Aug 13, 2021Revisiting "Accomplices not Allies"A helpful resource that I first encountered in 2017, perhaps earlier. Especially helpful in understanding foot-dragging by nonprofits...
Aug 12, 2021tipsfrom Tenacious Unicorn: one co-owner was raised on a farm. one co-owner had worked with the targeted animals before. start with growing...
Aug 10, 2021what do i mean by "the universe moving through us?"Sometimes it can be challenging or impossible to detect. One example is from an experience I shared with strangers at Lakeside Lab. I was...
Aug 8, 2021The mountains are sewing shades of blue together. Alpacas teach me about stillness. They are of a divine intelligence. They exert no more effort than is needed. They move at a steady...
Aug 7, 2021tenacious unicornOwners of Tenacious Unicorn Ranch experience a lot of folks declaiming the project for being "just white trans women" even though one of...
Aug 7, 2021I can't help but imagine this place underwater,how a mesa is like an oceanic ridge. This hillside is like a desert planet. Red soil patterned by wispy scrubs of thousand leaves, dusty...
Jul 22, 2021what I saw between Iowa and Coloradoflats of corn and soybeans turning to gently rolling hills, the kind in racing video games. i never suspected this kind of hill was real....
Jul 15, 2021beingsa transluscent snail from a wetland. video below shoes the snail gleaming on a woody stem of a plant that runs horizontal across the...
Jul 13, 2021"I lay in a field of grass once, and then went on. Even the hollow my body made was gone."- Janice Harrington, Shaking the Grass
Jul 10, 2021who is here? who is not? why?Who is here? White science students are here. White science interns are here. White naturalists are here. White administrative staff is...
Jul 10, 2021who is this land for?This land is not for us. This land is for the Sioux people, the Council of the Seven Fires, Oceti Sakowin, Yankton and Wahpeton. This...
Jul 9, 2021hybrids1. HYBRID CATTAILS. An invasive species in this area. They come up in a dinner conversation with an Ecology professor and a retired...
Jul 9, 2021[[decoloniz]]ingWow, I had no idea how close Lakeside Lab is to the Dakota Access Pipeline. I had assumed that Iowa Lakeside Lab would have some kind of...
Jul 8, 2021[[decolonize]]This is a list of resources I am investigating around decolonization of Turtle Island. In particular, I'm interested in building...
Jul 7, 2021how to follow this blogi chose to not put these words on social media because i don't want to support the evil things social media does to all of our...
Jul 7, 2021straight linesclose up, because there is no elevation that would allow you to see further. 2. The familiarity of grain silos. Their image is...
Jul 4, 2021🦦I started my first LiveJournal when I was 11. Despite many hours spent digging through the Wayback Machine, I've yet to find cache or...