Figuring out my media consumption, day 1
IIn an effort to make some kind of sense out of my going-everywhere-all-the-time brain, I’m thinking of ways to track & remember all the people, articles, and ideas that are swimming through my every day life. Not only keep them straight in my mind, which might let me dive deeper into ideas that stick, but also amplify the voices of amazing, fascinating people in my own little internet bubble. I’m still out how this would be meaningful, both to me personally and as an internet person. Experiment! Plus I miss the old internet posts that were just lists of links.
Self Help Graphics - LA-based screenprinting co-op with pretty serious social justice cred and community commitment (their mission statement is great, specific, and pretty ambitious but hey, they’ve been around since 1970 so heyyy). Even more exciting to me, they had (have? unclear) the Barrio Mobile Art Studio, a screenprinting studio set up in a step-van to take to schools and events. I’ve been working on an as-yet-unnamed 1948 travel trailer to do the same thing, so this is so encouraging! (DONATE <3)
Taala Hoogan Infoshop - There’s an Indigenous Infoshop & screenprinting joint in Flagstaff?! So happy with this discovery. I fucking love anarchist spaces. I really appreciate their answer to “how can you be anti-capitalist and still run a business,” which I’ve been talking about with my partner. Their answer, in essence: our intentions for the money aren’t for capitol gain or prestige, we are not profit-driven, we use this money in the community and to challenge authoritarian systems. Also I love that their t-shirts come with suggested reading lists. I’m going to read their zine on Accomplices not Allies, since as a cis white chick it’s something I need to get way better educated on. (DONATE <3)
Mobile Moon Co-Op - I opted out of a sunny day going rock climbing in order to go to an awesome workshop by Rikki of the Mobile Moon Co-op. The workshop was really charming, with refreshingly little of the weird over-promising that some folks get with medicinals. I liked it so much I made tea with fuckin’ oatstraw and wild rosehips I gathered back in the autumn! They’re taking submissions for the co-ops zine, I was thinking of maybe writing something about the Boulder Seed Collective. I love that her quote on their website is “Active involvement leads to understanding and kinship. The more we strive to learn about ourselves, our environments, and each other, the less we fear the world.”
Guide to Wild Soda Fermenting - Dude, I dunno, after I went to the Apothecary workshop I’m all like is this something I wanna try? I know a woman who made a ton of wild soda last year in the high desert, full of weird pine needles and juniper berries and shit. With an 8-to-12 hour fermentation window it seems like less of a commitment than kombucha! Will report back.
Okay this takes a long time to compile, and I feel like I didn’t even scrape the surface of all the other books and shit... Tomorrow maybe I’ll do a quick one-sentence dump of everything else. I do like this though.
