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Jack Knoxville

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Category: Rants and Ramblings

Jack’s writings, blog posts, rants, and ramblings from across the years.

Rants and Ramblings

For the Love Of Kyle, I Can’t Take it Anymore

July 21, 2011 Jack Knoxville My heart is broken at the way that otherwise good people so smugly sit on national television, smirk on faces as ignorance takes over. It’s not them, I tell myself.  But let’s face it, it is. A
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October 16, 2020October 16, 2020jackknoxville_bpjg78bigotry, reflections, Society, writing
Rants and Ramblings

Internet Hoax’s and why I’m (still) pissed @ Tom MacMaster

Penned: June 15, 2011 The entire experience of “A Gay Girl In Demascus” drained me.  Seriously. Perhaps it was my insomniatic mind playing tricks on me or toying with my emotions but I sat here the night that I wrote about this
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October 15, 2020October 15, 2020jackknoxville_bpjg78writing
Rants and Ramblings

Another Sleepless Night

May 31, 2011 It’s another long and lonely sleepless night. 6 am and I see the sunlight. Birds are chirping and all I can think about is putting on a pot of coffee. What’s the point of fighting this mortal enemy of
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October 15, 2020October 15, 2020jackknoxville_bpjg78poverty poems
Rants and Ramblings

#metoo

I say “Me too” to a group of people who’ve already discluded me while walking down inclusive halls of those mighty fine “Safe spaces” Eyes are met with blank stares as the smiles fade off of their faces I’m not white enough
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October 15, 2020October 15, 2020jackknoxville_bpjg78#metoo, #poetry, #sexual-assault, #writing
Rants and Ramblings

Guide to Surviving Homelessness

Guide to Surviving Homelessness by Jack Knoxville If you’re reading this, I’m going to assume it’s because you’ve found yourself with nowhere to go and need some help.  First, let me tell you: your present is not your future, and right now,
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October 12, 2020October 13, 2020jackknoxville_bpjg78
Rants and Ramblings

The First Time I Voted

I was being interviewed for a magazine on trans voting, when my own story around elections finally occurred to me. They asked How old I was the first time I voted and why? This was my answer: I was 21 when I
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October 8, 2020October 8, 2020jackknoxville_bpjg78campaigns, elections, my story, vote4visibility, voting
Rants and Ramblings

The Hypocrisy of White Meltdowns

Cis-colonizers are not ok right now. They are having meltdowns, throwing life-threatening temper tantrums, and getting so angry over not being able to carry on with the same privileges and entitlements that they’re used to. For weeks, I’ve been watching these escalating
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October 8, 2020October 8, 2020jackknoxville_bpjg78racism, white people
Rants and Ramblings

That Day, I Almost Got Shot

In Dec. 2018, I had an encounter with the Knoxville Police Dept. that I don’t know if I will ever shake, because I wasn’t sure I was going to survive that day. After months of being harassed, stalked, antagonized by someone that
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October 8, 2020October 8, 2020jackknoxville_bpjg78my story, personal experiences, racism, reflections
Rants and Ramblings

The Long Walk

On my walk down  This eternal highway My body has grown tired I am spent This showerless skin Grows heavier Between each breath I am heavier My body is ready to lie down It’s lonely out there on the highwy My soul
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October 8, 2020October 8, 2020jackknoxville_bpjg78poverty poems
Rants and Ramblings

Death is a Stalker

Life has changed quite a bit As I hop From dream to dream Reality the sleep I catch in between I’ve already lived through a thousand forevers Each time different, each time the same Each time maybe just slightly better Sometimes it
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October 8, 2020October 8, 2020jackknoxville_bpjg78Poetry, poverty poems

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