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I know people are pissed because Substack won’t censor the fascists but it’s ALSO where LOTS of queer and education based journalists are able to put food on their table because of.

I avoided this app for a month, come back and am instantly enraged. Probably time to delete the app. It’s not the apps fault. It’s the leftists clambering all over themselves to point fingers at each other for not being left enough.

They won’t even make known how many (most) are actually US citizens. Because get this… CA used to be part of Mexico and has people STILL there from that time who still speak Spanish and are brown skin… but became US citizens by birth.

It’s the ONE place that hasn’t tried censoring them while they educate the public AND keep food on their table.

I have MULTIPLE journalist friends and people I follow there who have no OTHER outlet to pay their bills as journalists WHILE reporting truth.

It’s ALSO where LOTS of antifa journalists are able to get paid while major outlets bow to Trump and fire them.

Well that’s crappy. I live in a fairly big Midwest sanctuary metro area that mostly is in a red state. We have so many rural queer people moving here that we have a lot of places you wouldn’t expect them working.

I’m a Menards gal myself. The three closest to me have more queer employees and customers everytime I’m there than any Lowe’s I’ve been in. Usually gender non conforming/nonbinary 20 somethings.

Nah I kill plants but absolutely can fix things… but I’m usually in a hardware store for art or camping supplies.

It’s July. Just because Pride month is over doesn’t mean I stopped being queer and fighting for my family’s rights to exist! Stonewall was a protest! Keep protesting!

I have NO patience for sparkle ponies! I won’t go to actual BRC because the financial and physical expense due to my disabilities and no way am I going to be someone else’s problem. I do attend regional burns… and argue with artists who use AI not understanding the implications to the art community.

This is the last year to see an Alan Wrench designed effigy. Master carpenter and craftsman.

BRC was virtual in 2020. They used a combination of video feeds from different burner bubbles doing things like putting on a play or showing off big art pieces they built in the backyard and Second Life.

Of course I don’t see one picture publicizing BRC that looks like any of the people I know that attend. My friends who run things like a bike repair service in center circle, or my friends who are 40 yr old nerdy engineers building epic tensegrity villages. They aren’t young and pretty and RICH.

Most burners who actually want to change the world for the better are more involved with regional burns. I’ve been attending our local regionals for about 17 years. Most of our people are involved in non profits, are artists, politically active, etc.

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Reshma Saujani’s commencement speech @ Harvey Mudd is the exact message we need right now. Although her focus was on gender, you can easily substitute race, immigrant status, etc. Worth watching the full speech

🔥JONES: “If they come for one of us, they will come for all of us. No one is expendable.”

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I could totally see an entire parade of different artists interpretations of this using newer technology. Like seriously an homage to this concept parading through the burn through the Artary.

Regionals happen around the world, some areas have a lot some not any, some huge like Austin TX’s and some are tiny like my regional that gets about 150-250 people.

I ask the question of why because it’s valid that burns aren’t for you. It’s also valid that, like me, regional burns are the better way to embrace the ethos of Burningman.

“Researched” as in what? Genuinely what is the part that isn’t your cup of tea? I mean it’s a lot of work to go to an Alkaline desert with everything you need for a week including mobility. It’s a lot of work to just go not with a theme camp which is like investing in a support mechanism there.

Ok so a former teammate on Speech Team where I competed this answered the question because OF COURSE she is a lit researcher. I forgot that was her MA. 😂 Her BA was specifically in theatre research.

Hey Lit majors and academics, looking for a copy of “We Interrupt to Bring You” by William Stafford. Search engines are not helping me find which book it’s in. Anyone know?

Green Dot Rangers are the best. I run Sanctuary, the green dot position of our regional burn. Someone is on call whenever needed and there is a tent with all the right things.

The regionals are where you find the true believers in high enough concentration that you actually can’t avoid them. The one I’m involved with is so much of artists and blue collar workers that sometimes having the $ for tickets is hard. But oh so worth it.

🎶Hair, grow it, show it,🎶

True. But I am in Midwest and can’t imagine bike rentals here even with the amazing amount of bike trails here. Bike rentals are such a coastal and European convenience for travelers. Midwest trails are so much a “come do the thing if you are already into the thing.”

Too many people who go don’t ever embrace the 10 principles and so many that do embrace them only attend regionals.

I mean SOOO many different types of people attend that a personality or set of interests doesn’t define one as a “burningman” person or not. What defines one as a burner doesn’t even equate to BRC resident.