forty two
July 24, 2020
1
In a fear of state violence
Bodies crushed and trampled
under
Teenagers, adolescents to the front
They are in charge
Should have been our parents
Should have been us
We failed and now it is them
They inspire
They love
They protect
And they build
2
A state in the process of unbecoming
Unable to fulfill basic requirements
Unable to fulfill basic social compacts
Unravelling
Unbinding
In the face of capital grinding
Relentless
Seams cracks rifts
Opportunities violent with futures
Suffer horrors, needless and preventable
What is what we will make?
reading watching listening
reading
Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance – Adonia E. Lugo
M Archive – Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Otherworld Barbara Volume 1 – Moto Hagio
Confronting the Democratic Discourse of Librarianship: A Marxist Approach – Sam Popowich
Flight from Neveryon – Samuel Delany
Behind The Zines #9 – Billy McCall, editor
Lady Teeth #9 – Taryn
Personally Yours… Life on Zines – various
King-Cat #79 – John Porcellino
Pieces #6 – Nichole
Soundtrack From Twin Peaks – Clare Nina Norelli
Dig Deep #8 and #9 – Heather C.
watching
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Trek: Enterprise
Disenchanted
How’s Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki
Milford Graves Full Mantis
Little Shop of Horrors
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
listening
Sevvin, Saix, and #5 – Jean Grae
Active Listening: Night on Earth – Empath
Chorus – Flying Saucer Attack
Three Gentlemen from Chicago – Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
Steam – Archie Shepp
From Untruth – Elder Ones
Phase Eclipse – Amirtha Kidambi and Lea Bertucci
13 resonances
Princess Leia using her force powers to return to her ship from the vacuum of space
Lando Calrissian removing his mask and smiling
Ben Solo quieting his light saber after hearing the voice of his mother from across the yawning light years of space
Han Solo knowingly saying I know to his son
The ghost of Luke Skywalker succesfully raising his x-wing fighter from beneath the waves
Chewbacca wildly inconsolable, swinging his limbs and howling upon learning of Princess Leia’s death
Anthony Daniels getting a second of unmasked screen time as a pilot
Rey returning to Luke’s home on Tatooine – now her home
Growing and aging and acquiring new perspectives
Princess Leia
Music cues and refrains
Parallels and full circles
A closure of childhood
Experienced multiple times through multiple spaces over forty years
November 30, 2019
In the evening she reads brief entries about various video games out loud to him as he sits next to her on his bed.
reading watching listening
reading
On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature – Melanie Challenger
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Cosmic Cooties – Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder, Marco Failla, Natacha Bustos
Dark Horse – Kristina Marie Darling
Star Wars: Yoda’s Secret War – Jason Aaron, Salvador Larroca, Kelly Thompson, Emilio Laiso
Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – Elsa Charretier, Pierrick Colinet, Jody Houser, Devin Grayson, Beth Revis, Delilah Dawson
The Voyeurs – Gabrielle Bell
On a Sunbeam – Tillie Walden
Living Beautifully With Uncertainty and Change – Pema Chodron
Unterzakhn – Leela Corman
Magical Negro – Morgan Parker
Glass, Irony, & God – Anne Carson
Ker-Bloom 139 – Art Noose
Disposable Camera: Koala and Disposable Camera: 15.05.19 Sydney – Gadigal Land – Vanessa Berry
Skating with Shes and Hers Volume 1 – Amelia Bjesse-Puffin
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
watching
Castle in the Sky – Hayao Miyazaki
Camp Wannakiki Season 2
The Case of the Three Sided Dream – Adam Kahan
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Young Master – Jackie Chan
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind – Hayao Miyazaki
Ghostbusters (2016) – Paul Feig
Black Panther
Star Trek Enterprise
Drag Race UK
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
listening
Jei Beibi – Café Tacuba
The Dreaming and The Red Shoes – Kate Bush
I’m Still In Love With You – Al Green
American Queers – Superknova
For You and I – Loraine James
Live in Oakland – Dax Pierson
The Lion’s Throne – Terry Riley and Amelia Cuni
CHORDS – Ellen Arkbro
Time? Astonishing! – Kool Keith and L’Orange
Where Future Unfolds – Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble
and departt from mono games – LOFT
forty one
reading watching listening
reading
The Complete David Bowie – Nicholas Pegg
A Thousand Coloured Castles – Gareth Brookes
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth – Warsan Shire
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy – Jenny Odell
Revenge of the She-Punks – Vivien Goldman
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene – Donna J. Haraway
Last Night at the Casino #14 and #15 – Billy Roberts
Muchacha #12: Decolonize Travel – Daisy Salinas, editor
Ker-bloom! #131 and #132 – Artnoose
Dork Lifestyle #2 and #4, Number One: a zine of firsts, Black Cloud – Missy Kulik
I’m learning to dance through clouds, I forgot to love myself, A Book of Rainbows – Shei
Tell Your Own Story – Dayna Moth
The Water Spirit – Alexander Utkin
Spider-Gwen Volume 1 – Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez, Chris Visions.
Ms. Marvel: Generation Why – G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, Jacob Wyatt.
Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik
What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life – Dr. Sharon Saline
Bloom Spells – Rebecca Artemisa
Behind the Zines #8 – Billy McCall, editor
The Cranklet’s Chronicle #2 – Ellen Lindner
Fern Zine and Biblioburbia – Vanessa Berry
Possession Obsession – Olivia M.
watching
What We Do in the Shadows (series)
Dr. Who
UNHhhh
Looney Tunes
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
Lunch On
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Young Frankenstein
Liga MX Femenil
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Sick Day. Thomas Comerford. Ovef Ow. Jefferson Memorial Park. August 2, 2019.
Hugo Colin. Little Egypt. Axons. Superknova. Jefferson Memorial Park. August 3, 2019.
Natalie Duke. Donna Herula. Jessica Risker. Jovan Landry. Jefferson Memorial Park. August 4, 2019.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
listening
Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances – Drug Apts
Life Metal – Sunn O)))
Ecstatic Computation – Caterina Barbieri
Anyone Who Had A Heart – Dionne Warwick
Cuz I Love You – Lizzo
Legacy! Legacy! – Jamila Woods
Synergy – Jovan Landry
Metallic Butterfly – Princess Nokia
American Queers – SuperKnova
Crash the Party – Ovef Ow
Best Off – Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons
fantasii – Mhysa
7 directions – Nkisi
No. 2, Ame Debout, Paix, and Le Rat Débile Et L’Homme Des Champs – Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes
reading watching listening
reading
The Years – Annie Ernaux
Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois – Amy Novesky and Isabelle Arsenault
Undocumented: A Worker’s Fight – Duncan Tonatiuh
Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and its Legacy – Simon Reynolds
Original Fire – Louise Erdrich
Whereas – Layli Long Soldier
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
One Hundred Demons – Lynda Barry
Spinning – Tillie Walden
Ms. Marvel: No Normal – G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona
Beautiful Darkness – Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future – Lauren Redniss
Pretty Deadly: Volume Two, The Bear – Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios
House of Women – Sophie Goldstein
There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé – Morgan Parker
watching
Shazam
Liga MX Femenil
RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12
Ways of Seeing – John Berger
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
Dr. Who
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
What We Do in the Shadows (series)
Documentary Now
UNHhhh
listening
Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants – Stevie Wonder
Human Exploration and Cosmo Cleaners – Uranium Club
The Radio One Sessions and The Menace – Elastica
You Are Repeating Yourself Indeed – Ewa Justka
Significant Changes – Jayda G
Ancestor Boy – Lafawndah
Itekoma Hits and Okoshiyasu!! Otoboke Beaver – Otoboke Beaver
Anima Mysterium – Yugen Blakrok
Falha Comum – Rakta
Choosey & Exile – Black Beans
Pocket Full of Bees – Macie Stewart & Lia Kohl
new mexico
April 17, 2019
Sun warms feet
birds sing birds
wind spins a metal spiral