it feels so good to sweep something under the rug. like swish it's gone

Anne Carson, Nox

looking at vintage manuals from Archive.org for a zine I'm making for work -- can you BELIVE how gorgeous the illustrations are from this 1970 polish tractor guide

Archive.org - Ursus C-335 Manual

poem by mosab abu toha pasted to ironwoodfarmny’s truck traveling from Ghent, NY

German artist Wolfgang Laib’s “Pollen From Hazelnut” (2012, MOMA), a glowing colour-field made only of hazelnut pollen he’s collected himself over twenty years from hazel catkins near his southern German village.

BWAAAAHHHHH wake the fuck up everyone on earth

birds flying over the jurassic canyon of Iceland

Beetle feeding galleries on a wych elm

Beetle feeding galleries on a wych elm

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‘Despair is paralysis. It robs us of agency. It blinds us to put own power and the power of the earth. Environmental despair is a poison every bit as destructive as the methylated mercury in the bottom of Onondaga Lake. But how can we submit to despair while the land is saying “Help”?

Restoration is a powerful antidote to despair. Restoration offers concrete means by which humans can once again enter into positive, creative relationships with the more-than-human world, meeting responsibility that are simultaneously material and spiritual. It’s not enough to grieve. It’s not enough to just stop doing bad things.’

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

IF WE WANT THE REWARDS OF FINDI G OUT WE HAVE TO SUBMIT TO THE MORTIFYING ORDEAL OF FUCKING AROUND

a moment of seeming dumb from asking a question is rewarded by a lifetime of then knowing the answer

Sara Ahmed in conversation with Judith Butler at Christ's College, April 2023

"because of who is assembled here, because of all the trails that have been left behind by those who deviated from the paths they were told to follow."

It is this sense of queer knowledges in sedimented layers that I hoped to convey with my title tonight. In the geologic record, certain strata are fossil rich, partly because of the conditions that produce luxuriant life forms and partly because of the conditions that favor their preservation in fossil form. Similarly, there seem to be periods in which social and political conditions have favored the abundant proliferation of queer knowledges, while other conditions dictate their preservation or destruction. And it is up to succeeding generations to ensure that such sedimentary formations are identified, excavated, catalogued, and utilized to produce new knowledge. Unfortunately, because of the lack of durable structural mechanisms to secure the reliable transfer of queer knowledges, they are often instead lost, buried, and forgotten.

"Geologies of Queer Studies" - Gayle S. Rubin, Deviations (2011)

Mark yr calendars, I somehow got invited to do an artist talk at Pitt on all the stuff I've been rolling around in for the last twelve years. Not sure who the target audience would possibly be except you guys!!!

The Palestinian (1977)

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, Angela Y. Davis