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Aroma of the World : November 2014
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What We Could Do Together. Thursday, November 27, 2014. I'm thankful for black rage. Poster at Seattle's 11/24 protest march in solidarity with Ferguson. If gratitude is the key to joy, then I am thankful for black rage. I AM thankful for everyone who has taught me not to fear moments of black rebellion like this one, everyone who has helped me embrace the love and life within angry crowds from Ferguson to Seattle. So Black rebellion is good news to all of us who are already seen by other white people as...
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Aroma of the World : Embodied Spirituality
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What We Could Do Together. Moments of serenity in deep meditation. Moments of intense anger, when we refuse to be humiliated and abused any longer. Moments of confidence when we find our selves:. Notes thrown into the universe. By its improvising, intertwining rhythms. Moments when we weave community. Incarnating a politics of love. Cooking dinner with mindfulness. Having a life-changing conversation. Ten thousand other experiences. These are the phenomena that many of us call "spirituality". Living, lov...
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Aroma of the World : April 2015
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What We Could Do Together. Sunday, April 26, 2015. Souls fertile as fuck. Fuckin’ with each other. 8216;cause we make our own gifts:. The city’s standardized sex. Beauty in all directions. 8216;till we fall in politics. Our homies’ arms. Our vibes and lips. This is a re-mix of Plato’s Symposium. Sam Cook’s Jesus Gave Me Water. Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus. And the Infinite Venom Girl Gang's essay “Against the Couple Form”. From Lies: A Journal of Materialist Feminism. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Aroma of the World : July 2014
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What We Could Do Together. Thursday, July 17, 2014. Spirituality: when our lives leak out of capitalism's pipelines. This is the first in a series of pieces analyzing contemporary spirituality and its relationship to the capitalist system. When Im done with all of these essays, I hope to put them together into a zine. . For this reason, we often find spirituality on both sides of the barricades in contemporary social conflicts. And this is significant because those barricades and conflicts are...The ph...
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Aroma of the World : When the white heckler said "No Lives Matter"
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What We Could Do Together. Thursday, May 14, 2015. When the white heckler said "No Lives Matter". This Saturday I was at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in solidarity with the Baltimore uprising against police brutality. We were gathered outside the Mariners game at the stadium and I was with a group of friends and comrades, mostly Black folks. A middle aged white man came up to us and started shouting "what would you do if the police shot a white person? I bet you wouldn't even care.". Then he just g...
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Aroma of the World : October 2014
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What We Could Do Together. Monday, October 6, 2014. The white-washing of the Italian diaspora. If we want to be part of a meaningful Italian diaspora, we have to reverse that process of white-washing, and join in solidarity with indigenous people whose lands we are living in. Instead of celebrating Columbus Day we should celebrate Indigenous People's Day, and maybe then it'll be meaningful to celebrate Sacco and Vanzetti day as well. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). From the Desert, Under Constantine. I haven...
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Aroma of the World : Philia
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What We Could Do Together. Wednesday, May 6, 2015. She said we get free with our hearts. He said that we bond with our heads. So i sensed the vibe of the congregation. And this is what i said:. What connects our heads and our hearts. Are necks we stick out for each other. When we get each others’ backs our hearts. Beat through them towards each other. But our heads stay faced out toward the crowds. So we can love in all directions;. We’re not a closed off family,. We’re a complex insurrection. I havent p...
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Aroma of the World : Neo-Platonic Love
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What We Could Do Together. Sunday, April 26, 2015. Souls fertile as fuck. Fuckin’ with each other. 8216;cause we make our own gifts:. The city’s standardized sex. Beauty in all directions. 8216;till we fall in politics. Our homies’ arms. Our vibes and lips. This is a re-mix of Plato’s Symposium. Sam Cook’s Jesus Gave Me Water. Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus. And the Infinite Venom Girl Gang's essay “Against the Couple Form”. From Lies: A Journal of Materialist Feminism. Let's Find Each Other. I have...
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Aroma of the World : Spirituality: when our lives leak out of capitalism's pipelines
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What We Could Do Together. Thursday, July 17, 2014. Spirituality: when our lives leak out of capitalism's pipelines. This is the first in a series of pieces analyzing contemporary spirituality and its relationship to the capitalist system. When I'm done with all of these essays, I hope to put them together into a 'zine. For this reason, we often find spirituality on both sides of the barricades in contemporary social conflicts. And this is significant because those barricades and conflicts aren't jus...
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Aroma of the World : St. Mary of Perpetual Revolution Pray
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What We Could Do Together. Thursday, May 14, 2015. St Mary of Perpetual Revolution Pray. For Black Lives Matter. The congregation sings and chants. Instead of working and worrying. Our lives away - the communion of saints. Hosanna in the highest. It’s like a beat looped through their bodies and ours,. From creation to infinity. But still all freestyling, perfectly imperfect. The beat is the left, and we’re it’s right hand. Singular variations in the multitude of liberations. As the organ beat drops.
