"I didn’t realise until now that home could be a whole landscape; I thought it had to be a building.”
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Author of Shotgun Seamstress: The Complete Zine Collection, a compilation of punk rock fanzines created between 2006 and 2015 covering the experiences of Black punk rockers, artists, LGBTQ, feminists and activists.
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Osa Atoe quoted Hermit by Jade Angeles Fitton
I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation …
“It was towards the end of our time at the house that I recognised that my experience of loneliness is relieved when I am alone; there is symmetry in it. I thought countless times in the intervening years that it must be nice to finally stop trying to belong, to walk away from it all, from them all. I thought that, rather than missing out, there must be something to gain from leaving so much behind. When someone takes things from us that we don’t really need to survive, if we look at it another way, they are relieving us of a burden.”
— Hermit by Jade Angeles Fitton (Page 38)
Osa Atoe started reading Hermit by Jade Angeles Fitton
I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation …
Osa Atoe finished reading We Will Rest! by Tricia Hersey
This is an art book, filled with poetry, drawings, instructional exercises and personal testimony. You can read it in one sitting, but, like her other book, it works best as a guide that you revisit over a long period of time. Personally, I find her first book Rest as Resistance to be more helpful in understanding the foundations of this movement, the call to rest. I think this book makes an artful follow-up to the first book, showing how important creativity, imagination and playfulness are to understanding and embodying her theories.
Osa Atoe started reading We Will Rest! by Tricia Hersey
Osa Atoe finished reading Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by …
This is not a book to read once, set aside and move to the next thing. This is one to keep by your bedside and re-read until the lessons within become second nature. This may take years, possibly a lifetime. This is deep reprogramming work. Diving into Hersey's alternate reality will make you question what is and reimagine what is possible. Black liberationist, womanist, anti-capitalist wisdom for the ages.
Osa Atoe wants to read Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past …
Osa Atoe wants to read Black Water by David A. Robertson
Black Water by David A. Robertson
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50 Plant Medicines: Indigenous Oral History & Perspective by Chenae Bullock
About the It’s hard to protect what you cannot recognize. Many people are aware of herbs and their healing properties …
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Niklas quoted Rebel Girl by Kathleen Hanna
I want to tell you how I write songs and produce music. How singing makes me feel connected to a million miracles at once. How being onstage is the one place I feel the most me. But I can't untangle all of that from the background that is male violence.
I wish I could forget the guy who stalked me while I was making my solo record. How he sat on the roof of the building across from mine and looked Into my windows with binoculars as I worked. How he told my neighbors he thought I was a prostitute who "needed to be stopped." I wish I could slice him out of my story as a musician, but I can't.
I also don't want this book to be a list of traumas, so I'm leaving a lot of that on the cutting room floor. It's more important to remember that I've seen ugly basement rooms transform into warm campfires, dank rock-bro clubs become bright parties where girls and gay kids and misfits danced together in a sea of freedom and joy, art galleries that had only ever showcased white male mediocrity become sites of thrilling feminist collaborations. I also ate gelato on a street in Milan with my bandmates and cried because it tasted THAT FUCKING GOOD.
But yeah, there were also rapes and run-ins with assholes who threw water on my shine. I keep trying to make my rapes funny, but I have to stop doing that because they aren't. I want them to be stories because stories are made up of words, and words can't hurt me. But the things I'm writing about aren't stories, they're my blood. They're the things that shaped me. The things that keep me up at night rechecking the locks on the doors. The things that make me afraid and ashamed. The things that inspire me to keep going.
I don't feel much like a "rebel girl"-most of the time I feel more like a dirty napkin. But Dirty Napkin is a terrible title for a book. It's also not who I am.
— Rebel Girl by Kathleen Hanna (Page 1)
Osa Atoe wants to read A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby (Critical Studies in Native History, #18)
A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby, Mary Louisa Plummer (Critical Studies in Native History, #18)
From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community, Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary story is …
Osa Atoe wants to read The Red Deal by The Red Nation
The Red Deal by The Red Nation
When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to …
Osa Atoe started reading Madonna by Mary Gabriel
Madonna by Mary Gabriel
In this “infinitely readable” biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female …
I’m actually listening to the audiobook while I work in the studio. So far, it’s about indigenous and ally activism around the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Osa Atoe reviewed The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto
Using high-speed photography, Dr. Masaru Emoto demonstrates that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes …
Feel-good pseudoscience
3 stars
Reading this book as a perspective on spirituality and environmentalism is probably more important than reading it for scientifically proven facts. It's clear that Emoto's research findings are colored with subjectivity. For instance, claims that water exposed to classical music create more beautiful crystals than water exposed to heavy metal betray the author's own biases. However, none of this takes away from the spiritual messaging of this book, which perfectly coincides with so many other spiritual doctrines: that consciousness creates reality, that love and gratitude are the most essential and revolutionary spiritual values.
Emoto is basically using his research on water crystallization as the standpoint from which to draw spiritual realizations, which mirror universal spiritual tenets. It's a quick and beautiful read and his photos of water crystals are fascinating and exquisite. The strength of this book is that it ties spiritual beliefs to something tangible and ubiquitous. Also, the …
Reading this book as a perspective on spirituality and environmentalism is probably more important than reading it for scientifically proven facts. It's clear that Emoto's research findings are colored with subjectivity. For instance, claims that water exposed to classical music create more beautiful crystals than water exposed to heavy metal betray the author's own biases. However, none of this takes away from the spiritual messaging of this book, which perfectly coincides with so many other spiritual doctrines: that consciousness creates reality, that love and gratitude are the most essential and revolutionary spiritual values.
Emoto is basically using his research on water crystallization as the standpoint from which to draw spiritual realizations, which mirror universal spiritual tenets. It's a quick and beautiful read and his photos of water crystals are fascinating and exquisite. The strength of this book is that it ties spiritual beliefs to something tangible and ubiquitous. Also, the idea that water has memory is an idea that has been explored in peer-reviewed scientific research and is considered credible by many, so it's not that all of Emoto's ideas are pseudo-scientific. Furthermore, an idea does not have to be scientifically credible to be valuable and useful.