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The Veins That Bind Us: Part 2
Episodes 3 & 4 of the Las Venas documentary film series from Veracruz, Mexico.
Decolonization
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Ceremony for the Void
Listen to Heaven and Earth and behave like ephemeral residents. Be in communion with the in-between, with the Void, and all beings that share this sacred space.
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Apologetic Backlash
While the pope stood in front of cameras apologizing for Canada’s residential school system, religious media outlets continued a campaign of denialism.
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A Sigil’s Landscape
For its first destination the Nomadic Pigment Lab travels to La Barbacoa, Dominican Republic to collaborate with artist and botanical enthusiast Eliazar Ortiz, working with natural pigments to create a unique language of sigils.
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Non-Monogamy Letter #4
Kim TallBear writes an update on her post-Covid palate for food, drink, sex, and conversation, and opens her tattered copy of Simon(e)’s book for some inspired remote discourse.
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Chromatic Oracles
Residents of the San Antón neighborhood in Carolina, Puerto Rico create oracles with botanical inks on behalf of loved ones who introduced them to the world of plants.
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Non-Monogamy Letter #2
In her response to Simon(e) van Saarloos, Kim TallBear discusses finding her polyamorous community, cross-border lovers, and navigating multiple relationships in a lockdown.
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Non-Monogamy Letter #1
In this introductory letter from Simon(e) van Saarloos to Kim TallBear, Simon(e) explores where their perspectives on monogamy intersect, and where they might diverge.
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“Education by the Stone” and the Silent Primer of Blood
Plants and resilient Indigenous people on the walls spoke to me. I listened to them. I still try to silence myself to learn more from them. This was my first primer on how to rise as an Indigenous person and ‘bleed the stone’, transforming bodies (human and non-human) towards life and liberation.
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Rising From the Barracoon
Beninese writer and photographer Laeila Adjovi visits the ruined slave barracks of old Cuban sugar plantations for her Fay Chiang Fellowship research, where she discovers vestiges of ancient African rites.
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Dissolve Disappearance
A figure—a slippery sight like an anaconda—asks permission to enter your pores and touch your marrow, enter the life of your blood that is also the sap of the world. It is a disappearance to be in the veins of the world.
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The Secret War in Laos: Tragedy at Tham Piew
During the early years of the U.S. Secret War in Laos, hundreds of villagers hid from the cluster bombs in a deep cave, where they carved out a community over four years until they were detected by a passing U.S. reconnaissance aircraft one afternoon in November 1968.
