these quilts are ways of creating my own legacy because I don’t have one that’s been handed down to me. I don’t have one that is available to me because of my queerness and my otherness, so the study of quilts for me is almost like a re-parenting type of shit, a way of creating my own story, my own legacy by looking at the idea that legacy doesn’t... See more
I drew this diagram to illustrate a lot of related insights about agency, hosting, community-building, collaborative leadership & social change
come with me now, the thread is long and full of bangers…
To reach an internet that cultivates mutual love, we have to move through the hate, pain, and existing preconceptions of what it is for and can be. We have to be able to first imagine, and then, create different possibilities for how technology can bring people together and help us create a better world.
I stopped looking at my phone because I was looking at something else, something so absorbing that I couldn’t run away. That’s the other thing that happens when you fall in love. Friends complain that you’re not present or that you have your head in the clouds; companies dealing in the attention economy might say the same thing about me, with my... See more
I am not proposing a return to the Stone Age. My intent is not reactionary, nor even conservative, but simply subversive. It seems that the utopian imagination is trapped, like capitalism and industrialism and the human population, in a one-way future consisting only of growth. All I'm trying to do is figure out how to put a pig on the tracks. —... See more
Michelle Boulous Walker, in her book, Slow Philosophy , equates the slow as a beginning way of thinking toward complexity, a passion with the world that can determine a kind of responsibility. Walker argues for a kind of dwelling in order to innovate.