#Patricia Reed

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From Patricia Reed's Orientation in a Big World: On the Necessity of Horizonless Perspectives

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The effects of interaction, understood as a mode of interference, and its feedback upon mental models of the world are driven by sensitivities to information. By comparison, disciplinary decadence can be described, geometrically, as an absolute fixing of a Euclidean site for certain knowledge types, and through a practice of self-bordering it amounts to conditions for informational desensitization. The degree of transformation of mental models corresponds to the receptivity to re-cognize “signals” or “alerts”, as Ramon Amaro and Murad Khan have written in their outline of an expanded picture of interpellation beyond its pejorative guise as that which underwrites the self-transformational opportunity for updating mental models (Amaro/Khan 2020). From a topological perspective, the updating of mental models is akin to recognizing new conditions of situatedness: absent a static or a priori site from which to think, cognitive transformation is equal to the construction of other locales for embedding thought.

https://aestheticmanagement.com/writing/pointless-topology-figuring-space-in-computation-and-cognition/

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“There is no doubt that abstract processes of value-extraction, such as the increased financialization of the economy, coupled with the division of labour across the entirety of society, have permeated our everyday lives with furious (and exhausting) force. The simplistic reaction—to return to tangible and concrete modes of life/production—does nothing more than insinuate a Fordist regression to monotonous labour, a disavowal of development that would amount to the same as suggesting the restoration of a purely Euclidean universe. To denounce abstraction as a malevolent force in itself is to deny the necessary role played by the power of abstraction in shaping new modes of existence, for as Brassier reminds us, practical (concrete) incapacities reflect theoretical (abstract) incapacities. Furthermore, to denounce abstraction is to also deny any possibility of forging a 'we’ or collective body beyond what remains immediately perceptible in other words, a demos. The ‘we' is always an abstraction, it cannot be reduced to the counting of populations (all bodies cannot be concretely experienced); moreover, if this 'we' is to take into account non-human actors, abstraction must be accelerated so as to accommodate new ontological positions. The issue is not one of obliterating abstractions, since there is no concrete essential kernel of humanity to return to; the issue, rather, concerns how to deploy the power of abstraction towards alternative modes of life, distributions of exchange, production, and consumption.”

-Patricia Reed, “Reorientate, Eccentricate, Speculate, Fictionalize, Geometricize, Commonize, Absractify: Seven Prescriptions for Accelerationism (2014)

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THE VILLAINS OF VALLEY VIEW (2022-) | 1x12 “Showdown at the Round Up”

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Dress rehearsal for CBS TV’s “Playhouse 90” adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgeralds “The Great Gatsby” in 1958. Pictured: Rod Taylor (as Nick Carraway), Jeanne Crain (as Daisy Fay Buchanan), Phillip Reed (as Tom Buchanan), Robert Ryan (as Jay Gatsby), and Patricia Barry (as Jordan Baker).

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Patricia: What are you wearing?

Benji: Well, I’m ✨naked✨ under my clothes

Eddie, angry: Are you flirting with her?

Benji: ✨You✨ are naked under your clothes

Eddie: Are you flirting with ME?

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June Jordan's legacy, A dialogue with Erica R. Edwards, Marina Magloire, and Patricia Spears Jones, hosted by Conor Tomás Reed, December 12, 2024, Co-hosted by the Center for Humanities, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, with Common Notions and Wendy's Subway

(image: June Jordan, 1981. Photo by Sara Miles)

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The Diary Of Jensen Reed

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Patricia Roc-Maxwell Reed-Finlay Currie "Hermanos" (The brothers) 1947, de David MacDonald.

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OAKLAND — A well-known transgender activist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering three family members in a brutal and frenzied attack that the judge said was the worst he’d seen in three decades.

Dana Rivers, 68, of San Jose, was found guilty last year of murdering Oakland resident Charlotte Reed, 56, her wife Patricia Wright, 57, and Wright’s 19-year-old son, Benny Toto Diambu-Wright, in an attack inside the victims’ home. Prosecutors say she used a handgun equipped with a silencer to shoot the victims, stabbed Reed 47 times as the couple slept in their bedroom and then set the garage on fire in an attempt to cover her tracks.

“It is a horrible thing to sentence someone to die in prison, and I don’t take that lightly,” Judge Scott Patton said in a Wednesday court hearing. “But this is the most depraved crime I ever handled in the criminal justice system in 33 years. Frankly, you deserve to spend the rest of your life in prison.”

Rivers, who first claimed self-defense during the guilt phase of her trial, then argued she was legally insane at the time, did not speak during sentencing. Wright’s brother submitted a letter to the court, in which he recounted the stress of going through the crime scene and how Rivers’ turned his sister’s warm and welcoming home into a blood bath.

Richard Wright said his sister was the “rubber band” that held their family together. She was an artist, a “peacemaker,” and “really wanted to be a parent.”

“When Dana Rivers killed my sister, she broke that rubber band,” his letter says. “What held my family together was gone.”

Rivers has been in jail since Nov. 11, 2016, the same day the murders were committed. She was arrested as she left the victims’ home, covered in their blood and headed toward a motorcycle that was parked nearby. The motive, according to prosecutors, was a mix of personal animus and anger at Reed for leaving an all-women biker gang.

Reed and Rivers met at the Menlo Park Veterans Affairs Center in Palo Alto, where they formed a friendship that included Rivers recruiting Reed into the motorcycle club known as the Deviants MC. They became estranged after Reed left the club, but Rivers methodically convinced her to restart their friendship to give herself an opportunity to commit the murders, Deputy District Attorney Abigail Mulvihill argued at trial.

Before her arrest, Rivers was best known as a schoolteacher who became an international news story when she came out as transgender to her students in a high school in Antelope, California. She was subsequently fired for sharing details of her transition, then sued the district and received $150,000 in a settlement. In the aftermath, she became an activist for transgender rights, and ultimately moved to the Bay Area to restart her life as an educator.

Patton denied a motion for a new trial filed by Rivers’ attorney, which argued that prosecutors committed misconduct and that the judge prevented relevant exculpatory evidence from being heard. Patton said the issues raised ranged from “trivial” to “frankly quite ridiculous,” and called the evidence of Rivers’ guilt “overwhelming.”

LGB Alliance USA - Justice Served: Murderer Finally Sentenced After Six Long Years of Legal Maneuvering.

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From Patricia Reed's Orientation in a Big World: On the Necessity of Horizonless Perspectives

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Species III (2004)

In today's review, I find that alien-human hybrids may be more than academic. As I attempt a #positive review of the TV sequel, Species III #RobinDunne #RobertKnepper #SunnyMabrey #SavannaFields #AmeliaCooke #JohnPaulPitoc #MichaelWarren #ChristopherNeame

There is liberating freedom to thought experiments, ideas so wild that they can only exist in our imagination. Yet, when faced with reality, any prepared response and planned action goes out the window, when reality is staring right back at you. In 2004, the hypothetical continuation of new ways of life may become the nightmarish reality of humanity, in Species III. Sara grows quickly, like her…

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Can you imagine if a white lesbian public figure brutally murdered two trans women in an interracial relationship and their black son? The headlines, the think-pieces, op-eds...we would never hear the end of it. It would be blamed on lesbian communities as a whole and the transmisogyny and white supremacy we obviously perpetuate on a daily basis just by existing. Cotton ceiling discourse would be back with a vengeance. There would be rallies and vigils, there would be calls to "Stand by your trans", there would be "#LWithTheT" marches. There would be a community in mourning, full of fury and hurt and self-righteous rage at the nasty lesbian aggressors who clearly caused this anti-trans hate crime. There would be no room for nuance and all lesbians would be painted with the "evil cis white dykes want us dead" brush. All of this would be seen as a completely acceptable and understandable response to a brutal act of anti-trans violence by a lesbian perpetrator.

So where is the noise? Where is the clamouring? Where is the sound and fury, when a famous white trans activist murders an interracial lesbian couple and their black son? I don't expect (or want) it to spark a radfem revolution, but why is the silence around the Dana Rivers murder case so deafening? Why does no one in the so-called LGBTQ+ community care enough to loudly and proudly mourn and celebrate these women and their son? Charlotte, Patricia and Benny deserve to be remembered. They deserve our sound and fury. Even if it's difficult, even if the optics don't suit your world views, we cannot ignore some injustices and claim to fight against others. The cowardly LGBT+ media organisations and charities covering their eyes and pretending that this act of violence never happened, they will happily call on lesbians for solidarity this pride month, despite showing no solidarity for a lesbian family slaughtered by an apparent member of our own "community". How can we call this anything other than a cover-up, or at the very least, deliberate and contrived ignorance?

Patricia Wright. Charlotte Reed. Benny Toto Diambu-Wright. Their lives were stolen from them on November 11th 2016. I can find no obituarities, and minimal mainstream media coverage of their murders. For many years, it felt almost as if their suffering had been forgotten. It has taken six and a half years for their murderer to be convicted and sentenced to life without parole, a sentence which Rivers will spend in a women's prison. Is this justice, or a pale imitation of such? Either way, I hope this family may finally rest in peace and power, and that their loved ones may begin to move forwards.

Pat and Char, as they were known to friends and family, are survived by two children. Patricia worked as a school teacher and deaf interpreter for schools, while Charlotte worked in a salon known locally for being trans-inclusive. Patricia was also an artist and talented actor, having considered a career in performing arts after high school. Charlotte had previously been a member of an all-female motorcycle club, which Rivers was also involved in. Both Charlotte and Patricia were also former regular attendees of MichFest, a feminist music festival which was closed down in 2015, following years of protests by trans women including Dana Rivers. 19-year-old Benny had just graduated high school and, according to his brother, hoped to become a nurse.

A victim impact statement was read out by Richard Wright, Patricia's younger brother, during Rivers' sentencing. I can't find the full text but much of the statement can be found in the Berkeley Scanner article below. Wright describes the impact of finding out that his sister and her family had been "assassinated in their own home" and the traumatising experience of searching for important paperwork at the bloodied crime scene that was once their home. According to Richard, Dana Rivers "chose her [sic] entitlement and narcissism over basic human decency" and "chose violence, cruelty, sadism and entitlement — over and over and over again." This is in reference to the length of court proceedings due to Rivers' changing pleas, as well as the brutality of the crime itself, which was carried out using guns, knives and arson. According to the judge, the murders of Patricia, Charlotte and Benny were "the most depraved crime that I’ve handled in the criminal justice field in 33 years."

No one but Rivers is responsible for these heinous crime, but all of us are responsible for ensuring history is not forgotten, and that the stories of those taken from us continue to be told. And when we tell their stories, in sound and in fury, we must ensure they do not fall on deaf ears.

"They were real people, not collateral damage...They deserve to be seen."

- Richard Wright's victim impact statement

For more information, see below:

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Any vague ideas of names for the fatebreakers?

I do! I have a couple different name ideas, especially for the Time Traveler. The thing is, while I think one of them is really funny, I'm not entirely sure it's in good taste.

So, one option for him (the safe option) is Timothy Travers. This would go along with similarly punny names like Mandy Reed, Patricia Cog, Reginald Guy, etc.

The other one, the one I'm not sure of, is Muhammad Wang. Is he Muslim? Eh, religion is complicated in the future. Is he Chinese? Hard to tell, actually. What he is, is a guy who looked up 'most common first name' and 'most common last name' when he first landed in this time and didn't do any further research before introducing himself that way.

Like I said, that second one strikes me a humorous, but I can tell it also has the potential to be offensive. So I'm not sure of it. And I'd have to think more about everyone else's names.