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

activism, Author, disability, Race, transgender

ableism, access, accessibility, Accessible Cities, disability, disability justice, Disability Pride, Fight Ableism, Homelessness, No More Ableism
November 14, 2021

Let’s Unlearn Capitalism Myths

I think this needs said: The framework that society shoved into us is capitalistic and it tries to teach us that the capitalistic view of reality is the ONLY view. This socialization is full of myths that aren’t actually true. There are many worlds within our biosphere of Earth, and we need to understand that Continue reading

activism, Author, Books, disability, Feminism, History, nature, Philosophy, Physics, Race, Science, Writing

anti-capitalism, anti-imperalism, anti-racism, capitalism, colonialism, corporations, doughnut economics, feminism, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, intersectionality, objectivity vs subjectivity, pluriverse, Race, racial capitalism, regenerative economy, Relationality
August 22, 2021

Deconstructing worldviews

“The notion of a “one-world-world” (OWW) is predicated on the West’s ability to arrogate to itself the right to be “the world” and to relegate all other worlds to its rules, to a state of subordination, or to nonexistence. It is thus an imperialist, colonial notion.” (chapter 1 of Pluriverse Politics by Arturo Escobar) So Continue reading

activism, nature, Philosophy, Physics, Writing

anti-capitalism, anti-capitalist, anti-imperalism, Arturo Escobar, climate justice, decolonize, imagination, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, justice, organizing, philosophy, science, settler-colonialism, ways of thinking
August 15, 2021

Nucleation Review

Nucleation by Kimberly Unger Overall Thoughts: For a science fiction tale, this book not only impressed me with its use of physics, specifically entanglement of particles, but blew me away with its scope of imagination. The characters leapt off the page with such personality, and the book kept twisting and turning with surprises every step Continue reading

Aliens, Blogging, Books, Science, Writing

aliens, book reviews, mystery, nanotechnology, physics, science, science fiction, writing
August 6, 2021

There Is No Moderates

Y’all, I think most won’t like what I got to say, but it needs said: There is no such thing as a middle ground. There is no moderate in America. You are either: 1. for genocide OR 2. Not for genocide. Republican party has thrown their lot in with number 1 to the point they Continue reading

activism, Author, disability, Feminism, History, Race, Science, transgender

abolish ICE, abolish police, Abolition, accessibility, climate change, climate disaster, climate justice, disability justice, genocide, immigrants, Indigenous rights, justice, LGBTQIA, Race, resources
April 24, 2021

We Are the Fire

We Are the Fire By Aidan Zingler Words pull push, agitate, infuriateI’m the fury of the world not seen.I beg, I cajole, I reason, I askI’m the pain of the dead not seen.Time is running out, time is running Black Lives burn bright and extinguish, Stars howl their sorrow at their lossDisabled flames smolder and Continue reading

Author, disability, Feminism, Poetry, Race, transgender, Writing

Abolition, anti-racism, creation, Disabled Lives Matter, feminism, justice, Movements, oppression, poetry, Race, social justice
March 9, 2021

COVID MEMORIAL SPEECH 2021

Covid Memorial Speech by Aidan Zingler I am a nonbinary neurodivergent disabled person. I am homebound and live alone with my cat. Many disabled folks I know are either in similar situations, live in a home, or forced to live with people that harm them. Many of us struggle in poverty due to restrictions on Continue reading

Writing
January 6, 2021

My First Teacher: Iowa’s Land (Short Essay)

Reminded of my first teacher: Iowa’s Land. My first political foray: fighting to save wetland. Where I went to recover: the forest. The land teaches of justice, of hope, of ways of knowing beyond the confined narrow focus of our modern world. I miss nature: small patches of forest, paths along the lakes, the wetlands, Continue reading

Author, disability, nature

ableism, accountability, America, genocide, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, justice, nature, pandemic, police brutality, racism, reciprocity, relationship, responsibility, social justice
January 2, 2021

First Essay of 2021: Nothing about People is a Binary

Human beings are complex. We can both criticize each other and yet still love each other; the criticism does not mean our love is false, and yet society teaches us thus. This binary thinking is killing us. Our society teaches us that everything is a binary: either we are Black or White, Man or Woman, Continue reading

Author, Blogging, disability, Feminism, Philosophy, Race, transgender, Writing

4 R's, accountability, binary thinking, dismantling bias, dismantling binary thinking, healing, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, reciprocity, relationship, Respect, responsibility
October 12, 2020

Indigeous Peoples’ Day: We Need to Show Up Year Round

Indigenous People’s Day. The wind blows fiercely as the leaves tumble down the sidewalk. At the capitol, Indigeous people speak their truths, broadcast it in a livestream. Around them and us, Western Society throttles on slowly, its gears mucked up with Mother Nature, the pandemic slowly everything down. Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff (Unangan Tunuu) and Libby Continue reading

disability, Race, Writing

anti-capitalism, anti-racism, being in relation, disability, disability justice, dismantle imperialism, dismantling whiteness, indigenous, Indigenous Peoples' Day, Indigenous rights, relationship, white privilege