book review: captive genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex

book review: the compassion book

le'mn "movement" music 2022

on jan 2022, lawrence was on personal reflection retreat and remembered the joy he used to get from making playlists with friends. this was a practice he learned about from ross chanowski who used to do seasonal (i think) playlists with his friends. when lawrence and ross were working on jungle together, they would make playlists and it was a :fire emoji: practice. he thought it’d be sweet to expand the practice to some current close friends and that’s how we got there. the monthly playlist practice has brought the four of us into deeper friendship, and it’s been meaningful to weave it into our feminist men’s group by sharing a song each time we meet.

grief when friends have babies

the other day i was in a convo where someone was expressing some guilt about feeling grief in relationship to a friend who was having a baby. it reminded me that this is something i’ve thought about in the past and prompted me to write about it so here we are.

unleashing alternative futures: what if trees were beings?

today, a 200 year-old tree was felled. it was time and it wasn’t time. what is/was time to a being that lived 200 years? what is a year even?