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Jan 10, 2022

On being in consensual conflict

Taking the plunge Take a deep breath. Look down the sodden, slowly fragmenting log that you have been clinging to for your whole life in a dark ocean of stormy waters. A floating log that has perhaps kept you afloat and been your only friend. On the edge of your vision…

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On being in consensual conflict
On being in consensual conflict

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Dec 17, 2020

Life is a party, and parties weren’t meant to last

A year ago a small creature that was nesting inside me, left — with nothing tangible but some tiny pawprints on a piece of hospital card. And last night, so did another. trans-incubation I couldn’t talk about it before because — hell I’m not a woman, not even clearly a human…

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Life is a party, and parties weren’t meant to last
Life is a party, and parties weren’t meant to last

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Jun 13, 2020

Defund the Police, and, and, and..

Open letter to leaders of US cities and states. What we want is Transformative Justice on the streets Dear Mayor / Leader / Governor […] The recent murder of George Floyd by a member of the Minnesota Police Department, as well as the ongoing violence against black communities by the MPD, call for a structural rethinking of the role…

Police Abolition

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Defund the Police, and, and, and..
Defund the Police, and, and, and..
Police Abolition

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Jun 8, 2020

But wouldn’t abolishing the police make things worse?

Hurried notes from an abolitionist to the understandably skeptic ❤ If you know of community projects that are providing alternatives to the police, either in terms of harm prevention or alternative harm response, please fill this in so that we can collect a national map of these incredible projects, and…

Police Abolition

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But wouldn’t abolishing the police make things worse?
But wouldn’t abolishing the police make things worse?
Police Abolition

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Oct 11, 2019

Chesa Boudin

Liquid democracy — I can’t vote. If you are on the fence about the DA vote, please cast your vote on my behalf. — The ask Please vote for Chesa Boudin. This will bring San Francisco into the forefront of prison reform in the US, in a moment where social justice seems to be going backwards at an alarming rate (see below for my reasons). Please convince one other human you know to vote for Chesa…

Criminal Justice Reform

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Chesa Boudin
Chesa Boudin
Criminal Justice Reform

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Oct 4, 2019

Let’s stop waiting for the city to solve homelessness

“Homelessness in San Fransisco, it’s so terrible, but what can we do? It’s just so hard, such a complex issue”. Honestly, I just don’t think it’s all that hard. It’s just that we are not really trying. 1 in 12 residential buildings in San Francisco is vacant, and kept that way by a range of factors. When the city tries to create housing shelters and resources, it’s…

Homeless

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Let’s stop waiting for the city to solve homelessness
Let’s stop waiting for the city to solve homelessness
Homeless

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Oct 3, 2019

This SF housing crisis is a self made one..

According to 2013–2017 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, there are approximately 390,376 housing units in San Francisco. A study from SPUR in 2012 reported that around 30,000 residential units in SF are vacant. That means that around 1 in 12 residential units are vacant. Vacant residential units. …

Housing

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Housing

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Jun 2, 2019

Second Life House

: Bypassing the default world for returning citizens and the formerly incarcerated “It’s funny to appreciate a city from a jail bus, because it’s that very city that’s sending you away. And I mean all of it is sending you away — from the disciplinarians that fancy themselves educators, to…

Criminal Justice Reform

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Second Life House
Second Life House
Criminal Justice Reform

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Mar 27, 2019

From ‘nowhere’ to ‘now here’: strategies for getting to a Post Capitalist world

.. it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. — We have all read Jameson’s quote by now— it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism [1]. That said the majority of citizens in the US are uncomfortable with the country’s economic foundation. We all know our system…

Politics

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From ‘nowhere’ to ‘now here’: strategies for getting to a Post Capitalist world
From ‘nowhere’ to ‘now here’: strategies for getting to a Post Capitalist world
Politics

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Mar 7, 2019

Learnings & wonders from Embassy Berlin

Communal living in a two bed apartment — Our space in Berlin was stunning. It’s a large space facing on the the U-bahn so that you can sit and watch the oldest train line in Berlin whizzle humans about the city. You can hear church bells ring, which is beautiful and also a regular reminder of things that…

Coliving

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Communal living in a two bed apartment?
Communal living in a two bed apartment?
Coliving

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