TOTW: Anarchy Fangirls

A fangirl is someone - typically but not exclusively female - who gets hyped out of their mind about a particular person, group, activity, or interest. We're talking full-on, unfiltered passion: shouting from the rooftops about their favorite band, binge-watching a TV series until sunrise, or obsessively collecting everything tied to a niche hobby.

TOTW - Columbus? Nah, columbYOU!

Of His-story's biggest bastards, Columbus is surely up there with the worst.

Ol' Christopher was intimately documented through the opening chapters of Zinn's "A People's History" and has been taking the heat across schools, parks, local legislatures, forums, and social media ever since.

Acting as an agent of the Catholic Crowns to expand the reach of their Holy Empire, it is safe to say Columbus was not on the level with anarchists and was, in fact, an actual factual colonizer.

TOTW: abstractions and embodiment

Topic of the Week - This won't be fully fleshed out (ha, did you see what i did there?) but I've been thinking a bit about the way that anarchists (at least as victims of western civilization) can be very abstracted from our bodies, how that is a part of computer culture, the impact of smelling people, of hearing them move and breathe, of the ways that being in someone's presence is more than the sum of its parts, of how ideas float away from our physical beings, of generalizations and how they are fun to play with but also distract from our subjective, individual experiences.

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