blessed art thou amongst
new moon greetings
how are you?
i've had a funny week. all these past few weeks i've been seeing the queer cancer season astrology memes and people posting that they're in their feels, all the while feeling not much but hermit-like observation and calculations about action, risk, and trauma-that-maims (very Saturnian i suppose)... This week my month's-long stint of working from home ended and I was back in my old workplace, reconstructed and reopened after a fire. Lots of change. I was home on a Wednesday, smoked up a very heavy CBD blend, and laid on my couch watching bon appetit youtubes, when I thought – am I sad? And i was. hormonal fluctuation. wondering about testosterone and how much my body produces on its own and what would it be like with juuuuuust a little more. once while i was being tattooed, the artist and i were musing on how various masculine women writers and artists of previous generations eventually became trans men, and what's it all mean.
have you seen that shirt "strong powerful women beat arrogant men" ? it shows a densely muscular woman on top of a muscular man, who is trying to twist out from under her, and she is in the middle of punching him down. i wanted the shirt, but then i thought, i should be ready to fight wearing this. it's white (and i canNOT wear white clothing bc the dirt factor is too much work). and, the woman is a white/european-descended looking woman, and i'm conscientious about repeating that white western beauty imagery on my own body, when it is already so within the confines of white western beauty signifiers.
there's news, though.
i recorded my grimoire, DISCIPLINE WELCOMES BEAUTY.
you can listen to it here.
i'm also taking pre-orders for another print-run of the zine itself.
metropolarity's BAD USER AGREEMENT zine is underway, after closing our submission deadline waaay back in february. if you submitted something, you should be hearing back about that in the next few days. apologies on the severe delay.
meanwhile,
Philly kids, hey.
PARS is a database of arrests that updates in real time. It stands for Preliminary Arraignment Reporting System. When someone is arrested for a misdemeanor their country of origin, Social Security, and address are entered into this database, which is currently on a contract being shared by the city with ICE - Immigration & Customs Enforcement. Mayor Kenney was elected on the grounds that Philly be a sanctuary city, which means it will not cooperate with ICE, yet here is this PARS database bullshit going on where the city is basically handing over information that enables ICE to detain and deport more people. PARS x ICE contract ends in August, and that's why it's important to call and tell the Mayor to cancel that shit from here on out. Shout out @vamos_juntos_ whose been doing this major work for a minute now.
Remember! That's 215-686-2181.
215-686-2181.
Again that's 215-686-2181.
Someone on my twitter reposted this article from June 5th of this year, by Layne Mullet of DecarceratePA.
If politicians had the courage to imagine a future that did not need more cages, if we had invested in a future that honored the rights and dignity of all people, where could we be in 2018?
And elsewhere on these stolen and exploited lands...
Yep, one bite from the lone star tick—which gets its name from the Texas-shaped splash of white on its back—is enough to reprogram your immune system to forever reject even the smallest nibble of perfectly crisped bacon. For years, physicians and researchers only reported the allergy in places the lone star tick calls home, namely the southeastern United States. But recently it’s started to spread. The newest hot spots? Duluth, Minnesota, Hanover, New Hampshire, and the eastern tip of Long Island, where at least 100 cases have been reported in the last year. Scientists are racing to trace its spread, to understand if the lone star tick is expanding into new territories, or if other species of ticks are now causing the allergy.
I'm not going to share the article about how some demon libertarian won a lawsuit over 3D-printable guns, sike here it is.
I've been meaning to watch POSE. The other day while hanging by the Brandywine, I read almost all of The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions. When I try to look up what the Lenape names for the Brandywine creek are on Wikipedia, the information is buried at the end of a paragraph halfway down the page. When I look up history on the Algonquin or Iroquois peoples on Wikipedia, they all center around European contact. This is bullshit. I remember having to learn in a history class that the great library at Alexander in "the ancient world" was burned... It's bullshit that "the ancient world" in the United States refers to shit that happened on other lands. The context is always fucked. It's bullshit that the origins of mathematics and science, according to textbooks and popular science television, always start in fucking Greece. Where'd those Greeks get their shit from?
I guess kudos to Brandywine's own webpage for this
Historians tell us that the Lenape Indians called the Brandywine River, "Wawaset", "Sittacunck" and "Tankopanican".
Anyway, I found an English-language Mayan astrology jawn that some of you might like to try.
I find myself feeling suspect of my Many Moons workbook. I appreciate the journaling questions and tarot spreads, but the words do not reach me as well as they did before.
Things are changing.
Let's take care of each other.
monk
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