just a little casual silencing

for some of my more radical and outspoken friends, being silenced is a run-of-the-mill experience. but it’s never happened to me before and it happened for the first time on 6 april 2019 at 9.16am!

frequently used resources

• Diversity Toolkit: A Guide to Discussing Identity, Power and Privilege
• Oppression, Power, and Privilege: Matrix of Oppression
• interaction associates: little book of big change
• interaction associates: little book of big trust
• white supremacy culture by Tema Okun

a renga for alternative futures

earlier this year (feb), my alternative futures accomplice (grant williams) and i wrote a renga (instructions on renga writing here) as a step towards producing our futurist manifesto. the ‘festo is still on the way, but here’s the poem.

healing is painful, but it's not hurtful

“healing is painful, but it’s not hurtful. growing pains and healing pains are different from hurt.” — Djalóki Jean-Luc Dessables

what are the stories beyond the story that racism reproduces?

on page 68 of pleasure activism, dr. alexis pauline gumbs (someone i am obsessed with) wrote something that prompted a question for me that i think is important: