disruption

Disruption? Yes, let’s talk about disruption. The word summons up demons. Cracks open in the ground, as the crust of the earth swells from an upwelling of energy at the throbbing outskirts of the planet’s core. Out of the jagged

slippery positions

As a self-defined Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet, Audre Lorde is the model representative for intersectionality. As such, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches has become a ubiquitous text in undergraduate courses, for the theory and practice of intersectionality; a way

south/south cities

I currently live in the Netherlands, but I took the overnight bus to Paris recently to reconnect with a cousin who was traveling there on business. I do not speak French beyond a Je m’appelle level, but the cousin and

weaponized information, distributed

For anyone following the saga of Defense Distributed and their mission to create a 3D printable gun, that the US government has stepped in and demanded that the designs be taken offline is not a huge surprise. The Liberator, as

in between the ruins on the edge of the salton sea

The Salton Sea in Southern California is the story of an ongoing, gigantic, human-created accident. The Sea is the largest lake in California, residing in a endorheic basin (a basin lower than sea level, without any natural outlet) right above

a pleasant post-apocalypse

You don’t need burnt pastures, bleached bones, and a trickle of muddy water in order to understand the apocalypse, as much as it may help. The apocalypse, after all, is more than the destruction of an environment. The apocalypse is

the accumulation of ruin-space

I think a great deal about Ruin Space: the capacity for a site, a structure, or an object to be “ruined,” such that it can be said to be wholly apart from the state of its original design and creation.