Category: social justice
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Gratitude February 2023
South Africa Owing to my humble service on the Whose Knowledge? board, I was graciously invited by the team to join them on their annual retreat in KwaZuluNatal, South Africa. It was a beautiful 10 days and I certainly hope it will not be my last time in South Africa. I have so much more…
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Building Laterally: Visions of Mutual Power
On 19 January 2022, I joined Njera Keith of 400 + 1 and Liz Barry of Public Lab in conversation with Rayya El Zein of the Digital Infrastructure Incubator of Code for Science & Society in “Visions of Mutual Power”, a wide-ranging and illuminating conversation about radical visions for building and holding power.
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In Plain Sight
I’ve been really into James Scott (see: Seeing Like A State and Two Cheers For Anarchism) and Anna Tsing (see: The Mushroom At The End of The World and On NonScalability) for some time, and I recently got hip to this amazing artist Kenya Robinson (https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/kenya-robinson). The thing she said on that podcast was so…
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Everything Is About Time
I feel like everywhere I turn people are talking about time. Here are a few recent references AmarElo This documentary was so gorgeous. It opened with the saying, “Eshu threw a stone today that hit a bird yesterday.” Emma Dabiri – Don’t Touch My Hair The weaving that occurs in the braided hairstyles, the aspects…
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Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police Because reform won’t happen. By Mariame Kaba (reprinted without permission from the NYT) Ms. Kaba is an organizer against criminalization.June 12, 2020 Congressional Democrats want to make it easier to identify and prosecute police misconduct; Joe Biden wants to give police departments $300 million. But efforts to solve police violence through liberal…
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Kollaps und Mutualism
Since the lockdown/”PAUSE” order was issued here in so-called New York nearly a month ago, a group of friends and I have come together to discuss the current collapse/failure of the state and what we radicals might make in and of it. For our first session, we discussed technologist Vinay Gupta‘s concept of resilience maps…
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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power
“The erotic is the nurturer or nursemaid of our deepest knowledge.” – Audre Lorde
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Gratitude – December 2019
I can’t believe the year is almost over. What a whirlwind it has been! Before it come to a close, here is some stuff that has given me life in the last month or so…. Interview on Pleasure Activism with adrienne maree and autumn brown I don’t even know where to start. adrienne maree brown…
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Rewrite The Docs at ATO 2019
If you’re here because you saw my talk at All Things Open 2019, thank you!! If you are here just because, thank you too! 🙂 The original blogpost that my talk was based on is here and below are links to some of the organizations I mentioned. The ones that accept donations are indicated with…
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Gratitude: August 2019
Before the month is out, I just want to share a few things that gave me life as of late. The Last Black Man In San Francisco This movie was stunningly beautiful. When I saw the trailer I thought it was going to be sort of the same thing as Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy…
Camille E. Acey 