About Richard

I have been writing poetry for roughly 30 years. I do not write poetry with that goal of publication in mind, but rather, attempts to capture the healing of truths. I am writing non-fiction, and sometimes fiction, with the goal of eventual proper publication, despite how late in life such acts would be. I am a fervent believer in a greatly reformed educational system. I believe that hƒolds the key, or at least, a significant leaping off point to maintaining and initiating societal reforms. Yes, to many this is obvious, but implementing such an endeavor and to what extent it should be calibrated is something I have also worked on, through writings only (again, only sometimes available online). I am an independent researcher in Violence Studies, Feminist Theology, Education Reform, and Science Fiction. I am a recovered book collector, audiophile, and fountain pen addict. My interests include history, astronomy, literary theory, climate, radical geography, neuroscience, ontology, space and place, ecology, sociology, anthropology, and the relationship between technology and identity, or how society and institutions may evolve towards a humanitarian worldview ahead of technological development.

I am an independent scholar of various humanities. I am often distracted from those studies by writing poetry. I have lived with disability my entire adult life. I spent the majority of my life below the poverty line. I earned a master’s as an adult to escape, but barely an inch.

I am a big believer in community driven intra-degrowth, that is, degrowth that is more concerned with the immediate area, with each community doing the same. Degrowth that is feminist, anti-violence learning, care driven, open access anti-intellectual leader, and it is only in anti-utopianism that we can find a truer utopia.

There are more and more drifting towards an idea of holistic and mutually beneficial progress and in that there is hope. Open stewardship of open, shared education is the only way to assure if progress comes in the form of open access and anti-thought leaders so more individuals will be better able to maintain that shared progress.

I have a Master of Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University (mostly philosophy and ethics courses, but not restricted to that. Also digital humanities, history, and my master’s thesis was related to feminist theology). I also hold an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree from Portland State University where I focused on Women’s Studies, Conflict Resolution, and Literature. Additionally I attended an HBCU, Bowie State University, where I majored in English with a concentration in Africana. Though I don’t hold the additional degrees I took more than enough classes for a BA in English and almost enough classes for a BA in History. It all started at community college believe it or not. From community college to grad school at Johns Hopkins. I went back to school as non-traditional student. I was a first generation grad.

At one point I was a specialist on Burma / Myanmar. I was even on NPR. I co-founded an organization which collected books for learning centers for refugee camps throughout Southeast Asia.

It occurs to me to point out that you will not see me discussing any of the science fiction books that I read on this website. That is intentional. The issue is that I don’t want to write book reviews. That does not interest me. Not to mention there are already book reviews out there for every science fiction book ever written. I try to maintain writing about shows most sci-fi fans will have already seen, while keeping with the theme of ethics. That subject was drilled into my mind in grad school and most of undergrad, too. This isn’t a catch-all website tunnel. It is just my contribution.

I should also add that 100% of the posts here are written by me and me alone. Nothing written here is constructed, consulted, or brain stormed by AI available systems. Here is the article I was reading that made me realize I should offer that assurance and it is natural to assume AI generated websites will be, or have already started, launching all over the place.