selected texts and talks on listening and attunement with relation to colonialism, capitalism and environmental racism.
more, including audio compositions, available on my website:
on listening as relation with @ZoeSTodd https://t.co/zkgSh92B99
The call to be in community is stronger than ever because the future is relational. Many of the things we are trying to anchor into the physical world such as healing, regeneration, and new ways of being cannot be done in isolation.
Visual artists: the brilliant Anga’aefonu Bain-Vete and Jack Eastgate are leading a VISUAL ART workshop on Wed 27 Nov in Suva 🇫🇯.
Apply to join by Mon 18 Nov: https://t.co/s0cvlDgXAk
CREATIVE WORKSHOP SERIES 🔊🎥🎨
Filmmakers: legends @TumeliTuqota and @dave_lavaki are running a FILM workshop on Tues 26 Nov in Suva 🇫🇯.
Apply to join by Mon 18 Nov: https://t.co/s0cvlDgXAk
CREATIVE WORKSHOP SERIES 🔊🎥🎨
Sound artists and podcasters: join @geotransversals, @joseph_kamaru, and me on Mon 25 Nov at the SOUND ART workshop in Suva 🇫🇯 - part of a 3-day CREATIVE WORKSHOP SERIES. 🔊🎥🎨
Apply to join by Mon 18 Nov: https://t.co/s0cvlDgXAk
Sound artists and podcasters: join @geotransversals, @joseph_kamaru, and me on Mon 25 Nov at the SOUND ART workshop in Suva 🇫🇯 - part of a 3-day CREATIVE WORKSHOP SERIES. 🔊🎥🎨
Apply to join by Mon 18 Nov: https://t.co/s0cvlDgXAk
Real lovers care about community. Real lovers think politically because they know they have to in order to show up for those they love. Real lovers listen and seek solutions. Real lovers protect. Real lovers lay foundations for trust. Real lovers create opportunities for others.
I am writing an overdue piece that engages in part with some of Al-Wardany's writing, and I have been sitting with this piece https://t.co/o2ymZvQxw4
"Sumoud صمود is actually to become a stone on expropriated land.../1
fuck netflix. links to view all but about 4 of these films (plus over 500 other Palestinian films) can be found in the Palestine Film Index here:
https://t.co/5Br1v7dFVC
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.
- James Baldwin
gotta work thru cat 5 hurricanes, pandemics, illness, disability. gotta work thru heatwaves, wildfires, and chemical plant explosions. gotta work thru genocides while navigating a techno surveillance militarized police state. mfs wanna say im too intense when this is what it is.
It’s pretty inhuman how this country leaves prisoners to die in every natural disaster, whether that’s a hurricane, heat wave, or pandemic. It’s an extension of the ordinary way that people behind bars are not considered human beings, and there’s hardly ever consequences for it.
Excited to be leading our workshop, “Listening to Fish and Water: the Art of Survival” at @HollyhockLife this coming week. This is going to be an amazing gathering of people & ideas. Excited to be IN PERSON with
@geotransversals this last week, too. ☺️☺️https://t.co/DzehoV7amw
They are forcing us to watch spectacles of death so we feel hopeless & become selfish in our complicity. In the face of this, insisting on life-disabled life, 'guilty' life, poor life, Indigenous life, Black life, Arab life, all the wretched of the earth-as precious, is our task.
@BenAndersonGeog also the fact that it was in hawai'i after explicitly being discouraged from going is notable. the disjunction between what we say we are as critical geographers, and what we do, is very telling
@BenAndersonGeog the cost, combined with zero covid mitigations, means i havent gone for many years, and potentially likely wont ever attend again. there is not enough being done to make it more accessible, and its appalling given how "socially conscious" the discipline imagines itself to be