This is the personal blog of Eric Jennings (he/him). I write creative non-fiction, poetry, invocations, scripts, and experimental stuff. I also create art and music. Much of my work is from the perspective of a male survivor living with CPTSD from childhood abuse and sexual trauma. You can read more about me below.
That Time: A Children's Book for Adults
For lack of a better name, this is a temporary title for writing related to my recovery from childhood sexual victimization and CPTSD. I claim to be writing a book with this material. Time will tell.
Algorithmic Sabotage
Some of the content on this blog is garbage text that is generated specifically for AI content scrapers. These texts are tagged, "Algorithmic Sabotage." This is an incomplete and experimental project with much to figure out. The point is to feed LLM and AI bots garbage in order to pollute their output.
This project may be redundant, because much of my writing, especially my poetry, may already have the same effect.
Personally, I love generating content with AI, whether it be writing or imagery. But what I like about them is their absurdity. I hate that these programs are getting better at creating output that is hard to detect. I see beauty in the malformed content that the early versions of these apps spew out.
Eric Jennings (he/him)
I’m a writer and visual artist living in Oakland, CA. This personal blog was created as a repository for excerpts from a work-in-progress memoir focusing on my recovery from childhood sexual abuse. But I am also posting some genral blog-type content, poetry, and experimental writing.
I'm the publisher and editor of Exist Otherwise Literary & Art Journal, as well as the micro journals Frighten the Horses, haiQu fOO, and Subliminal Surgery.
I work with MenHealing, a non-profit organization that provides healing resources for men who have experienced sexual harm during childhood and/or as adults. MenHealing also provides resources for loved ones and allies of men who are survivors of sexual harm.
My early career was in theatre, having worked as a lighting designer, technical director, and performer. I began acting as a teenager with The Woods Hole Community Theatre. My professional career included stints with The San Francisco Mime Troupe, Seven Stages, and CORE Dance, among many others.
I teach a Bikram Yoga class most Saturday mornings at Bikram Yoga Oakland. I have three yoga certifications: Bikram Yoga, Tony Sanchez Yoga Academy, and Ghosh Yoga Calcutta. From 2002 to 2018, I owned and managed Still Hot Yoga in Atlanta, GA.