April 3, 2022

Doomscrolling ❌ Bloomscrolling ✅

Azzah Sultan, “Don’t forget what I’ve told you.” (2021-22), oil and hand-stitched fabric with found pearl beads on canvas, 48 x 48 inches.

READING IN MY TABS

• “To whom do you owe the power behind your voice, what strength you have become, yeasting up like sudden blood from under the bruised skin's blister?” The Audre Lorde questionnaire to yourself.
• “My goal isn’t slow productivity: it’s sustainable productivity. Among other things, sustainable productivity requires keeping a larger perspective about the role of work in our lives. It requires maintaining boundaries with your definitions (you are not your job) and your time (recharging is not a luxury).” Related: shatter the productivity myth.
• Designers wield a lot of power in their work. But where do they exert this power? And how can they question it? (contains some very helpful prompts from scholars and design practitioners with an intersectional framework (unlike I don’t know, Mr Obsolete Design Hero Don Norman) for you, as designers or researchers, or anyone interested to interrogate power dynamics in your work and daily lives). Related: a designerly inventory.
• “Never again let anyone tell you the foreign occupation and bombing of land is “too complicated” or “too political” to support. Never again let a company tell you that boycotts and divestments are too economically or logistically complicated to uphold.“ Hoda Katebi never misses. Make no mistake, solidarity with Ukraine, but also solidarity beyond “blonde, blue-eyed” refugees — which "violence is deemed worthy of attention and lament, about the countless diaries written in Somalia, Myanmar, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Palestine, Xinjiang" that have not been published to a wide international audience. Related: watching Ukraine through the Palestinian eyes and the Kyiv war diary of Yevgenia Belorusets.
• Love this article about cultures that incorporate whistling into their language (can you whistle? I am totally hopeless).
• I have been looking for ways to collaboratively close read, and happy to find an example on how to do this on Miro. This entire article on where I found it from is just a delightful — from doomscrolling to bloomscrolling.
• Why does Google still have that “I’m Feeling Lucky” button?
• How a book is made, and an excellent graphical demonstration on editing texts to make them more accessible.
• “my goal is to make the revolution irresistable, so listen close: in the infinite crip crazy future, I am not eliminated and neither are you. We stand sit lie limp freak out, infinite. There are kinds of crazy that we ain’t even thought of yet. We are the walking dead, the dead femmes walking.” (Related: you are not entitled to our deaths)

RESOURCES AND TOOLKITS

• State of the Internet’s Languages report maps some of the ways in which languages are represented online, raises awareness about the need to make the internet more multilingual, and advances an agenda for action. Related: Papa Reo is a multilingual language platform grounded in indigenous knowledge and ways of thinking and powered by cutting edge data science.
• Abolitionist Toolbox is a set of resources for building a punishment free world. The tools can be used in our relationships, our homes, our schools, our organisations, and our communities, and can be used to consider how we can deepen discussions about justice, harm, and healing, and diving into active ways towards an abolitionist future that includes everyone. (Love the graphic notes!)
• Institute for New Economic Thinking offers a five-part lecture series, in which renowned scholar guides us through the field of feminist economics and shows how our understanding of the economy, theory and policy changes with the adoption of a gender perspective.
• Micropedia is a resource to learn about micro aggressions and their impacts.
• Accessible Social is a free resource hub for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, and everyday social media users to make your social media content accessible.

STATUS BOARD

• Watching: The African philosophy of Ubuntu — a concept in which your sense of self is shaped by your relationships with other people. The perfect definition of collective care, communal life, and interdependency.