if viewing on your phone, please turn your screen to display text correctly ﹏ ______________________________________________________________________ ::::::::: branching assemblages ‹‹*›› garden music player :::::::::: |+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+| | | | @@@@ .------------------------------------------------. _(_)_ | | @@()@@ | always playing: midday show with chryl wtrs |(_)@(_) | | @@@@ wWWWw | rdio station: 92.7 FM SF // 90.3 FM seattle | (_)\. | | / (___) | listen online: kexp.org |. \| | | \ | Y |________________________________________________| \ |/ | | \\|// \|// \ \|/ | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *####################** ***#####################*+* ___ +*% %++ |*##\ +*% what am i listening %*+ |.###| +*% to rn? %*+ |i##/ **% %*+ |] **% el fen %*+ [] **% by ait meslayene %*+ \ **% %*+ _| **%@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@%*+ / **##########***##########*+ _____ \ **#######: . :#######*+ / / \ **#####+ MENU *#####*+ \____/ \ **####* << ### >> ####**+ /\ / ***###* ##### *###**+ ! \-_-_____ \ #***###- >= =###**= ## \_/ #****###= =###+-.=+ / +******###*=-:-=*#****-+-.+ / @@%####################-%*+ n--/ [ ] / ?--_ _________ |_| / \ --##[=+aa=. \ |___- _-- \ / \####/ \_______/ ### ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ___________________________________________________________________________ |[+]::::::: everyday field notes - memories.txt ::::::::::::::[7.15.26]| 7.15.26 #5DC7B7 sunday was the finale of love island USA. brinity 4ever ! [or as long as they would like] as you know, it is always that deep. I was never a reality tv person until I joined "bimbos & the spectacle" a book/tv group focused on reading critical media theory & analyzing reality tv across US history through the readings. We haven't met in a few weeks, so I have been compiling readings and analysis to present for my friends. meeting 1: history of reality tv + theory introduction candid Camera October 1960 Episode 1 Season 1 [24 minute watch] candid Camera Feminist Analysis [4 minute read] a Feminist Analysis of the Love Island Reality TV Show [10 minute read] Emily Nussbaum, 2024. Cue the Sun. [464 pages available via ebook] - I summarized the history covered in the book & shared it via slide presentation. meeting 2: politics of being represented alicia denby, 2021. Toxicity and Femininity in Love Island: How Reality Dating Shows Perpetuate Sexist Attitudes Towards Women bell hooks, 1992. Eating the Other [14 minute read] sandi rankaduwa,2017. “Bachelorette’ Uses Racism as Entertainment– Which Means Nobody Wins,” Rolling Stone. additional readings that would be mentioned: - radway, the readers and their romances - grant et. al., Selling Breonna 7.02.26 #BAB700 i am interested in mapmaking and the knowledge that maps hold and normalize. how can we countermap contentious realities to reveal knowledges that have been obscured under the capitalist & settler colonial heteropatriarchy. you might already know, my research lab focuses on partnering with unhoused youth in research with the goal of preventing & ending youth homelessness. outside of work, an experimental gis project i am pursuing is the idea of creating a map about what 'home' means to those that are unhoused. i am interested in the short and long term migratory paths of those that live in tents within my neighborhood, and the impact increased street sweeps have on their lives. could i map their stories using arc/qGIS or an equivalent mapping software and leverage that knowledge to improve our understanding of the lives of unhoused neighbors. (counter)mapping lit review: |fujikane, c. (2021). MAPPING ABUNDANCE FOR A PLANETARY FUTURE. durham, nc: | duke. university press. | |hau'ofa, E. (2014).OUR SEA OF ISLANDS. honolulu, hi: university of hawai'i | press. the contemporary pacific, spring 1994, vol. 6, no. 1 | (spring 1994). pp. 148-161.https://www.jstor.org/stable/23701593 | |harley, jb. (1992). DECONSTRUCTING THE MAP. evanston, il: program of | african studies, northwestern university no. 3, pp. 10-13. | |bellone, t. (2020). mapping as tacit representations of the colonial gaze | in Specht, D (ed.), MAPPING CRISIS: participation, datafication and | humanitarianism in the age of digital mapping. london, england: | university of london press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv14rms6g.9 6.30.26 #60935D last night i picked up my ceramics from the studio at 9pm. i brought the ceramics and natasha with me to zia's apt at 10pm. we ubereats'd taco bell & watched love island as she packed for her month long vietnam/cambodia/thailand trip pre-phd. i've been striving for that undergrad feeling, when natasha and i shared a tiny bedroom and would negotiate who would take zoom class in the bedroom or living room. when my roommates and i spent every moment together and i never felt bored, or tired, or lonely. kate graduates with their msw on the east coast in august. rio is working on film sets in la, i went from seeing him everyday to us weaving complex webs of plans to see eachother ~4x a year. jen is moving to boston in two months, just a ~year ago we were sneaking away from the co-op to lovingly complain about our housemates. ari left for ny this month and i remember six years ago at our first meeting, wondering if she thought i was as cool as i knew her to be. sometimes i worry that growing roots is not what i should be doing. i'm still here, working for the univ. i went to. i'm filling my spare time this week with making ceramics, crafting an artist fellowship, and my decolonial cartography ARCGIS class. it's less about feeling like comparison is the thief of joy, and more about life is changing. the seasons meld together in california, but i can tell summer is ending and september is coming by the migratory patterns of friends. and i'll be here for when they return home. 6.29.26 #FF579F encyclopedia softer research: to me is thinking deeply about all porous moments of life. there is meaning which underpins all facets of our lives. it is about taking time to reflect on those moments and understand what is beneath the soil. to gently cradle the worms and know there is meaning to their lives too. in a world of "its not that deep", i want to convince my friends that it has always been that deep. branching assemblages: a term i coined in my gender studies honors thesis four years ago. about how history grows in every direction, there is no straight line of progress. my theory now transformed into an understanding that each of us grow in all directions. you are growing even as you sit here now. |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| ||||||||||||||||||||||~* favorite things right now*~||||||||||||||||||||| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | [title] | [format] |[attribution] | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | tinyurl. c o m/braingarden | sheet | @altmilks | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | digital-garden.katharinanejdl.c o m. | webpage | HBK Brnschwg | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | dutch blitz | game [cards]| werner mller | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | f*ggots & friends btwn revolutions | book [futures]| lry mitchell | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | love island s.8 | tv [reality]| itv studios | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | localhost.starstar.web s i t e | webpage | lcalhst:5000 | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | society of the spectacle | book [theory]| guy debord | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | the membranes | book [sci-fi]| ta-wei chi | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | tr*nny central,a gift from ariana | zine [history]| jaye hudson | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | onefifth. digital | webpage | hakeem adam | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________ |:::::: branching assemblages - flyer.txt :::::::::::::::::::::| |==========================================================================| . + . . . . _ . . , -----/;-._,-.____ ,-----.__ (( . 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( ( be paired in youth & elder configurations to ) ) ) ) create meaningful art on four themes: ( ( ( ( pasts, presents, futures, & cycles. ) ) .-"-,-"-. 2. open call: write to me about maps. i need your .-"-,-"-. ( ) lit recs. ( ) `. .' 3. gay river day, july 18th. txt.me. `. .' `._.' are you suffering unnecessarily where you could `._.' ( ( be enjoying yourself instead? may you choose joy? ) ) ) ) .-"-,-"-. .-"-,-"-. .-"-,-"-. ( ( ( (_.-._( ).-._.-._( ).-._.-._( ).-._..-.) ) `._.-._.`. .'_.-._.-._.`. .'_.-._.-._.`. .'_.-._.-._.,' `._.' `._.' `._.' "In this era of late liberal settler colonialism, cartography as a methodology is critical to rearticulating our radically contingent relationships with the living lands, seas, and skies. Capital fears abundance because it must manufacture the perception of scarcity to generate markets. By contrast, mapping abundance is an urgent insistence on life in the face of corporate-induced climate change." - Candance Fujikane, author of MAPPING ABUNDANCE FOR A PLANETARY FUTURE. (2021) ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ about @altmilks: community engaged researcher & artist, with interests in dreaming of a better world and holding systems accountable.