malakai that I’m going to take all the credit for him completing his education and I might as well collect his degree for him on that stage, cause I’m taking credit. I’m also taking credit for every great thing that he does going forward … in all of his future. I tell him I GET ALL THE CREDIT! This even goes to his Commissionership … or whatever it’s called. I get ALL the CREDIT!
*takes bow* *curtsey* *curtsey*
Fine, I’m only a tiny itsy bitsy footnote in his life’s story. Oh, and he’s got a book. I finally read it. He gave it to me when he first started over a year ago and I haven’t read it cause I’m ADHD as fuck and I have an “it happens when it happens” kinda brain. Well in my post spinal surgery recovery I read his book and its good to get to know him more. It really does provide some insight to who he is. I know there’s more to that story.. I know there’s a lot he left out… and I know there’s a lot left to be written.
Looking forward to his next chapters.
Bro-vo Mr. Human Rights Commission Member Malaki Strong.-bro-vo. The city will be better because of your insight, compassion, experience, and loving soul. Bro-vo bitch….bro-vo….bravo! Thanks for letting me be part of your journey.
I’m sorry I didn’t get the chance to see him be sworn in by (I think) the PS Mayor/Commissioners??? It was all a thing…like a swearing in ceremony and er’ thang. So cool….so my intern. He’s gong to succeed in spite of them bitches. His swearing in was the same day of my back surgery; so I couldn’t make it. But alas, I’m still here to collect all the credit.
Malakai I can’t wait to see where life takes you and its been a pleasure getting to know ya. Skies the limit for ya bitch….sky is the limit. Good luck and in the words of Mama Ruples.. “And don’t fuck it up!”
Me, singing, “Nothin can stop you…you’re free!”
I know so many of us(a) are mad about the state of the union, but I’m still proud to be an American and know what American values really are. It’s not that oppressive discriminatory bull shit and manufactured chaos they are creating. Malakai embodies so many wonderful American attributes. He deserves his dream to become a reality. Gooo go…get it. Get it!
In Gratitude and Service,
The Happy Homo
PS This is Malakai in the Palm Springs Post… scroll down. https://thepalmspringspost.com/citys-boards-commissions-report-major-achievements-at-annual-joint-meeting-with-city-council/
PSS This is Malakai being sworn in
And this is Malakai with his signed certificate – his oath of office.
PSSS This is Malakai’s website where you can purchase his book if you’d like to support him- he is after all…our queer brother in the desert.
PSSSS God bless America and may He protect us(a) from corrupt evil men and women who try to use His name to oppress other people. (I heard they are arresting immigrants and sending them to for profit prisons where they get paid $1 working all day and they have to make $5 to make 1 phone call to their family. That’s 5 days of forced free slave labor for $5. That’s fucking gross. I can’t believe America has any part of this. We are better than that. They are evil…we are not. I hope to see their trials in the near future.
PSX5 This is my new puppy. She’s hilarious and very talkative. Elizabeth…is also a grumpy sleeper.
She’s a piggy puppy.
Snow White we see YOU! So glad Disney did a beautiful Latina Snow White! 🙂
More harassing the sleeping baby
PSX6 I was almost there… and I need a JLo hair flipped hair extension. *JLo hair flip* I’m FREE!!!!! You’re free, Malakai is free- WE THE PEOPLE are fuckin free!!!!!!!!!!
