I guess this is my answer: I deactivated my Instagram on Wednesday because it was becoming too distracting. I plan to reactivate tomorrow. I just published a new essay you probably got an email about, and I’ve got another essay on the cult logic of neoliberal identitarianism slated for publishing tomorrow.
Basically, my essays are what I’ve been thinking about lol. I’m trying to catch up on my astrology course and get through Toward Freedom by Toure Reed, which I highly recommend. What about you?
Answers literally don’t have to be thoughtful you could say you just saw a bird fly into your window and that rocks.
I actually made a real forum like months ago and I ashamedly neglected it. I loved it but I took on too many projects! I think like 50 ppl joined. I want to resurrect it because it rocked, but the idea of having to moderate something sounds like my actual worst nightmare. Anyway I thought it would be cool to test out this bizarre function on Substack and see how it works. THANKS for indulging me. I hope people reply LOL
I have also deactivated Instagram - mainly because of procrastination and a looming deadline for our book on the climate crisis, ecofeminism and the bold new world we all know is possible... Have been thinking about online communities quite a lot as well during these past days, moving away from corporate social media seems the only way, so these are some ideas that were inspiring:
I really, really appreciate the two articles of yours that I just read on here, thank you. I am one of those people you mentioned with OCD and I am completely paralyzed by cancel culture, to the extent that I struggle with making and sharing my art, which is one of the most important things to me. Anyway, lately I’ve been thinking/learning/reading/listening to Freddie Mercury; his life story, fabulous outfits, incredible voice, gender-bending, and all around awesomeness 🥰
I’ve been thinking about humans as emotional creatures / animals and how we think we are logical but we are not. I’ve been reading Begin Again by Eddie Glaude and it’s amazing — beautiful analysis of James Baldwin.
Reading Don Quixote with two friends in Germany. We read about 20 pages a day. And on the last day, we’ll read the last chapter at the same time so we finish together. It’s a good way to read a book you might not otherwise read. Or finish.
Getting ready for the semester to start in a week and taking care of my plants. I'm reading On this Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and it's actually making me cry. Like I don't think a book has ever made me cry before! The hype is real. Also creating a Moodle page for the Neurodiversity Club that I started at school and hoping to help neurodivergent students stay in school and succeed. So, lots of zoom meetings this week with various people in the administration.
I realized I was using social media wellness discourse to fill a void left by the intensity of previous cult-like experiences and that I was spending wayyy too much time focused on my “healing” and that what I really needed to do was stop trying to change my personality and do something productive for a change! So I’m writing again :)
I actually made a real forum like months ago and I ashamedly neglected it. I loved it but I took on too many projects! I think like 50 ppl joined. I want to resurrect it because it rocked, but the idea of having to moderate something sounds like my actual worst nightmare. Anyway I thought it would be cool to test out this bizarre function on Substack and see how it works. THANKS for indulging me. I hope people reply LOL
I have also deactivated Instagram - mainly because of procrastination and a looming deadline for our book on the climate crisis, ecofeminism and the bold new world we all know is possible... Have been thinking about online communities quite a lot as well during these past days, moving away from corporate social media seems the only way, so these are some ideas that were inspiring:
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Love this, I've been reading the chalice and the blade and thinking about ghosts. And I did see a bird! but it did not fly into my window
I really, really appreciate the two articles of yours that I just read on here, thank you. I am one of those people you mentioned with OCD and I am completely paralyzed by cancel culture, to the extent that I struggle with making and sharing my art, which is one of the most important things to me. Anyway, lately I’ve been thinking/learning/reading/listening to Freddie Mercury; his life story, fabulous outfits, incredible voice, gender-bending, and all around awesomeness 🥰
I’ve been thinking about humans as emotional creatures / animals and how we think we are logical but we are not. I’ve been reading Begin Again by Eddie Glaude and it’s amazing — beautiful analysis of James Baldwin.
Reading Don Quixote with two friends in Germany. We read about 20 pages a day. And on the last day, we’ll read the last chapter at the same time so we finish together. It’s a good way to read a book you might not otherwise read. Or finish.
Getting ready for the semester to start in a week and taking care of my plants. I'm reading On this Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and it's actually making me cry. Like I don't think a book has ever made me cry before! The hype is real. Also creating a Moodle page for the Neurodiversity Club that I started at school and hoping to help neurodivergent students stay in school and succeed. So, lots of zoom meetings this week with various people in the administration.
I realized I was using social media wellness discourse to fill a void left by the intensity of previous cult-like experiences and that I was spending wayyy too much time focused on my “healing” and that what I really needed to do was stop trying to change my personality and do something productive for a change! So I’m writing again :)