1332 || responding to the dystopian reality
"The constant generation of novel and fantastic apocalyptic scenarios serves to extend the horizon for the arrival of the hellish conditions contained in dystopia - if oppression is a nebulous but eve...
11 Jan 202510min
1331 || the dystopia is already here
The dystopia isn’t coming, it’s been here, and we’re finally starting to see it. Fictional dystopias are not imaginative horrors - they are reframed versions of lived experiences for marginalized comm...
10 Jan 20259min
1330 || "convenient" isn't always good
"We must never forget the joy of doing something slow and something difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest." - Tim WuTHE SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyr...
9 Jan 20257min
1329 || filling your cup IN community
"The burnt out don't need more alone time." - Ayesha Khan Ph.D."A world where we are isolated is a world where it is easier to pit us against each other." - Luke AllenRESOURCE 1: https://wokescientist...
8 Jan 202510min
1328 || true community is inconvenient, too.
Capitalism + consumer culture has taught us that independence = success, but what if our culture is wrong? What if community's inconveniences are less cumbersome than the inconveniences that come from...
7 Jan 20259min
1327 || true friendship is inconvenient
"That's why it's hard to make friends when you're older," she said. "Friendship is rude." Her friend's eyes widened. "What?" "Think about it! When we're kids we decide who we like and stick by them no...
6 Jan 202510min
1326 || tyranny of the ideal woman (part two)
Jia Tolentino said "We have not “optimized” our wages, our childcare system, our political representation; we still hardly even think of parity as realistic in those arenas, let alone anything approac...
5 Jan 202510min
1325 || the tyranny of the ideal woman
Jia Tolentino said "Figuring out how to “get better” at being a woman is a ridiculous and often amoral project – a subset of the larger, equally ridiculous, equally amoral project of learning to get b...
4 Jan 20258min
