Keely Adler

In recent years, nearly every part of the contemporary human experience, from work to sex to church to sin, has been remoted and abstracted for our convenience.

metalabels are startups and institutions for culture.

The repetition of the word “immersed” is interesting, as it suggests this is not something these women studied, that instead it was a liquid medium they splashed around in – maybe something like the therapeutic bath Higgie takes, describing it with more depth and in greater length than she goes into the religious beliefs of any of these artists --

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Keval hypothesizes that this kind of cooking is powerful because of how it grants colonized subjects a degree of agency. By adapting the cuisine of their occupiers and warping the “authentic” flavors with their own, they’re able to reframe that relationship on their own terms.

There’s coercion through kinship ties — aka, the person in need of care is my father, or my Aunt, or my kid, and it is my responsibility to provide it for them, even if I don’t particularly want to or am even able to.

Community, according to the clinical and community psychologist David McMillan, can be defined by four conditions: membership, influence, integration and fulfillment of needs, and shared emotional connection.