What’s Your Background, Set?
An Introduction
What constantly plagued my mind was what it would it be like to be without universal plight and conflict. Later in life I've come to understand that chaos comes in tides and even utopias can have it's issues. Nothing is absolute, but infinite and reoccurring. So, I write about the ups and downs of what is and could be of society centered around the evolution of humans and technology. This is the times we are in. We are living the They Live/ Brave New World, sprinkled with the society's emotional ambiguity of THX 1138 and the limited privacy and military industrial complex of Starship Troopers. Laws are advantageous to those of systematic benefit and economic suffocation of those it does not. I write the truth. My writings in speculative and science fiction bleed into one another when I discuss what may come out of our future when the human part of transhumanism is neglected. I'm no Luddite. Prosthetics made ethically and available to all humans when in need should be accessible to it's core and should without saying. To quote my favourite passage from Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West, "In times of Chaos, The Soul is Immortal". But to what extent and for whom?
My medium draws from a conglomeration of my experiences from my upbringing, sexuality, gender expression and I challenge the thought process of the intersectionality of queer existence and experiences in the scope of future-tense social and governmental structures and complexes. Also my inspirations come from old childhood German horror stories and crime fiction. My favourite authors are Franz Kafka, Octavia Butler, Andre Lorde, Bell Hooks, Toni Morrison, Thomas Ligotti, Awa Thiam (her book Black Sisters Speak Out: Feminism and Oppression in Black Africa helped me find my voice) and many more.
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