The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind Key-west Dove from Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon, etched by William Home Lizars. I was talking in therapy the other day about anger and how it
Things that were once freak occurrences steadily become routine events, and then one day, here we are Crows at Twilight, Shibata Zeshin 柴田是真 (1807-1891), Arthur M. Sackler Gallery https://asia.si.edu/object/S1997.72/ Well every month it seems some fresh serving of hell is delivered up as
The lie that’s told to us over and over again that without oppression we are monsters Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds.London :H. Sotheran & Co.,1891-98. CW: There’s a brief reference to sexual violence in this one. When
Things we consider to be matters of personal choice have implications far beyond personal well-being Termitenhugel in Sennar. Illustration for Brehms Thierleben Allgemeine Kunde des Thierreichs (Bibliographischen Instituts, c 1880–90). For the past 72 years and counting, epidemiologists have been monitoring the behavior and health of thousands of
Please join me for a stroll about the grounds From The Invisibles, by Grant Morrison. Also the header image from Crisis Palace #1. Welp it has been just over a year since I started this newsletter that is nominally about climate change, but also about social movements, activism, philanthropy, and
A conversation with Cadwell Turnbull, author of The Lesson, about science fiction, colonialism, and redefining utopia Elements of conchology, or, An introduction to the knowledge of shells. 1776. The Lesson, the debut novel by Cadwell Turnbull, is one of best sci-fi novels I’ve read in years. It’s
Technocrats are no longer setting the agenda and activists are taking over Fauna ibérica; mamíferos Madrid, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, 1914. So I want to talk about Joe Biden’s climate plan, whoa whoa hang on come back. Mainly I want to talk about the process by which his
'People who want democracy to happen on their own terms are doing fascism even if they use the language of democracy' Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands. 1885-1897. Last week this infamous letter was published in Harper’s and it was all anyone in
Reducing the struggle to a time-limited, painful means to an end American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States, 1808-1814. There’s an attitude in the nonprofit world OK could be the white nonprofit world OK could just be white progressives in general
The impacts of protests are often profound but unpredictable Boston with its environs in 1775 & 1776 The scale of the protests against police violence and systemic racism over the past few weeks is unprecedented. Demonstrations are happening in all 50 states, even in small conservative towns with mostly white
We look back on this chapter in history with self-congratulatory warmth, but loathed it as it happened The Monk by the Sea (German: Der Mönch am Meer) by Caspar David Friedrich 1808-10 Last year, a person you might remember named Barack Obama was addressing a group of wealthy
Things that do a better job of solving problems we currently entrust with men carrying tools that cause death and pain Epomops francqueti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. One time I was interviewing someone at a foundation that funds climate work and he posed to me this question: