Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
I always prioritize how people feel.20 Is it a pleasure to be with each other? Does the agenda or space allow for aliveness, connection, and joy? Is there a “yes!” at the center of the work? There are so many things that are violent, offensive, unbearable. An embodied “no” is so justified—but I don’t believe it moves us forward.
“Yes!” has a future.
brown, adrienne maree; Rodriguez; Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi • Pleasure Activism
Edges are places where opposites meet. Where fear meets courage and suffering meets freedom. Where solid ground ends in a cliff face. Where we can gain a view that takes in so much more of our world. And where we need to maintain great awareness, lest we trip and fall.”
Dan Shipper / Superorganizers • You Grow from Your Edges
A fable is generally a fiction, as has already been said. It is a singular paradox, however, that nothing is truer than a good fable. True to intuition, true to nature, true to fact. The great virtue of fables consists in this quality of truthfulness, and their enduring life and popularity are corroboration of
Thomas Newbigging • Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern
we’re not so much tripping over nostalgia, revivals and retro but hoarding them. We have become pack rats of our collective past.
The Face • Our obsession with nostalgia is driving a trend revival spiral
As one man put it, “Especially now when the worst forms of masculinity feel ascendant, there are a lot of types of man I don't want to be, but very few visions of positive masculinity that I see and want to emulate.
Ann Friedman • A More Expansive Masculinity
The stuckness doesn’t just apply to arguments about guns. It applies to our sclerotic politics more broadly: the overlapping crises from climate inaction, the constant bungling of our pandemic response, and the seemingly successful attempt to roll back abortion rights. The stuckness isn’t part of a debate about how to move forward. It is, instead,... See more
Charlie Warzel • How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star
The real flat-earthers are the ones who make life into a flat-description. it will not serve now.
Nora Bateson, Combining
The colonisation of the imagination is like the deforestation and monocropping of our forests. The imagination starts as a wild and boundless place, and over our lifetimes becomes more and more constrained, and rigid.
Medium • Rewilding the Imagination
Whereas in the past a person wearing a Nirvana t-shirt was probably a fan of the band’s music, today no such guarantee exists (and many more shirts are sold). This often precludes one of the original purposes of merch, a signaling of belonging to a certain (sub)culture.
Still, the meaning-making of merch has not disappeared, but merely shifted. A
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