on better futures

Let’s go over the top, embrace the reality of modernity, and do something useful with it.

Worldbuilding, for me, was a form of expansive hope—a necessary imagination for being alive.

How do we spot ‘glimmers’ of the futures we all dream of? What forms of knowledge, and whose voices do we need to be attuned to, to ensure we are seeing these possibilities for what they are?

I have learned to take the construction work of organizing as it comes, creating things that I believe have to exist, and working with others to build containers, organizations, and projects that I believe the world needs. I am always dreaming up new ideas and making things, because the world is not transformed primarily by what we think of it.

We should be optimistic not because our problems are smaller than we thought, but because our capacity to solve them is larger than we thought.

claiming it's over is just an excuse to avoid building what's next.

We could bemoan the fact that things have come to this, or we could steal the tricks and channel all of that weird energy into something productive, something that makes peoples’ everyday lives better.

when you aren’t just dismantling the narrative but providing another one, you are creating a new reality for your audience.

If you have ever found yourself hoping for the future, yet, at times, it feels too big or too impossible; I hope you can carve out some space to dream in your own way and keep building on those dreams. Keep imagining what could be, even if you don’t know how it makes sense yet.