Howdy! I'm Hy Libre. I am a trans anarchist poetess, dyke, and antihumanist hermeneuticist. I believe we must destroy the veil between literal and metaphorical, consequently exploding the definition of humanity until capitalism cannot yoke it further. Also I think games are neat.
Poetics & Aesthetics
Theses on the Philosophy of Cringe, a breaking-into the materialism-idealism debate with the blunt crowbar of "cringe"
Autism Haiku, an examination of a particular corporate use of Anglophone haiku
Judge Judy as Visual Sound Poetry, a close-reading of Judge Judy with the sound off and no closed captions
Carly Rae Jepsen as Refraction Lens for My Own Depression, a highly personal close-reading of "Call Me Maybe" from someone who isn't into Jepsen
"What do you mean by antihumanist hermeneuticist?", where I explain that weird line in my bio.
Transness, Autism, Right Speech, & Transanarchism
The Unicorn, a spiritualist, anti-TME-paradigm approach to discussing transmisogyny.
Le Grand T, an essay about Le Grand T, the ideal trans woman who is kept in a cave underground in France.
Meditation on Trans Visibility and Usefulness, a reflection on when a school shooter was trans
Can't We Just Talk Like Adults?, an argument against phrases like "childish" and "adult conversation".
"Neckbeard as Perjorative Metonym", a vent about those who call others "neckbeard"
trans person explains dysphoria in 9 levels of difficulty (beginner to expert) (MUST WATCH), a dialectic(?) on the word "dysphoria"
The Parable of Beow, or the creation of gender
Anti-Odysseus, an argument against treating bad politics like a cognitohazard
Games & Ludology
The Best-Designed Pokemon Card, a short essay about a Pokemon card named "batman!!".
The Monomyth Thread, an essay about learning to love and use the turgid manmade horror that is the Campbell monomyth.
On Goncharov, a combination essay-game about *Goncharov*, the tumblr in-joke where they created a long-lost Martin Scorcese film that never existed.
Natalie Libre's Indie Kids Menu, a game with colorable animal pals! (and also like, a funny thought on a brand-new type of game)
Lyric Scrabble, a game/essay/skit about playing scrabble while trans.
Theories and Doubt: Playing Card Games Competitively, a theory of competitive card game play in opposition to Rosewater's science [sic] of player psychographics. It is a defense of his "Spike".
Faith, a color pie close-reading of the *Magic* card Faithless Looting, and what it says in relation to its lookalike card Faithful Mending.
Some of my games
WHERE IS YOUR ANGER, a game about anger. You play it by tweeting.
Mass Production, a grand-scale poetry-writing lyric game.
Care for Hecuba, a lyric game collection about mythical greek women-- Hecuba, Semele, the like. It begins with a long ramble about loving stuffed animals, as all good games should.
Give Away A Heart, a business card game about drawing cats.
Wacky / Creative Writing
How I Learned To Stop Whining And Love The Poop Unicorn Rabbithole, about my journey to discover the true lyrics of a song about pooping unicorns.
A Highly Sophisticated Attack, flash fiction about bad writing.
Counting in the Storybook Savannah, a philosophy of math short story.
a short story, a cautionary tale about a competition mathematician
"Are the queens in chess sapphic?", a queer close-reading of chess.
Lindemann's Immortal Bongcloud, an introduction to a memey game of chess