Author: heather
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$895 Billion for USA “freedom” in 2025
The theme of my most recent postcard design is the 2025 US Department of Defense budget that comes in at $895,000,000,000, which is the price of your FREEDOM to consume 221 flavors of Oreos, spend more than a third of your stagnant wages on housing costs, or join the ranks of the 500,000 Americans who…
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Hard Bones links
Read Hard Bones for Free My main goal and the biggest hope I have for this book is that workingclass people read it and feel inspired to take action in the material world while the fascist storm is whipping up all around us. I want people to find their deepest reserves of courage and spite,…
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IDK Project Post
I Didn’t Know – Visual Summary I Didn’t Know is a multimedia project designed to educate the general public about the connection between war, militarism, and the environmental polycrisis – climate change especially. Before I went down a rabbithole asking questions about the Department of Defense’s climate plan, I didn’t know just how much petroleum…
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Individuals as Population
This blog post is mostly an exercise to begin organizing my thoughts around population science and the economization of life. I start off discussing BMI to paint a picture of just how much complexity is flattened and compressed into the term, followed by a brief discussion of how GDP feels very much the same to…
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Carbon Footprints
Are Americans accountable to anyone? I asked myself this question as I completed the Carbon Footprint calculator activity that was assigned to my graduate-level Sustainability course without critique or really any indication that the notion of an individual carbon footprint might be contested at all. My number came in at half of what the average…
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“From the tunnels of Gaza, what’s more underground than this?”
Around this time last year, MC Abdul first found his way into my YouTube feed with his Shouting at the Wall music video. You might recognize him from Macklemore’s Hinds Hall 2, but MC Abdul was still new to me then. This young Palestinian kid rapping these painfully vulnerable yet defiant lyrics while walking past…
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Madelyn Mae
Madelyn’s fingers moved across the keys, slowly at first and then tripping over each other as the dream and her memory expanded out rhizomatically. By the time it was dark she had ten documents open like sheet music for an orchestra that she moved across and through. She didn’t dare look at anything she had…
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Hard Bones: Part 4
Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Listen to the final chapter of Hard Bones: Madelyn Mae.
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Hard Bones: Part 3
Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14a Chapter 14b Chapter 15 Part 4 coming soon… Jump to Part 4!