As the United States races toward authoritarianism, it is using the word “terrorist” on practically everyone, making most of us potential targets of state violence.
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carla joy
@joyfulcarla@kolektiva.social
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it's easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of hierarchy.
Solidarity across all space and time
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a photo of me sitting with my back towards the camera. i am reading a book and my feet are resting on a book/record shelf!
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a painting of a person playing a piano that is on fire at the shoreline (painting by Luca Ponsato)
omg! this project keeps being stalled.... in part bcz of my own capacity but also due to so many little things -- and big things like tariffs...
we hope to share the pre-order for the militant joy cards before end of april....
fingers, toes, and eyes crossed!
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writing a kids book takes mad skills! im not saying im good at it, but im good at spotting the shite!
nothing like writing about joy to help you find your way out of the darkness...
(at least a tiny bit).
joy is such a little trickster!
RE: @firestorm@kolektiva.social
do a solid and help these wonderful friends out (lot's of ways on how to do it in the post), and continue to support fabulous alternatives to the capitalist system!
ps i never do book events, but I did one with them for Trust Kids! bcz they're awesome!
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and an adjacent ugh is for all the adults writing about kids lib or being a rad parent/teacher/etc who are keeping the conversation about themselves, evoking adult supremacy constantly-- the adult gaze is a mofo.
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@grayhaven i'd have to think about it more.... but off the top of my head. all kids books by (or illustrated by) Julie Flett, and these are more all ages but books by Shaun Tan.
We Palestinians Are Not Going Away ZINE
free and downloadable.
PSA: nick & I have created militant joy cards! Drawing from Joyful Militancy, the cards offer quotes, nudges, quips & reminders to help us tune into our collective capacities. There's no grand correspondence to elements or astrology in these cards -- they're militant, joyful & fun!🎴 they're nerdy af too. page numbers are included for each quote used and they're orgnized in 8 themes/categories...
COMING SOON
https://www.akpress.org/joyful-militancy.html
for the beauty of bloom scrolling
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@adamgreenfield at first i was in love with the Kintsugi cover but ofc Kintsugi is about so much more than maintenance... and sounds like especially this person's take on it.. so given what you're saying the cover is perhaps a warning 😛
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@abolisyonista it's in the cracks, spreading horizontally, relationship to relationship... often not noticed bcz when it's seen it's captured by those who only see the political
“it’s the greening of the trees
that really gets to me.”
Ada Limón
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@AdrianRiskin YES TO THIS! Pippi got me through life! and I dressed up as her many times!
there are problems with this city, but the way daffodils roam free here is inspiring... and they are damn mighty too -- they stand tall at the edges of cliffs where they are constantly met with gusts of fierce westerly winds and ocean spray, and yet they thrive.
RE: @knead_i_say_more@skatspelunke.eu
always and forever!
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@rechelon@mastodon.social this is what me and my partner are doing today (photo)
@nobonzo@kolektiva.social
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@tiotasram thanks for some ideas...
Flett's are bcz they are decolonial in every way... there is no adult supremacy or didactic storytelling present. kids are never going to school or spending their time engaging in only typical kid norms in her stories.
stories about showing how we are already otherwise by amplifying stories of mutuality and autonomy across age and species etc etc are some of the most powerful ways of making worlds and affirming kids experiences, this ofc includes showing some of the "darker" elements too.. *what shaun tan is brilliant at.. see Red Tree for example... im not saying it needs to be all nice, etc.
obv i agree
compos(t)ing dreams
just need to give A HUGE thank you for compression socks!!
Bcz fvck! I would be in bed so much of the time without them and while i love a good long morna in bed walking and dancing are pretty much everything to me.
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@compost_funeral yes very much. I have noticed that kids very much love these kinds of stories! often alongside the sweetest of ones, like Little Bear or Winnie the Pooh! I think some of the best storytellers for kids are people who fully remember what it was like to be a kid in the world... @AdrianRiskin
nothin' like doing taxes to be re-traumatized by the year of hell
for my theory/punk philosophy show, walking with change: who should i have on next ?
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@adamgreenfield true enough. (one of the first things i wrote for others to read was called Kill the Buddha!).
RE: @joyfulcarla@kolektiva.social
"the deepest ideological structure that can be an obstacle with sharing money though is the idea of property. When people don’t actually own property as land (or house), then their money is the property they do have. Property is completely bound up with selfhood (in French you can see the ideological tangle quite clearly in the etymology: the root propre can work as an adjective to mean one’s own or to be clean). Property creates privacy, a sense of one’s self, and it also protects us from the uncleanliness of not owning. Money becomes an object that stands in for this–even as a total abstraction, like a number in a bank account. " -- Stone Telling, aka ghost writer for CAW
🐦⬛NEW Ask a Crow is up!🐦⬛
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A reader wrote in with this:
“Why is talking about how we share money or even talk about class in a straightforward way so bloody hard? I’d love some advice on how to approach this issue.”
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Our ghost columnist, Stone Telling” gave some damn good advice! ✨🐦⬛💰🐦⬛✨
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on repeat in this timeline.
CAW NEWS
for launch week: we are announcing our first annual Summer Solstice CAW (Corvid Anarcho Witchcraft) Writing Circle with carla and Dani. Join us as we weave spells and reflect on the glimmers persisting through these shadowy times...
https://www.cawshinythings.com/summer-solstice-writing-circle-with-caw/
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@abolisyonista i have no idea!
im a many worlds, many politics, many nows, many futures kinda punk
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@yaxu@post.lurk.org i very much agree with this list and can check more than a few as to why i don't attend these... AND.... i usually don't like my talks being recorded for MANY reasons........... i dunno