he/they, él/elle • born in Colombia. adopted. Brooklyn based • miranda family artistic fellow @ Repertorio directing mentee @wingspace practice disruption.
Minnasotans refuse to allow the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis to kidnap a woman, until finally the Nazis uncuff the woman they're dragging and run for their lives. 🙌💪👏✊️👇
a horrifying video
imagine feeling instinctively pulled to do a task. something that goes beyond your personal ambitions, your environment, or your job. something that comes from genetic instructions, placed down there over millions of years of evolution, screaming at you from generations past
now imagine that task being impossible to do in any satisfactory way. the beaver cannot feel the water, cannot find the wood. there are genetic signals to gather items for the dam, but all the beaver can accomplish in the end is a stage three simulacra. what it will create in this artificial environment will forever be lacking in the eyes of their evolutionary instincts
the beaver KNOWS there are unfinished things to do, but it cannot even conceive of what that could be. where is the water? where is the wood? what are these items meant to do? what is the purpose of it all? the beaver does not know. its brothers in the forest do, but that knowledge is forever beyond this domesticated one, who has never even been outside of an air conditioned room
but it continues its toil, because the beaver cannot understand that its evolutionary ordained tasks are useless here. the rules of its environment have changed, but it lacks the faculties to recognize that; i simultaneously pity the creature and see myself in it
the most useful advice I received after the 2016 election was -- to combat the coming chaos and cruelty and tactics to make you feel powerless & overwhelmed -- was to pick one cause I care about and direct my time, money, and/or resources towards it. the more local, the better.
It took several days to count every ballot in 2020, and it’s very likely we won’t know the outcome tonight either. So please keep a few things in mind as you make your voice heard today:
– Thousands of election workers around the country are working hard today. Respect them. Thank them.
– Don’t share things before checking your sources.
– Let the process run its course. It takes time to count every ballot.
Hearing words of encouragement and genuine joy about your work from someone you've admired from afar for nearly 4 years is just... invaluable
I hope I can do the same for others in the future because I can't shake this feeling of joy, pride, and growth
I found my first jobs in NYC through Twitter, so I gotta share this here:
Hiring a producing asst. for development of a new play - $20/hr for 38hrs between now and beginning of October. Work is primarily remote
Send over you resume and let's chat!