On nature, history, writing, politics and society,
by a neurodivergent, genderqueer, gay supernerd
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Is the Anthropocene so new? Sophocles on Human Dis-Integration from Nature (Antigone, 332-375)
A translation of a song from Sophocles’ Antigone, with commentary on the Anthropocene.
Emplacement: experiencing connection with place
Thoughts on finding connection within a space so that a space becomes a place and on the sacredness of landscape.
Men are suffering their gender as much as women in different, often hidden ways
Gender is a performance, and the performance given to men is toxic, and so men are feeling personally attacked. We can do much better. We must.
MIXTAPE II: BEHOLD, THE BLACKOUT (3/10/25)
I made you another playlist. I hope you like it! May it stoke the fire inside of you 💿🪩🖤
MIXTAPE: “THE CATEGORY IS DANCE” Millennial *bangerz-with-a-z*
I made a mixtape for you! It’s pure bliss for two hours. Take your mind off of it for a minute and get into the groove! ✊🖤🎶🎤🪩
So I wrote my younger self a letter
What if the #ghost/#monster in my #childhood bedroom was just #future me thinking so intently about my childhood self that I projected myself backward to him, to #support him in his childhood #isolation?…
Cardboard Art: I Understand
Aeschylus, Eumenides 276-279: ἐγὼ διδαχθεὶς ἐν κακοῖς ἐπίσταμαιπολλῶν τε καιροὺς, καὶ λέγειν ὅπου δίκησιγᾶν θ᾽ ὁμοίως· ἐν δὲ τῷδε πράγματιφωνεῖν ἐτάχθην πρὸς σοφοῦ διδασκάλου. Taught among evils, I understandthe right time for many…
Populism is not inherently far-right!
How could someone vote for Trump and AOC? It’s really not difficult if we step out of the dominant left-right framework into something more representative.
Don’t Blame Your Neighbors; Blame Party Leadership
Be serious: Harris was a bad candidate. So don’t blame your neighbors for not falling for it.
The Two-State Solution is an Obvious Bad Idea
What is workable about a two-state solution? (Hint: nothing.)
Reading List: Reintegrating with Nature
A reading list for thinking of ourselves not only as part of nature but as nature ourselves. (Yeah, I thought I’d already put this up a year ago lol whoops)
What’s the difference anyway?
Tell me how my vote matters when I’m voting for a kit over the other kat.
I want to hear Palestinian laughter—and not bitter, cynical laughter, but genuine joy
Watching Al Jazeera English this morning, like every morning since October, and it just occurred to me during his report on an aide convoy coming under IOF fire at the Kuwaiti roundabout, that…
Ocean won’t save Palestine
To witness the destruction of Palestine from afar is an unholy luxury, and it is traumatic, even at this distance, while no one does anything, and those who could help have been forced…
Pssst! Did any of y’all see The Magnificent Seven? Fighting off a colonialist army sounds awful familiar…
I saw this trailer for The Magnificent Seven the other night, and it was like watching the news out of the Levant. Liberation is always just.
Reading List: Palestine: History and Culture, Indigenous and Diasporic
Let’s read, deeply, about Palestine and its peoples. Make these humans in your mind as fully human as you! 🖤
Palestine: Resources Now
Ever heard of the Dahiya Doctrine? You outta know about it. Why was Biden’s announcement absurd? (Hint: Egypt had already been trying to send aid.) Get yourself an authentic Kufiya! Pledge BDS! Get…
We need to talk about US Indian boarding schools
We need to come together and acknowledge what was done to Native Americans in the name of “civilization.”
Don’t call yourself antifascist if you support the genocide of Palestinians
Do not waste your time listening to US media on the genocide of Palestinians: they are complicit. You can’t be antifascist and support the colonial genocide of the Palestinian people.
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