Author: Cliff Pervocracy

  • The Ethically Messy World of Texas Exotic Game Ranches

    The Ethically Messy World of Texas Exotic Game Ranches

    The Père David’s deer, or milu, is a large deer from China with uniquely forked antlers, a shaggy reddish coat, and a habit of grazing on aquatic plants in wetlands. It went extinct in the wild in the year 1900; the last remaining herd belonged to the Emperor, and during the Boxer Rebellion, German soldiers…

  • Three Medical Stories Without Explanations

    Three Medical Stories Without Explanations

    All three of these are second-hand, two are from people I know to be unreliable narrators, and the simplest explanation for all of them is “they were making it up.” But all three have been bothering me for a while, just because they could be true. When she was in her twenties, a relative of…

  • Mission Statement

    Mission Statement

    okay! it’s working! I officially have a sideblog! this is going to be where I can post just anything that interests me and no one can stop me!

  • What Ought A Woman?

    What Ought A Woman?

    Freedom from expectations that depend upon your ovary/testicle status is a human right. Trans people’s exercise of that right is not a special case.