so i’ve been to oakland a few times now… more than 5, less than 10. i really like it out here. if i’m honest, i think it’s because there are middle-class black people here alongside a long history of activism and struggle. if the bay weren’t such a gentrifying, water-insecure, fault-lined shitshow, i’d be way down to move out here. but it is. and i won’t (i think).
Read more...so i’m slowly working my way through the human current and i’m finding that i like the interview episodes the most. i’m currently digging into episode 011 with isaac morehouse and this one section around 11 minutes in.
Read more...adrienne maree brown’s outro in octavia’s brood has really helped crystallize some things for me. among them is a ton of clarification about the different types and elements of futurist storytelling. as grant and i wade through building out this alternative futures collective (af or afc) (which i’ve been thinking about a good bit), i wish i had read this excerpt first (and to be fair, someone at css told me to read octavia’s brood in 2015… i just didn’t listen. #ffs why don’t i listen?)
Read more...i mean this in the most genuine way possible: trauma and healing are blowing up right now. in so many different places and spaces, i’m hearing a ton about people doing work that addresses trauma, often via a desire to heal from it. (note this is interwoven with and also indicated by my recent obsession with bessel van der kolk).
Read more...last week, i was on two calls about futurist writing. the first was a reflective semi-wrap up call for the alternative futures (af) pilot round. the second was with some (new) friends in nairobi. both were with grant williams. some interesting insights bubbled up in those calls.
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