Reshaping Reality

July 6, 2021

My Open Letter to City Designers

I originally wrote this email for the Des Moines City Council. For the past year, I’ve adjusted the verbiage to reflect what I’ve heard in their City Council Meetings with the Public. I also adjust the bullet points and actions I (and others) wish to see them take. Otherwise, most of the letters are verbatim Continue reading

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ableism, access, accessibility, Accessible Cities, disability, disability justice, Disability Pride, Fight Ableism, Homelessness, No More Ableism
February 5, 2025

What We’re Up Against and Where To Go From Here (updated 2/28/2025)

This video discusses the playbook these techbros are using. The agenda discussed is exactly what we are seeing playing out in real time right now in the USA. They want corporate-owned “network states” to hoard more wealth and make it impossible for others to gain their wealth; as well as having a trapped workforce to Continue reading

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activism, anarchism, antifascism, community care, disability justice, fighting fascism, fighting the network state agenda, justice, mutual aid, network state, organizing, politics, protest, protest tips, us coup, US Politics
January 21, 2025

Archiving Our Works Offline

Since we are entering a fascist era where I live, archiving literature of all types becomes more pertinent. Especially with the current rise in book-banning and censorship (much of that focusing on marginalized groups like LGBTQIA people and Black and Indigenous people). So how do we archive literature and keep knowledge safe from censorship or Continue reading

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anti-capitalist, anti-racism, antifascism, archives, archiving documents, archiving literature, archiving media, Books, community, community building, literature, reading, storing data, surviving fascism, technology
November 9, 2024

How To Move Forward In Moments of Crisis

I do not feel well. But I can share this since some folks are confused and despairing about what can be done. NOTE: Choose which ones you wish to focus on. Do Not Think You Must Do All Of This as that will burn you out. This post is comprehensive, but it’s not meant as Continue reading

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accessibility, action, community care, disabilities, disability, inclusion, justice, mask bloc, mental health, mutual aid, organizing
December 18, 2023

Building Communities of Care and Liberation

We need to build better communities of care and support, desperately. With how our society keeps refusing to acknowledge the pandemic (Covid levels are so high in my state right now that it’s dangerous to go out), it makes existing with other people even harder, and often disabled, marginalized folks like me get left behind. Continue reading

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anarchism, collective care, communal care, Communalism, communities of care, community, justice, liberation, Race, radical and revolutionary movements, social justice, solidarity
August 12, 2023

The traumatic Reality

People are suffering from several massively terrifying things all at once: Why do you think so many went along with Nazism in the 30s? Why do you think people turned a blind eye to the horrors done to the Black community again and again? Why do you think people refused to acknowledge AIDS? Acknowledging reality Continue reading

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collective grief, collective solidarity, covid, ego death, empathy, gaslighting, individualism, lack of ego death, mutual aid, pandemic, pandemic mitigations, solidarity, trauma, truth-telling
January 11, 2023

What we Know about XBB 1.5 and Long Covid

I’ve heard folks talking about XBB 1.5 “Kraken” variant, especially with some confusion as to what its symptoms are since they differ a bit from the more common symptoms seen with Delta and earlier variants. (As a side note, the name “Kraken” was actually coined by T. Gregory, a epidemologist/immunologist that’s on Twitter. He’s been Continue reading

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Airborne Virus, COVID VARIANTS, COVID19, pandemic, pandemic mitigations, PeoplesCDC, SARS-CoV-2, Viral Mutations, XBB 1.5
September 6, 2022

Ways of Learning

Curiosity, Creativity, Compassion, and Cooperation are the 4 C’s of human nature. A fifth C is the darker side of our nature: Control. In past (and non-western or Indigenous) societies, they educated their youth through self-directed learning that required a high level of respect, cooperation, creativity, and mutual exploration. Adults guided the children rather than Continue reading

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capitalism, critical pedagogy, dismantling whiteness, education, equality, equity, justice, liberation, Paulo Freire, theory of social control, unlearning capitalism, unlearning colonialism, unlearning imperalism, unschooling, white supremacy
June 26, 2022

Building Coalition for Change is Hard but Crucial

This article will discuss US politics. Content Warning for discussion of transphobia, racism, genocidal ideology, and sexism. Concerning the Series of Terrible Supreme Court Decisions All four of these decisions cause tremendous harm to our society, and they all build off each other. The ‘fund private religious schools’ is a way for conservatives to eliminate Continue reading

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cishet patriarchy, Gun control laws, healthcare, Judiciary, labor unions, mutual aid, protest, Race, religion, Rogue Court, Separation of church and state, solidarity, Supreme Court, US Politics, white supremacy
February 8, 2022

My Open Letter to City Designers

Originally posted on Reshaping Reality: I originally wrote this email for the Des Moines City Council. For the past month, I’ve adjusted the verbiage to reflect what I’ve heard in their City Council Meetings with the Public. I also adjust the bullet points and actions I wish to see them take. Otherwise, most of the… Continue reading

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December 27, 2021

Omicron and Pandemic Mitigations

Ok. Y’all, Listen Up. Time to do a breakdown of what we know of the new variant – Omicron. First off, let’s look at this Pretty-But-Terrifying-Image of the genetic sequencing of all the known variants of COVID19. Why is it alarming? Look at that red line that shoots out on the right hand side. That’s Continue reading

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