amaryah.bsky.social
Academic by day, woodworker in the afternoon, domestic dyke at dusk, songwriter at night, clueless gardener at dawn.
watching movies as praxis.
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Here’s a picture of what finished stools look like. It’s a Moravian stool: blog.lostartpress.com/2013/04/12/m...
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These two silly guys
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Thanks! I was planning to apply milk paint to them but now I’m like, maybe I shouldn’t?!
(milk paint ex:)
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My fav Le Guin quote. It’s from the Dispossessed
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if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
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the way debt or the threat of debt and impoverishment appear in the 19th century novel is one of the most affecting. Like, Pride and Prejudice would not hit the way it does were there not the threat of the sisters ending up destitute. I get so caught up in how many pounds a year ppl need to live!
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Which is not to say they can't be addressed, but that the language of material conditions fails precisely because it ignores the material conditions for how they're making sense... anyways, Cedric Robinson is totes right on the mixture of reason and irrationality in the West's political foundations
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Alongside that: a good test for behavior that you should avoid bringing into an organizing space is to simply ask yourself: "what would happen if I did this at a Waffle House?"
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Time to read Melinda Cooper again (seriously, Family Values is one of the most important books of the past 20 years at least)
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It just seems really clear that the revanchist political backlash of the 70s and 80s that gives us neoliberalism had to be so brutal because what was being built was so mundanely enriching for people and the lives they were making
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In my mind these emerging terms signal something about the desire and almost compulsion to try to speak about everything at once—a way of trying to get around the inherent limits of language and so a lack of creativity in the use of language