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CMM0013–ORDER OF FLO with Joy and Rivkah
Drawing on themes from queer theory and responding to COVID-19, “Order of Flo” playfully dances along the lines of destiny at the intersection of bodily motion and mindful emotion. Melting the presentations of drag, queer bodies, and weird minds, “Order of Flo” trans-imagines dance, tarot, poetry, and glossolalia. The evening…
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We are the children of the cosmos
Does your thinkering lead to making or to doing? Does your doing and your making lead to thinkering?
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Gerrymandering and Woke capitalism
Repuglican Farty politicians have gerrymandered their way into not even knowing where corporations are coming from let alone most American citizens.
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Beholding the beheld
Truth, Beauty, and Joy each have different kinds of ideas and facts. Not knowing this distinction allows systemic bigotry to continue oppressing folx despite contradictory scientific discoveries, socio-cultural evolution, and personal evidence.
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Decolonizing Prehistory with World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture
“The idol was carved during an era of great climate change, when early forests were spreading across a warmer late glacial to postglacial Eurasia,” Dr. Terberger said. “The landscape changed, and the art — figurative designs and naturalistic animals painted in caves and carved in rock — did, too, perhaps…
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Muffins that are diabetic friendly
Quick recipe for making a high-protein, low-carb, low-glycemic goody.
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Care v. Romance
Stop confusing “manipulating an object of attraction to possess IT” with “embracing ANOTHER PERSON through, with, and in loving-care.“
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We’re Just Rediscovering a 19th-Century Pandemic Strategy
A century ago, the first way to fight a new virus would have been opening the windows. Miasma theory—discredited, of course, by the rise of germ theory—held that disease came from “bad air” emanating from decomposing matter and filth. This idea peaked in the 19th century, when doctors, architects, and…
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Mutual aid: Kropotkin’s theory of human capacity
Kropotkin’s theory of mutual aid remains cogent as ever, demonstrating the capacity for revolutionary change even in the harshest, most repressive environments. Source: Mutual aid: Kropotkin’s theory of human capacity
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Can Abolition Work in an Age of Right-Wing Extremism?
Punishment can radicalize and further alienate people, while social policy and grassroots community building can defuse potential violence.
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How Robbinghood makes money
The Wallstreetbets subreddit are furious after Robinhood stopped allowing trading on GameStop. Here’s how the “commission free” investing app makes money.
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Abolitionist vision, a society without prisons and police
Abolitionism is about more than dismantling prisons. It is also about building a world with universal access to safety, self-determination, freedom and dignity. Source: Anything is possible: toward an abolitionist vision | ROAR Magazine
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TRUMPISM as multiracial whiteness
The attraction of Trump for Latino voters is the promise of multiracial whiteness. Rooted in America’s ugly history of white supremacy, indigenous dispossession and anti-blackness, multiracial whiteness is an ideology invested in the unequal distribution of land, wealth, power and privilege — a form of hierarchy in which the standing…
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authoritarianism LINKED TO PSYCHOPATHY–New Study
The researchers found that heightened interpersonal and affective psychopathic traits were positively associated with social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism, which in turn were linked to increased anti-immigrant attitudes towards Middle-Eastern refugees and distrust of minorities.
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LOVE BEATS in the time of Covid
DJ9 “…made this mix between March 2020 and October 2020. It covers the period of time when the country underwent lockdown. It has a dreamy feel and was inspired by Boccaccio’s Decameron which was written during the 14th century plague otherwise known as the Black Death. Just as Boccaccio used…
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boring bourgeois banal
The thematic of my life is loving struggle through the fundamental attunement of profound boredom.
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Previously undiscovered neolithic circle of deep shafts near Stonehenge
As the area around Stonehenge is among the world’s most-studied archaeological landscapes, the discovery is all the more unexpected. Having filled naturally over millennia, the shafts – although enormous – had been dismissed as natural sinkholes and dew ponds. The latest technology – including geophysical prospection, ground-penetrating radar and magnetometry…
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