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  • 2025-02-07: VALERIE, a radical feminist zine I contributed to, is out now! You can get the digital version for free, or wait a little bit until physical copies become available for purchase. (Please note I will not be getting any money from any purchases.)
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  • 2025-02-06: Going through a major abdominal surgery next week. I will be in severe pain for a while. Please do not ask me for anything you would not be willing to wait a few days for.
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The Story of Stuff Annie Leonard Casual

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A Life Less ThrowawayTara ButtonCasual
Bill Watterson, the writer of the brilliant Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip, was under constant pressure to make merchandise out of the strip - Hobbes cuddly toys and Calvin bumper stickers - but he realised that by doing that, his purpose for writing would shift from creativity to selling things, his characters would lose their voices and then the money he earned would have to supply all the meaning he needed.
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Thrifty GreenPriscilla ShortCasual
The deal was that I would give them my time, energy, and skills, and they would give me money. The fine print that I had only skimmed said that I would also give them my ideals, principles, physical fitness, and mental stability. In exchange, they would give me stress, "core values," and lip service to work-life balance - ironically, a phrase coined by the corporate world where there is none.
The downside to me was obvious once I stepped back and looked at it: I was sacrificing all aspects of a healthful life for a paycheck.
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Can't Buy My LoveJean KilbourneCasual
Advertising encourages us not only to objectify each other but also to feel that our most significant relationships are with the products that we buy. It turns lovers into things and things into lovers and encourages us to feel passion for our products rather than our partners.
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Poetry and CommitmentAdrienne RichAcademic
Poetry is not a healing lotion, an emotional massage, a kind of linguistic aromatherapy. Neither is it a blueprint, nor an instruction manual, nor a billboard. There is no universal Poetry anyway, only poetries and poetics, and the streaming, intertwining histories to which they belong.
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DoppelgangerNaomi KleinCasual
...if there is a message I should have taken from the destabilizing appearance of my doppelganger, this is it: Once and for all, stop eavesdropping on strangers talking about you in this crowded and filthy global toilet known as social media.
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How Fascism WorksJason StanleyCasual
The chief reason we have free speech in democracy is to facilitate public discourse about policy on the part of citizens and their representatives. But the kind of debate where one shrieks insults at another, not to mention engages in physical violence and then denounces protest as an attack on speech, is not the relevant kind of public discourse that free speech rights are meant to protect.