Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

Life Imitating Art... ...or something like that... WHENEVER I THINK OF THE PATHETIC CHILDREN distorted from their natural and healthy body-mind integration into unnatural and unhealthy disintegration by monsters in the home or the social or institutional environment, resulting in "queerness" of either the conventional or (especially) the relatively-recently-added "trans" variety, a representative image comes into my head. That image is of the broken and unnaturally-reconfigured toys from the 1995 movie 'Toy Story'. In light of the Disney Company's recently outed and directly-stated goal of being one such social monster, it is ironic that the company itself, in an earlier persona, prefigured the plague of mental disease to the spreading of which it would later deliberately aspire in a particularly memorable and well-tuned fashion. HERE'S ANOTHER IMAGE that I think is useful for representing the pathology of "queer" disintegration-- the "woman suit" being sewn together from skin taken from the victims of Buffalo Bill in 'Silence of the Lambs': Continued at https://losthorizons.com/N/198.htm#2