An Archive of Reckless Touch

“Archives cannot actually let us touch the past; they can only leave us with inchoate fragments with which we build new stories.”

NO GUILT, NO!

Luke added this illustrated addendum to the GOES Books site after hearing from some people that they felt guilty claiming a comic without also paying it forward. It’s so good. This project is so good.

Heroics (Addendum)

I’m becoming increasingly wary of any label that obscures our reliance on one another and denies us our wholeness as human beings.

Heroics

“You put [a hero] in a bag and he looks like a rabbit, like a potato.”

What Goes Around

Okay, listen: I’ve been pretty consumed lately with barking up my own mental redwood tree about patronage and interdependent communities and what it means to try and support artists during late-stage capitalism, but this morning I got an email from my friend Luke Kruger-Howard that felt like turning around and realizing that this isn’t just … Continue reading What Goes Around

Ramble #27.2

A Ramble about what to do when there is nothing to be done.

Solidarity Economy

Of course Mara has already been talking about these questions for years. Of course she posted a link to this report just a couple weeks ago. Of course there’s a huge body of ongoing work unfolding around these questions across every industry at this weird crisis point in history. Of course!

I Don’t Know What I Know Till I Know How I Know It

Area Woman surprised, once again, that people who pay to support her creative career are genuinely invested in its output.

The Half-Remembered Bakery

Finding slices of myself in the flaky pastry of the Old Web.

What Do You Call It?

“I thought by the time I was doing this I’d be with someone.” I cried when I told her—another one of the myriad griefs threading through this kintsugi year: that not being in a romantic partnership somehow rendered me incapable of facing my father’s decline. But when I was writing the FAQ about my move, … Continue reading What Do You Call It?