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Hi all,
I’m currently working on a fractals chapter for The Book of Shaders and scheming up some shader workshops and q&as with Patricio. If you’re shader curious, you can sign up for the mailing list on the bottom of the Book of Shaders page and you’ll be the first to know about new chapters & workshops.
Keeping it simple today with a few people and things who deserve your attention more than E10n Mu$k’s text messages:
Sojourners for Justice Press is a micropress for experimental print based media, founded by Mariame Kaba and co-directed by Neta Bomani. Neta’s 100 days of zines project was an absolute light in early 2021. You can support the press here and look out for their first publication, Ashon Crawley’s Meditation on Abolition. I was introduced to Ashon Crawley’s The Lonely Letters in a Night School class last spring, and was just astonished by it. This press puts together so many of my interests / people I love paying attention to. So excited for it.
My friend Lynn Cherny writes a monthly newsletter, Things I Think Are Awesome, focused on creative AI but with a wide lens; she also includes book, games, TV recommendations and a poem. It’s jam-packed and one of the newsletters I reliably open.
I’ve been leaning in to the Between the Covers podcast, and it really takes some leaning in and slowing down — the eps are sometimes 2+ hours long! What hooked me was this Lidia Yuknavitch interview focusing on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. And then the interview with Elaine Castillo about her new book How to Read Now was so deep and (sorry for this, it’s accurate) intellectually effervescent. Castillo talks for 5 minutes about the colonialism in translations of The Odyssey and puts a whole language to what I wanted to say to my freshman English teacher! Where is my time machine?!? I’ve just started the Dionne Brand episode and when she talks for 3 minutes here about poetry as a disorderliness against capital’s control on time and language, I was yelling YES! YES! on the way home from school dropoff.
I’m considering getting outside Crocs because I love my indoor Crocs so much. It’s just a matter of time.
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It’s hard out there folks, eggs are getting so expensive, wishing you some silly moments,
Jen
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