Revisiting "Accomplices not Allies"
A helpful resource that I first encountered in 2017, perhaps earlier. Especially helpful in understanding foot-dragging by nonprofits...
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- Aug 11, 2021
tips
from 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, 2021
what 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, 2021
The 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, 2021
tenacious unicorn
Owners of Tenacious Unicorn Ranch experience a lot of folks declaiming the project for being "just white trans women" even though one of...
- Aug 7, 2021
I 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 21, 2021
what I saw between Iowa and Colorado
flats 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, 2021
beings
a 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, 2021
who 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, 2021
who 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, 2021
hybrids
1. 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]]ing
Wow, 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 6, 2021
how to follow this blog
i 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 6, 2021
straight lines
close 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
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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...