Kelsey Blackwell's Race and the Body: Why Somatic Practices Are Essential for Racial Justice

“Racism is a visceral experience” - Coates && “Including the body…towards social justice…is the primary path forward” - Blackwell && “We focused our efforts in the wrong direction…white supremacy doesn’t live in our thinking …

Class warfare on Duolingo 🌹

Goings on about town: Iowa teen grew 7,000 pounds of veggies, then gave them all away

Over morning coffee, mixed with used iron goddess king tea leaves. Questions about things in paper. kopi pagi tambah daun teh raja dewi besi Why ya why ya why ya why ya why ya wanna why ya wanna Some people just have acres of arable land lying around to play with Why didn’t Lauren work with …

From the hunter to the tactical tornado. Man and his-story!

My soft animal body in the family of things

Passing along this Mary Oliver poem shared by Nate Mullen last week at the Metaspore Symposium in San Francisco. One his of white lady heroes. It’s the least my soft animal body in the family of things can do. You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred …

Excerpt from Decision Making in Brainless Organisms by Raechel Anne Jolie from collection Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forests

TERFism studies: Naziism for Transmisogynist Feminists

I’m still processing far too much from Week 1. Feminists Against Women: the Politics of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism. This is a course I didn’t realize I needed. It’s been a no-brainer to support the trans community against the likes of J.K. Rowling and other …

White theft/entrepreneurship

I’ve been reading two texts this week. Side-by-side they offer another reveal of the tragic double standard of black and white life in our America. That truth descends like an ashy film upon reaching 90 pages into Shoe Dog, Phil Knight’s memoir about creating Nike. On the one hand: a …