A conversation with Tamiko Beyer. 'Poetry is this moment where you can actually start to shift reality through language.' From Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon (1785 - 1851 ). Tamiko Beyer is a poet, writer, activist, and communications strategist. Her 2013 poetry collection We Come Elemental
Those at the top will follow, because the world has changed around them Autumn, Helmer Osslund, 1907 Well, we seem to really be in the shit now folks, hold on tight. We did a lot of election talk last week and there is some a little further down there don’
We knew it was going to be like this, but that doesn’t mean we are short on surprises A history of the birds of Europe :.London :Published by the Author,1871-1881.. I don’t know what to say about Donald Trump having COVID, and there are not enough cliches
'Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice' The butterflies of the British Isles /.London :F. Warne,1906. Well it has been another rough week and I will link to related stories below but I wanted to get down some more thoughts on Where Do
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 can
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 a
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 we talk
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 individuals
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 nominally
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 the