Project 1: Talking Back
#freedoms2017 Hi guys. Remember I had two ideas? 1) re writing the genesis, which I will do. Not sure in what form it will take but also, I dont have the time to think, play it out and re-writing the whole world is serious so I want to devote more time to it than my life currently allows. so I will not be doing this right away. 2) menstrual positivity. I feel like most girls are taught to celebrate their periods because it means they are now officially "women." In sex ed., being a woman means you are biologically capable of poppin' babies. that the menstruation cycles exactly mimics the rhythm of our moon's monthly cycle in the sky is barely noted culturally, at least not that I am aware of. 28 days, both. That people used to feel the stages of the moon intuitively in their bodies is no longer remembered or known. It used to be essential information for the livelihood of our fisher[wo]men, sailors, mermaids, and divers. Menstruating signals the equivalent of New Moon in our bodies. Like In the Beginning, complete darkness. Renewal. Our bodies hormones fluctuate in such a way that during menstruation, we literally may heal ourselves of bacterial and yeast infections (I can personally testify) (by the way, i read somewhere on the internet that semen causes yeast infections and that is honestly just as well.) In a sense I'm not talking back to anything, more like I'm trying to fill in the void of knowledge and physical understanding of what a woman's menstruation period really is, a once-a-month magical purging of the old. I think I'm going to extend this into a research project. Ways to take care of our vaginal healths have also been lost to colonialism aka the process in which aggressively imposed industrialization and Christianity of the west unto everyone else violently erased indigenous knowledge of everything ever. (I'm aware that not all of our cultures' pasts are sparkly, holy-glory. Nasty stuff like genital mutilation was/is real. But that's not to say there is no wisdom to be had at all in the ways of our ancestors. Progress is a myth. We did not start off from The Worst and continued to get better and better. Humanity's been through several golden ages, and things were beautiful and ok at times even without all the technology that so greatly benefits our lives currently. Technology may enable us to bring ourselves back to the beginning, full circle. And one of the ways it will do so is by aiding me in my research lol.) I want to tap into the ways in which our bodies have been celebrated and share this celebration with others. Here is one image from this conceived project. I think i'll just make copies and start putting them in bathrooms. wouldn't you feel happy sitting on a toilet changing your diva cup/[tampon/pad/sometimes i just let myself bleed on my underwear] while reading this?
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This is the company Trump hired to mine peoples info/data/profiles to win
https://cambridgeanalytica.org/ view their 2 minute intro video on the main page https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win #freedoms2017 will ask in class but what did yall gain from this introduction? (not rhetorical, this is a sincere question. It was really hard for me to absorb her writing for some reason which may not be entirely due to her writing or even content, but just from the fact that i feel BURNED OUT help) I didn't gain much.. I liked it as a follow up to the 'technium' reading because she acknowledges/touches upon the nuances of the material/social reality in which the internet/technology is experienced, which is to say unequally and with similar forces of power oriented towards profit at play.
also i'm glad there are good people out there keeping up with this stuff and fighting on this front cuz I'm a bit confused tbh. if yall can provide a more succinct summary of her finer points, I'd much appreciate the reiteration. #freedoms2017 |
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