Camille E. Acey

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My occasional musings….

  • Gratitude February 2018

    A few things I have been grateful for as I get into this month. For some reason, I missed it when Beck dropped his latest album Colors in October of last year. I am glad I stumbled upon it recently. It is JAMMIN! #Rojava playlist. In northern Syria, women are leading (and literally fighting for!) Read more

  • “There is just one here.” The RuPaul & Oprah Winfrey 👑 SuperSoul Conversation

    https://youtu.be/nvfsOffJo-Y I am living for this! RuPaul is such a guiding light in my life. If you don’t listen to his podcast, What’s The Tee? already, girl you betta go get yo’ life! Read more

  • Some Stuff I Would Do If I Didn’t Have to Work for a Living

    Travel and spend time with my family (immediate travel list: Barcelona, Stockholm, Dakar, Sarajevo, Tokyo, Melbourne, and back to HK and Berlin) Sew Garden Spend more time in Slovenia Start an ice cream business in New Orleans (and find out how to make it not be work) Cook elaborate meals Learn to code Hardware hacking Read more

  • Fund What You Love

    I’ll be honest: I don’t love my job and I don’t think I’ve ever truly loved any job I’ve ever had since I began my working life in earnest. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve had several lovely work environments in beautiful offices with truly fantastic co-workers — many of whom I still count as my Read more

  • Gratitude: December 2017

    A few things that have been making me happy recently. The Improbable Dome Builders In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the brilliant thinker and architect R. Buckminster Fuller fell in with a ragtag group of Puerto Rican teenagers on the Lower East Side that came to be known by the name of CHARAS (a Read more

  • Gratitude: September 2017

    A few things I was grateful for this month: 1) Sydette Harry’s AffectConf Talk Finally! A talk at a tech conference by a black woman about *us* and how *we* survive and what *we* need. 2) Orphan Black I realized I was a season behind so I raced through season 4 and am just rounding Read more