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Lelt "Solomon Harris" of Kitwanga/Gitwangak Pastel by W. Langdon Kihn, 1924.
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I've seen photos of wild wolves and really old historical photos of high content wolfdogs and it looked like they have thicker legs and look a bit bigger than many modern wolfdogs? Is it just an illusion made by fur thickness/me just seeing things or is there an actual precedent for it? If so, are there any wolfdog lines that still have that really big and sturdy look?
Subspecies! Lots of the old school Alaskan Tundra lines had that sort of look. Most captive wolves and HC wolfdogs are a mix of many subspecies now, including more "refined" subspecies like Eastern timber, British Columbian, etc. You can still find thick, big headed, more jowly wolves like those Tundras out there today, they're just less common.
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Deercember Day Twenty-Seven: Columbian Black-tailed Deer | Will-o'-wisp
The Columbian black-tailed deer or blacktail (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) is found in western North America, from Northern California into the Pacific Northwest of the United States and coastal British Columbia in Canada. East of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada Ranges in Oregon and California, black-tailed deer are replaced by other mule deer which have a different tail pattern. They have sometimes been treated as a species, but virtually all recent authorities maintain they are subspecies of the mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus). Strictly speaking, the black-tailed deer group consists of two subspecies, as it also includes Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis (the Sitka deer). Despite this, the mtDNA of the white-tailed deer and mule deer are similar, but differ from that of the black-tailed deer. This may be the result of introgression, although hybrids between the mule deer and white-tailed deer are rare in the wild (apparently more common in West Texas), and the hybrid survival rate is low even in captivity. These two subspecies thrive on the edge of the forest, as the dark forest lacks the underbrush and grasslands the deer prefer as food, and completely open areas lack the hiding spots and cover they prefer for harsh weather. One of the plants that black-tailed deer browse is western poison oak, despite its irritant content. During the winter and early spring, they feed on Douglas fir, western red cedar, red huckleberry, salal, deer fern, and lichens growing on trees. Late spring to fall, they consume grasses, blackberries, apples, fireweed, pearly everlasting, forbs, salmonberry, salal, and maple. More information here.
References: Deer, Background, Mushrooms 1, Mushrooms 2.
#this went better than I ever could have hoped or expected and may be my new favourite#this one is special to me because this subspecies of mule deer is exactly the same#as lives on the property where Stan and I will be building our home#and is one of only a handful of deer who I've had the honour of seeing in person#the mushroom species is the western jack-o'-lantern mushroom (Omphalotus olivascens) native to California and Mexico#shoutout to my bestie Wind for the amazing suggestion for a natural will-o'-wisp#I am‚ quite frankly‚ blown away with myself today#Deercember#realHum#Art#Drawing#deer#deer art#Columbian black-tailed deer#Columbian blacktail deer#Columbian blacktail#black-tailed deer#blacktail deer#blacktail#Odocoileus hemionus columbianus
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hi sorry to bother you i know this is like a dead issue now but i was a massive fan of kevin before the hogwarts legacy shit, i’m a trans guy and i stopped watching him because of it. i really miss his content though, his channel is pretty much all the games i like and my sense of humour, but i feel so conflicted about wanting to go back to his content. i was just curious what your thought process was around rejoining the cult? i know it’s kinda weird to ask now since it’s been like 6 months since it happened but i feel really weird about it.
also like. no pressure to answer i don’t know if this is crossing a line or anything sorry
It’s okay don’t worry :) enough time has passed, to me at least. Tbh this is the first I’ve heard about this in a while lol.
It’s okay to feel conflicted. I don’t speak for everyone here but everyone I talk to regularly has forgiven him but won’t forget that this happened.
I do believe he learned from this, he hasn’t done anything HP related since then, besides for a few ps1 Hagrid cameos (which is fine, ps1 Hagrid has been a channel meme for a while). I just hope this doesn’t age poorly.
What started getting me back was a bit after the apology post I noticed that other YouTubers were doubling down on their decisions or just not saying anything, including ones I used to respect. Even though I wished Kevin did more than just a Reddit post, I’m glad he didn’t stay silent and admitted he fucked up. His intention wasn’t malicious, unlike a lot of other creators, which is why I was more forgiving with him compared to others. Though I still lost a lot of respect which was regained over time.
Oddly enough what got me to really respect him again was his video on those American Superpastors and Megachurches. Having grown up in one (though in Canada, they exist here but aren’t as big) it was very healing. He couldn’t say it because he didn’t want to get sued, but he was very heavily implying that he believes it’s all a huge scam and they’re exploiting people. But he’s right, I’ve witnessed it myself. Never would’ve expected him to make a video like that and be so bold with it. I’m glad Europeans see what goes on here and think “what the fuck?!” Great video definitely recommend.
Other than that, mainly just enough time passed where I no longer feel that way. I missed the sense of community which is why I rejoined the fandom but it’s not my main one anymore. I mostly do my own thing these days. It was awesome going to Vancoufur as Werewolf Jim and meeting CMK fans there too, I could’ve sworn I was the only British Columbian in the entire fandom. Though I don’t fully trust the fandom still, mainly people I don’t recognize. But not anyone here, Tumblr isn’t really the site for those people.
Not much else has really changed in his content, just no more HP videos in general (as of July 22, 2023) and the fast-paced editing has mostly stopped. He now only uploads on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays now + any 2nd channel content, song covers or streams. The community has changed a lot though. The Reddit protests caused the subreddit to shut down so it’s gone, so there’s now no longer one big gathering spot besides Discord, which is the one side of the community I’m not in.
It’s really your choice if you wanna start watching again, anonymous user. Do whatever makes you happy :)
Since this is related, I haven’t heard a thing about HL since February. It really was just a mid game that was only popular because it was controversial. Transphobes really spent a lot of money on this, they’re the real losers. I know single player games get less players overtime but a lot of them still get talked about, replayed or are still relevant. Idk just my thoughts. If you really want a magic game with custom spells, play Oblivion’s Mages Guild questline or modded Skyrim.
Also sorry if I got back to this so late. I haven’t had a stable connection for a while until now. I’ve been away, escaping wildfires. Average Canadian summer activities.
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I would argue that humans have been chronically dehydrated since ... well... For a very very very long time.
Access to entirely safe, clean, untainted water is a luxury. It's a luxury not everyone can afford IN THE PRESENT DAY no less. And it used to be so much worse.
Humans possibly invented* alcohol (*fermentation naturally occurs in nature but you get what I mean) not initially for the drug aspect but because the fermentation process makes it safer to drink. There was actually studies that show increased alcohol availability around industrial revolution times lead to lower cases of deaths from waterborne illnesses. (Not to be confused with John Snow(lol) discovering that cholera cases were less common in brewery workers, because as far as I could tell THAT specific instance was more the result of them having access to different well water sources that weren't the main sources tainted by waste, which was the leading cause of cholera in large urban areas) Tainted water supply has been the cause of horrifying deadly diseases for the entirety of our species history. And the act of living in larger cities had made that worse with the water supply being much more easily contaminated with waste runoff. It's only from modern infrastructure and waste treatment that cities have become safer.
My point being is that humans have probably since recorded history ALWAYS been at least somewhat chronically dehydrated because the alternative would result in a direct increase of the risks from those two factors (water sources that were unsafe in the first place/lack of available water sources entirely, and a side effect of large communal living further contaminating what "safe" water sources we did have access to) So this resulted in our having completely normalized the side effects of chronic dehydration for generations upon generations. And it's only now in our digital age of increasingly advanced understanding of molecular biology, health, and medicine that we're discovering just how bad the situation has always been. Not everyone lived within access of crystal clear glacier runoff. Many of us relied a lot more on getting our daily intake of liquids from the food we ate instead. And it's only now that we're able to see just how drastic that difference can be. Anyways all of this is to say that access to reliable clean water should be a human right and it's something we should fight tooth and nail for especially now that we're learning just how drastic of an impact it can have. Especially in the long run. (I literally JUST learned that thing about "knots in the muscles" from this post)
The variation of water quality and subsequent safety is something I've always been aware of because I'm agonizingly sensitive to drinking water. The high sediment content (enough to stain porcelain sinks deep ruddy orange over time) in small town southern Saskatchewan water is something my hypersensitivity drastically prefers over the (still pretty hard??) heavily treated stuff of northern British Columbian cities. To the point that I cannot bring myself to physically drink tap water. At all. The taste, smell, and texture is entirely different. My houseplants coincidentally also seemingly do worse if I do not boil their water or outright just buy them distilled water. It's not just me and my silly little plants though. The mineral content in tap water can build up and damage sensitive machinery such as medical equipment which is why distilled water is used in those things instead. Pretty much everything added to tap water has some beneficial quality for us humans drinking it but that doesn't change the fact that it's being added and I'd argue the type of water/treatment you grew up with permanently influences your taste in water going forward. My grandparents, also in southern Saskatchewan but on a farmstead and without access to water mains (had a cistern/well/idk), were my primary caretakers for the first few years of my life and I drank probably more in the means of juice than what is ideal for a young child. And thanks to my autistic hypersensitive ass this would be a habit that became impossible to break when I moved to BC and suddenly the tap water tasted like "acid soap" rather than the rich flavour of the previously closest town's running water (that which was excessively rich in sediments) or my go-to always reliable consistent taste and textured apple juice (sugar addiction in humans what with us being descended from frugivore apes is its own subject entirely that I won't touch on here but yeah needless to say sugar cravings are generally something our brains tend to prioritize over drinking just plain water unfortunately)
The water fountains at parks and in my elementary school were fine and I drank from them freely. But the residential tap water... god... It might as well have been pool water there was too much chlorine.
Where I'm going with this is, stay hydrated. Hydrate yourself as much as you can. Because it's important. Humans benefit from a lot more water than the average person probably thinks we do, clearly. It can cause according to OP, chronic muscle injury. But don't feel guilty about hating tap water. You're not crazy, there ARE chemicals in there. Not harmful chemicals mind you, please don't fall for "raw water" scams, that's how you get all manner of diseases, just get distilled water then, but don't feel bad about being able to notice and dislike your local tap water and having to drink bottled water or mixing something into your water like a juice or a tea. We're all probably adapted to be a bit more sensitive than we should be to differences in water BECAUSE of our history with the high risk of contamination, which is something people out there in many places are still facing today.
Also shit like golf courses and the mass production of things like almond milk are an abuse of our precious water supply and we should prioritize that water going to people and our environment first and foremost. Don't feel guilty about "wasting" water as an individual. You're not. It's blame being shifted. Use your water. That's what it's there for. Have baths and water your plants and just play in it sometimes.
Stay hydrated my friends. By any means necessary. It's a privilege your ancestors would be beyond proud and relieved you now have. Our water being as reliably safe and clean as it is represents generations of scientific research, advancement, and innovation. Untold numbers of humans working together to bring you, the people of today, something they could only have dreamed of. And remember the importance of water in your social activism. Because it's something we need to protect as well.
#text post#long post#sorry to ramble I was just craving the sediment water something fierce when this post came across my dash#and I felt really upset I can't just drown in the stuff#you know in small town Saskatchewan outdoor pools would be this exciting adventurous murky orangey color#couldn't see the bottom so the diving for treasure game was a lot more fun#and once out of the water I could actually let it dry on my skin and it wouldn't make me feel all tingly and itchy#I never fully feel clean after a bath or a shower here and I blame the water#you know how they sell like bottled water from fucking fiji or some shit? Imagine my beautiful ruddy Saskatchewan water instead#also yeah I literally do not drink the tap water here other than like when I make lemonade or my own iced tea#have had people tease me about not drinking water but they don't know what it's like to be homesick for the type of fucking water#and on that subject I feel a nostalgic grief with remembering how the baths were from that underground tank water at my grandparents house#their little green enamel bathroom and the cool safe way having a bath in that bathtub felt. such an old blurry faint memory#but such a comforting one of that little green bathtub#the water here feels fucking SHARP on my goddamn skin. It's WORSE than how it was on the coast where I spent the majority of my childhood#I fucking HATE northern BC tap water man#although there's also the very real possibility due to our shitty landlords that we just have something wrong with our plumbing#either way I fucking miss the Saskatchewan water#every time I got to visit again as an older child it just felt so... right... you know?#like home is part of your flesh and your bones and the way water is supposed to taste and the way it's supposed to evaporate off your skin
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You just posted like ten different things about potatoes in the span of maybe five minutes, and I gotta know your take on "The Martian".
Like, the (fictional) man alone on a planet literally only survives because of potatoes shrink-wrapped in plastic for a Thanksgiving meal. If they weren't slated to be on Mars for Thanksgiving, he would have died.
And Andy Weir (author of the original novel) did such a good job with the science of every other element to the story, I honest-to-god believe that potatoes could actually manage to grow in Martian soil (even if that's not been proven for certain afaik).
Which means..... could potatoes terraform Mars into sustaining life??? Are potatoes the key to the universe???
Haha sorry for going so hard on them! Those were mostly all posts from 2020 when gardening and fantasy worldbuilding were lockdown fixations for me. One of them blew up recently so I wanted to give The People more of the content it seemed they were looking for. I don't actually know a lot about potatoes. I just think they're neat.
I do not want to take apart the concept of "colonizing Mars" as some kind of woke gotcha. I want to take your question seriously and charitably. However, I just am the kind of person who's like "Hmm, 'colonize', we should really stop and unpack that word," so let's do that, without forgetting the potato element.
(What "I don't know a lot" means: Potatoes were a crop my family grew several acres of for a few years on our farm before we switched our focus to sheep. I am about 50% as reliable as a horticultural brochure on various potato diseases and growing condition issues. I have listened to two University lectures and read perhaps four historical journal articles beginning-to-end on how the Columbian Exchange affected early-modern Europe, that and half as much again on medieval and early modern European farming practices and population changes, and perhaps three science/history articles specifically on the domestication and proliferation of the potato. I am a white Canadian who actively seeks out information and training in Indigenous history and culture in the Americas, but that's probably still only equal to like, two Native Studies classes in university. I know more than the average person on this topic, but I am also not an expert compared to people who have devoted serious time to learning about this.)
But I have some intuitions in a couple of ways:
The Martian is probably being wildly over-optimistic about its potatoes. They would probably have been irradiated into sterility before being vacuum-packed, and I don't think you can split and propagate them that quickly or successfully. However, potatoes can definitely grow in all kinds of conditions (including under my sink).
They might not be the world's healthiest or happiest potatoes, tho. Soil quality definitely affects the end product. Presumably Watney, being a botanist studying Mars' soil composition, knew how much he had to ameliorate his soil with latrine compost (which would definitely have needed a LOT of processing, since human waste is generally not good for plants, but maybe he used chemicals to speed that up?) to get good soil. However, we would probably need to add a LOT of shit to Mars' soil (and air, and water) for it to host plant life.
Mark Watney makes a joke about having "colonized Mars" because "colony" is Latin for "farm" and he farmed on Mars so haha, funny joke! And we talk about colonies on Mars partly because that's what science fiction did, and a lot of science fiction has been into that colonialism aesthetic. But colonialism and empires actually aren't great, not just because they necessitate huge amounts of racism, oppression, and genocide—I know, you asked me a fun question about potatoes and did not sign up for this, I'm not here to drag you, hear me out—but because they're also really sucky models for agriculture and successful societies generally.
My British ancestors tried to be colonial farmers in a place that is sometimes colder than Mars (Canada's Treaty Six), and let me tell you: IT SUCKED. Most of the crops and herbs and vegetables and flowers that settlers here brought from home and are used to? DON'T FUCKEM GROW. For the Canadian prairies to become conventional farmland, farmers and scientists had to scramble to find, or produce, cold-hardy varieties of everything from wheat to roses. A lot of flowers and plants that are unkillable invasive zombie perennials in other climates don't survive our winters no matter hard we try. The trees and flowers that hold cultural or sentimental attachments for us often don't grow here. The climate is so harsh and population is spread so thin that we cannot do the 100 mile diet and eat foods we're familiar with, and can hardly even manage the 1000 mile diet. (Not that I try, but, my family did once look into it)
A huge number of colonial homesteads, where the pioneers go out on their little covered wagon and build little houses on the prairie? Failed miserably and got bought up by land speculators. My own family came out to Alberta in the 1880s and moved around from land assignment to land assignment, like, six times before settling at their current place in the early 1900s.
Meanwhile: POTATOES
Potatoes are less than ten thousand years old! I am not any kind of expert on archaeology, please nobody throw things, but humans showed up in the Andes (think: high, cold mountains) of South America roughly 9,000 years ago. There are hundreds of wild potato varieties, but they generally produce fairly tiny tubers. It took active work of Indigenous Andean people around 8,000 years ago around Lake Titicaca to cultivate specific strains of potato, doing oldschool genetic modification to make them bigger, more delicious, and hardier. From that cultivation effort around a single species of wild potatoes, they produced thousands of cultivated potato varieties.
Ancient Andean farmers and botanists also played a big part in cultivating quinoa from wild amaranth, as well as producing modern food crops you probably haven't heard of, like oca, olluco, mashua, and yacon, and also coca, which may get a bad rap because it's what cocaine and coca-cola are made from but you cannot deny it's got kick.
Basically, Indigenous people of the Americas (South, Central, and North) went all in on botany and plant cultivation. Plants that we take for granted now have mostly been developed by Indigenous people in the past few thousand years: Tobacco, sunflowers, marigolds, tomatoes, pumpkins, rubber, vanilla, cocoa, sweetcorn, maize, and most kinds of pepper except peppercorn. These things were not found; they were made, by careful cultivation of the world as it was.
This gives us a vision of the future. Colonization, and industrial agriculture, both lean us towards the vision of a totally uniform end product, with the same potato varieties grown on each farm because we have made every farm the same. Instead we could embrace biodiversity and focus on privileging local knowledge and considering the interactions of environment, plants, microbiota, and people. We could create potatoes that were happy on Mars. We could create Mars that is happy to have us. We could create a society that can accept what Mars has to offer.
A lot of why we dream about colonizing Mars is the idea that the Earth itself is dying, that we are killing it, and we need to abandon this farmstead and seek out a new frontier. I acknowledge that shit is bad, but I don't agree with that framing. I am increasingly persuaded that there is a third path between ecological destruction and mass exodus, and I think we need to reject European colonial mentality that creates the forced choice. I find far more use in privileging the knowledge of people who live on and with land than their landlords and rulers, and I especially find value in Indigenous knowledge of land management practices and food production.
I am absolutely not saying that Indigenous people were or are wonderful magical ~spiritual beings~ who frolicked in an Edenic paradise that only knew death and disease once white people showed up. This isn't noble savage bullshit, nor am I invoking people who existed once but whom I have never met. I am saying that I have Indigenous neighbours, colleagues, relatives, and elected representatives. I have learned about mental health, leatherworking, botany, and ecology from Metis and First Nations elders and knowledge-keepers. And like. They have good and useful shit to say.
This is about culture, not race. It is not that their biological DNA means that they know more than me about how to get food from this landscape. It's about cultural history and what we learn from our heritages. What have our cultures privileged? Like, Europe has historically been super into things like metallurgy, domesticating livestock, and creating dairy products. If I want to smelt iron or choose animals to make cheese from, European society would have a lot of useful information for me! And what Indigenous cultures in the Americas have historically focused on instead of cows and copper* include 1) getting REAL familiar with your local flora and figuring out how to make sure you have lots of the herbs and grains and roots and berries you need, and 2) how to make a human society where people can live and have good lives, but do not damage the environment enough to impair the ability of future generations to have the same sort of life.
*Several indigenous American cultures did practice various forms of metallurgy. It's just one of those proportional things, about what societies really go for
Conclusion
I think we could use the processes that formed the potato to find and foster forms of life that could survive on Mars. It would involve learning to think that botany is a sexy science, and understanding just how rich and complicated the environment is. To oxygenate the atmosphere, we'd have to get super enthusiastic about algae and lichen and wetlands. We would have to learn to care deeply about the microorganisms living in the soil, and whether the potatoes are happy.
We'd have to create an economy that counts oxygen and carbon dioxide production on its balance sheets. To learn how to wait for forests to grow back after a fire, instead of giving up in despair because the seedlings aren't trees yet. To do the work now and be hopeful even though we might not see the payoffs for decades, or our victories might only be witnessed by future generations.
So yes, I think we could totally plant potatoes on Mars
But I also think that if we ever got there, we'd have turned into the kind of people who could also save Earth in the first place.
Which makes it a good enough goal in my opinion.
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At one point, this PDF/online document was set as my homepage for a week or two. It’s a nice compilation, from 2017, of recent artistic, academic, and activist work on the cultural importance of forests with special focus on decolonization; Indigenous voices; biosemiotics and “forest as community”; and Amazonian cosmology. The intent here seemed to be the mingling of research and art to explore the decolonization of ecological thought and the “emotional, socio-political, and eco-cultural” significance of forests in “an age of extinction.” It’s not always great (there are some kind of suspect, twee contributions from Euro-American), but there is also some good material here, especially about “forest as organism”; Indigenous justice in Brazil; cosmology; and the Amazon.
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From the introduction:
Borrowing its title from Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1972 science fiction novella, The Word for World is Still Forest is composed in these pages as an homage to the forest as a turbulent and generative multinature. Throughout this book, we invite you to join us in traversing the mighty forests of Amazonia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Northwest, arriving in the old urban woods of Berlin, where this book was published. [...]
Moving from concepts of the forest as a thinking superorganism to the linear monocultural plantations and “concrete jungles” that threaten the life of global forests, you will encounter trees as companions, communities, entities, and providers; in other moments, they will appear as expert witnesses, data stories, or resourceful ancestors. Whether they occur as images, subjects, or architectures, the forests of this world will beckon you to remember that their destiny is entangled with yours. […] Since we began to work on this volume in 2014, the relevance of Le Guin’s description of militarized, ecocidal violence has only continued to intensify. [...]
This homage to words and forests is followed by an essay from Pedro Neves Marques about the particularities of Amerindian multinaturalism that sharpens our sense of the forest as an ontological multiplicity teeming with relations, perspectives, and temporalities. [...]
That such forests and worlds are largely incommensurable with Eurocentric image-making technologies poses a serious challenge to understanding and solidarity by demanding that we learn “how to inhabit the space of the in-between, the interval between ‘worlds’ in order to contribute to a decolonization of the many worlds from the imposition of the ‘one world.’” This book is an attempt to open up a space for these transformations. [...]
Curator Dan Handel presents a paginated version of his research on wood as a vital aspect of forest mythologies and a driver of industrial resource management. By translating elements from his previous exhibitions into this volume, Handel contributes to a renegotiation of the metaphors and mechanisms that render the forest present in human habits of consumption, creativity, and ideation.
Canadian forest ecologist Suzanne Simard examines how underground networks of fungi uptake nutrients of salmon brought from sea to river to land by grizzlies and wolves. Simard’s text summarizes her ongoing collaboration with researchers from various First Nations communities in British Columbia to offer a defense of nature as a tangled web rather than a taxonomical order. Accompanied by visualizations from forestry researcher Kevin Beiler, this contribution makes a plea for a more holistic approach to forestry science and urges us to “fundamentally transform the modern scientific image of nature as a resource.”
Remaining with the motif of the axe implicit in Castleman’s work, we follow Nonuya knowledge-elder Abel Rodríguez (also known as Mogaje Guihu) to the Middle Caquetá River region in the Colombian Amazon. He shares an oral narrative conveying the discovery and eventual felling of the Tree of Abundance, which relays the origin of social, territorial, and ecological inter-dependency in the Amazon; at the same time, this mythological narrative alludes to the beginning of labor, violence, and disease. Rodríguez’s storytelling was transcribed and edited in collaboration with Carlos Rodríguez from the Tropenbos International Colombia forest conservation group and the philosopher and editor Catalina Vargas Tovar.
An understanding of the Amazon as an anthropogenically cultivated multinature is further elaborated in the contribution by Brazilian architect, urbanist, and activist Paulo Tavares. His essay and richly annotated selection of archival photographs and contemporary cartographies expose the “politics of erasure” deployed by the Brazilian state against Indigenous peoples and their lands in the twentieth century. Highlighting the hybrid literacies required by resistance movements fighting illegal logging, plantations, evictions, and development, Tavares shows that genocide and ecocide are often two sides of the same coin in struggles for land sovereignty. He also underscores the politi-cally significant thesis that many forests of the Amazon region are the result of Pre-Columbian domestication and cultivation practices. By rendering Amazonia palpable as the living ruin of an “‘expanded polis,’ within which humans and nonhumans co-inhabit a common political space,” he infinitely complicates any comfortable dichotomies of city, civilization, and culture versus forest, wilderness, and nature. An interview with anthropologist Eduardo Kohn, based on his book How Forests Thinkand observations from his fieldwork in Ecuador, explores the philosophical implications of nonhuman thought. After a discussion about “thinking-with” multispecies semiotics, we conclude our conversation with questions about how to cultivate a forest-like mindfulness even in non-forest ecologies—a provocation that we hope resonates through many other contributions in this book as well.
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Included is an essay by Pedro Neves Marques which, in my opinion, provides a nice and concise summary of “Amazonianist” scholarship, Amazonian cosmology and animism, and the work of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Viveiros de Castro’s work is celebrated for its respect for and attention to detail in Amazonian worldviews, and is often cited as an example of the importance of Amazonian/Indigenous “multinaturalism” and animism as alternatives to Western scientific naturalism.
Also, Paulo Tavares’s article here is - again, in my opinion - good and important. The Brazilian state denies that a genocide took place against the Waimiri Atroari people. But Tavares mapped the local forest region to clearly demonstrate that not only were the Waimiri Atroari forcibly removed, but that they also had a previously underreported and sophisticated system of agroecology and forest management.
Some of the editorial commentary can verge on twee Euro-American/Western mysticism and cultural appropriation, but the articles and essays themselves are nice. There is some questionable content occasionally referenced in the text - including some commentary from a Western academic who drinks ayahuasca - so take some of the material with a grain of salt. All-in-all, it’s an enjoyable read, though. If nothing else, there are some good citations and resources for further reading.
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The Word for World is Still Forest. In intercalations 4. Edited by Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin. In association with Kirsten Einfeldt and Daniela Wolf. February 2017. [Available online for free.]
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Premier John Horgan has issued the following statement about Reclaiming Power and Place, the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls:
“As British Columbians and Canadians receive this final report of the national inquiry investigating the disproportionate levels of racialized, sexualized and systemic violence experienced by Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit peoples, we recognize the enormous courage of the survivors and families who have brought us to this moment.
“There is no statement I can make that will do justice to your lived experiences, or the pain you have endured. It has taken immense courage and leadership to share the truth of the trauma that you, your families and your communities have experienced and continue to experience. In honour of the women, girls and two-spirit peoples who have been stolen and those who have survived, we are committed to learning from your stories, to taking action and to enacting change.
“This report brings to the forefront the magnitude of the gendered impacts of colonial violence, one so severe the inquiry has called it a ‘Canadian genocide.’ We will be reviewing the report and recommendations in detail and considering them along with historic recommendations from survivors, families and communities, and the work currently underway in B.C. – as well as our government’s broader commitment to implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action.
“Dismantling the underlying and systemic issues that result in Indigenous women experiencing violence at a much higher rate than non-Indigenous women is fundamental to our government’s work toward true and lasting reconciliation. We are actively working in collaboration with Indigenous partners and communities to build relationships based on the inherent right to self-determination and we believe that this is an important part of addressing the conditions that result in violence.
“We are committed to developing a path forward to end violence against Indigenous women and girls that will be directly informed by survivors, family members and communities. Community-based engagement to collaborate on taking concrete steps together will soon begin and will continue through the summer and early fall.”
Learn More:
To review the B.C. submission to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, visit: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/justice/about-bcs-justice-system/recent-inquiries
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A Priestess of Book Design
The career of Alice Cordelia Morse reflects the changing role of women in art and society in the late 19th century. Morse was able to achieve success in many artistic fields, designing book covers, illustrations, and stained glass, while also experimenting with other decorative media such as china painting and needlework. Although this title-page design was never published, it appears to have been intended for What Women Can Earn: Occupations of Women and Their Compensation (1899), a collection of essays on the various professions available to women in America. The design demonstrates the increasing sense of power and independence that women like Morse were experiencing as more career opportunities opened up for them.
The preface of the publication summarizes its content: “The nature of the work in each trade, the preparation required, the cost of training and apprenticeship, the need of economy of strength as well as of money, the places where instruction may be obtained, the best means of attaining success, and, finally, the probable remuneration, are explained clearly and sympathetically.”[1] Intended as a useful guide to help women make an informed decision about which occupation they should pursue and how they should pursue it, the book also conveys a sense of optimism about the position of women in society. The author of the preface observes, “nothing is more marked, at this time, in all parts of the country, than the fact that women with proper training are making themselves formidable competitors with men in a great variety of practical occupations, in which twenty-five years ago they were scarcely known, and in some of them actually displacing men.”[2]
During the late 19th century, the Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts movements were transforming the field of decorative arts and creating new work opportunities for female artists and designers like Morse. Morse attended one of the few art schools open to women, the Woman’s Art School of the Cooper Union, and studied with John La Farge, a master of stained-glass techniques. Morse then worked for the firm of Louis C. Tiffany, designing at least seventy stained-glass windows, before she left in 1889 to focus on book-cover commissions. She also decided to return to Cooper Union for postgraduate studies, and by the age of 29, she appears to have succeeded in supporting herself through her work; as the annual report for the Woman’s School notes, “A young woman reports $280 earned by making designs for book covers for Scribner’s, Harper’s, and others.”[3]
In addition, Morse chaired the Sub-Committee on Book-Covers, Wood Engraving, and Illustration of the Board of Women Managers for the Woman’s Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. The exposition was the first fair to have a building dedicated to the accomplishments of women that was also planned and administered by women. Morse’s contributions included writing for the official guide, Art and Handicraft in the Woman’s Building, and the creation of an award-winning exhibition of her book covers inside the building. Morse’s career also involved work for the New York Society of Decorative Art, an organization that was committed to helping American women artists by sponsoring courses and providing a venue for exhibitions, lectures, and the sale of decorative goods made by women.
Morse was a prolific and successful creator of book-cover designs—she produced eighty-three covers for a variety of New York publishers, achieved widespread acclaim for her abilities, and participated in bookbinding exhibitions at the Grolier Club and Aldine Club. She was committed to the principles of the Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts movements, seeking to bring art to all aspects of everyday life. Morse helped elevate the status of the commercially-produced book through the application of diverse types of ornament—including Classical, Celtic, Arabic, Gothic, Rococo, and Art Nouveau motifs—to book design, taking inspiration from British designers such as Owen Jones, the author of the design masterpiece Grammar of Ornament (1856).[4]
The swirling, intertwining vines in this title-page design recall the plant forms used by William Morris in his textile and wallpaper designs. They overlap with the woman’s figure and wrap around objects as they move across the composition, conveying a sense of uninhibited growth and dynamic energy that resonates with the expansion of opportunities for women. Standing tall and composed, with a row of gold flowers crowning her red hair, and a gold medallion strung from bands at the center of her long, black dress, the woman resembles a powerful Celtic priestess. The large, gold book, held in a prominent position across her body, suggests a direct relationship between knowledge and power while alluding to the connection between books and the successful career of Morse herself. Framed on either side by tall, black torches with curling flames, the woman suggests the ability of all women to eternally achieve and inspire.
Carey Gibbons is a Cataloguer in the Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design Department at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
[1] What Women Can Earn: Occupations of Women and Their Compensation (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899), iii.
[2] Ibid., iv.
[3] Mindell Dubansky, “The Proper Decoration of Book Covers and Alice Cordelia Morse,” Gazette of the Grolier Club, New Series, no. 52 (2001): 64.
[4] Mindell Dubansky, “Alice Cordelia Morse (1863–1961),” accessed Nov. 13, 2018, https://ift.tt/2zOVYCy.
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Preparation and Pre-reflection
Hello everyone! My name is Chanelle and I will be documenting my experience participating in the Welfare Food Challenge for the next 7 days. The Welfare Food Challenge was created by a British Columbian coalition called Raise the Rates in 2011. Its purpose is to emphasize the inadequacy of welfare rates in British Columbia. For this challenge, I am going to be attempt to live off of less than $21 worth of food for the entire week. This number struck me as extremely low but upon reading more about the Welfare Food Challenge, I learned that the challenge was cancelled in 2018 due to an increased cost of living with a disproportionate increase in welfare rates. Considering the amount of monthly assistance and subsequent expenses such as rent, bills, transportation, and personal hygiene products, Raise the Rates calculated that the average person on welfare would have $23 per month left for food. That is less than $6 per week! It is impossible to expect people to eat on $6 per week so the challenge was cancelled and a blank cookbook was published. A blank cookbook chosen to convey the scary reality for 70 221 British Columbians in the fiscal year of 2016-2017 and 91 267 Albertans in 2017. Below are links that provide further detail on the number of Albertans and British Columbians utilizing Social Assistance Programs and associated trends.
Alberta Social Assistance Summary: https://maytree.com/wp-content/uploads/Social_Assistance_Summaries_AB.pdf
British Columbia Social Assistance Summary: https://maytree.com/wp-content/uploads/Social_Assistance_Summaries_BC.pdf
More can be read about the Cancellation of The Welfare Food Challenge in 2018 here: https://welfarefoodchallenge.org/2018/12/14/cancelled-2018-welfare-food-challenge/
More on Raise the Rates: https://raisetheratesbc.ca/
Alberta Health Services released a report in 2015 entitled, ‘The Cost of Healthy Eating in Alberta”. According to this report, as a 23-year-old female living in Alberta it would cost me an average of $289.97 per month (approximately $72.50 per week) to eat a basic, healthy diet that meets my nutritional needs. That is over 3 times my budget! With this in mind, I knew this shopping trip would be a challenge. I decided to stop at Walmart as they typically have lower prices. I went with the plan of buying foods that will make me feel full (high protein and fibre) and provide some nutritional value. Typically, I am aware of the prices of the items I buy and I try and save money by reaching for the less-expensive alternative. However, I have never paid attention to the price of food like I did today. I spent the entirety of the trip with a calculator in my hand adding up the prices as I went, and longingly looking at the items I could not afford (coffee and creamer, mostly). I was relieved when the total came to $20.37. I bought: 12 eggs, a bag of rotini pasta, 3 apples, a bundle of 6 bananas, a stalk of celery, a cucumber, 1 can of black beans, a bag of quick oats, 2 cans of tuna, and a box of granola bars. I have a busy week ahead and I must allot time to plan my meals and pack lunches in order to stick with the challenge. Looking at my purchases, I will also need to get creative in the kitchen in order to have some variety in my meals. In the meantime, I am going to enjoy my last afternoon before the challenge officially begins tomorrow morning!
Link to “The Cost of Healthy Eating in Alberta Article”: https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/nutrition/if-nfs-the-cost-of-healthy-eating-in-alberta-.pdf
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Spirit bears, also known as Kermode bears, are among the world’s rarest ursines, found only in the remote archipelago of British Columbia’s central coast. They’re a subspecies of the black bear, born white when two dark-furred parents carry an obscure genetic mutation. The British Columbian government estimates there are 400 spirit bears in the province, and hunting them is illegal...
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Exercise: Contemporary ceramics
I was unsure where to start for this exercise so I made a mind-map looking and various areas of ceramics to see if I could generate any ideas.
I thought about working with the idea of commemorative ceramics (especially in the style of British Royal Commemorative ceramics) and creating my own mugs etc to commemorate family members and events.
(Legacy Antiques, 2020) (Legacy Antiques, 2020)
I discovered the work of Roberto Lugo and how he subverts the traditions of those chosen to be depicted on ceramics by commemorating civil rights activists, hip-hop artists and victims of police brutality.
(Wexler Gallery, 2020)
Although I felt there was scope to create some interesting designs however I wasn’t sure about using portraiture at such a small scale.
Another idea I explored was the history of apothecary/pharmacy/drug jars. Prior to modern pharmaceutical dispensary, medications, medicinal herbs etc were stored in ceramic/stoneware jars. These jars were used across the world and there are many examples, although the styles vary there are some consistent features, the shape and size (although some have handles) is designed to allow the jars to be lined up next to each and easy to grab. A common feature is a space to mark what the contents of the jar is for easy identification. Often there is an image on the jar linking it to the pharmacy, pharmacist or the craftsman of the jar.
Drug jar, made in Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico, about 1700-50. (Drug jar | V&A Search the Collections, 2020)
Drug jar, decorated on one side with the Royal Arms of Portugal, made in Lisbon, about 1650-70(Drug jar | V&A Search the Collections, 2020)
Drug jar late 16th century or early 17th century, France (Jar | V&A Search the Collections, 2020)
Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware, made in Faenza, Italy, 1490-1500
'Ssuc nenuferi' Water-lily juice
(Drug jar | V&A Search the Collections, 2020)
Apothecary Jar with Running Hares and a Dog 12th century, Iran (Apothecary Jar, 2020)
Drug Jar late16th century-early 17th century (Jar | V&A Search the Collections, 2020)
Pharmacy jar ca. 1579, Italy (Pharmacy jar, Met Museum, 2020)
Reflecting on my research I began to consider how I could relate the conventions of the historical drug jars to a modern setting. I thought about my relationship with drugs. I have my prescribed medication that comes in boxes stored on shelves or a rack. Keeping tablets or inhalers in a jar isn’t particularly hygienic or practical. I also consume a legal drug every day multiple times a day, coffee. Without caffeine I struggle to function, I get withdrawal, headaches, grumpy. Coffee is often stored in jars within the home so I felt this could be a good relationship to explore.
I purchased a plain black jar/canister from IKEA, this gave me dimensions which helped when mapping out the design. I decided to go with organic features as all the decorative jars I looked at used plant and floral motifs. As I planed for coffee to be stored, I used coffee plants as a starting point.
Like the pharmacy branding on many of the jars, I thought about what my branding would be. I doodled things that I like, skulls, stars but nothing really leapt out. I like Columbian coffee, well, all coffee but at the moment Columbian coffee. As many of the drug jars feature animals I researched butterflies that are native to Columbia and other animals.
The above design felt too organic, whereas historically they are more stationary motifs. I revisited the layout to make it symmetrical and static. I changed the label from ‘Coffee’ to ‘Caffeine’ as it sounded more medicinal.
Working to a rough scale I developed this pattern piece to be repeated four times around the base of the jar. I researched fonts and picked Gotisch Weiss UNZ1A as it suited the style of many of the other jars I looked at.
I used white pencil to roughly mark the design onto the jar and used Posca and Liquitex markers to draw the patterns. I sealed the jar with a varnish to attempt to imitate the glaze in the jars I had researched. I am pleased with the overall concept of the piece and feel that it appropriately fits the brief, however, I’m unsure about the final execution and wonder if acrylic and fine paint brushes would have been a better choice of medium over the marker pens. I feel that had I done that perhaps the visual impression would be closer to the aesthetic of the painted ceramics I researched and appear more polished.
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2020. Jar| V&A Search The Collections. [online] Available at: <https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O307583/jar/> [Accessed 14 July 2020].
BBC News. 2020. Discovering Colombia's Rare Flora And Fauna. [online] Available at: <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-52948635> [Accessed 15 July 2020].
Collections.vam.ac.uk. 2020. Drug Jar | V&A Search The Collections. [online] Available at: <http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O162401/drug-jar-unknown/> [Accessed 14 July 2020].
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Collections.vam.ac.uk. 2020. Jar | V&A Search The Collections. [online] Available at: <http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O337308/jar-unknown/> [Accessed 14 July 2020].
Dafont.com. 2020. Gotisch Weiss UNZ1A Font | Dafont.Com. [online] Available at: <https://www.dafont.com/gotisch-weiss-unz1a.font?fpp=200&text=Caffeine> [Accessed 15 July 2020].
Legacy Antiques, 2020. Coronet China Investiture Of The Prince Of Wales Bone China Souvenir Mug C.1969. [image] Available at: <https://legacyantiques.co.uk/coronet-china-investiture-of-the-prince-of-wales-bone-china-souvenir-mug-c-1969.html> [Accessed 28 July 2020].
Legacy Antiques, 2020. Sadler Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee (1977) Commemorative Mug. [image] Available at: <https://legacyantiques.co.uk/sadler-queen-elizabeth-ii-silver-jubilee-1977-commemorative-mug.html> [Accessed 28 July 2020].
Metmuseum.org. 2020. Apothecary Jar. [online] Available at: <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/458261?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=pharmacy&offset=80&rpp=80&pos=106> [Accessed 14 July 2020].
Metmuseum.org. 2020. Pharmacy Jar, Met Museum. [online] Available at: <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/201663?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=pharmacy&offset=0&rpp=80&pos=54> [Accessed 14 July 2020].
Wexler Gallery, 2020. Roberto Lugo Ceramics. [image] Available at: <https://www.wexlergallery.com/roberto-lugo/> [Accessed 28 July 2020].
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Tuna Kush Strain Review and Growing Tips
Tuna Kush strain is a British Columbian trophy strain that is popular in the medicinal field. It is an Indica dominant strain that is known to be the brother of Hindu Kush. To preserve the freshness of this strain, it is sealed in a can with a user-friendly pop-top lid so that you can bring it anywhere. It is sealed with aluminum that is odorless and can create an airtight environment where humidity is well controlled. It is known to be “the gas” because of its extremely strong aroma.
Characteristics
This strain has been notoriously popular for its potency and high THC content as influenced by its Indica-dominant characteristics. Tuna Kush characteristics are distinct from other strains because of their appearance, smell, and flavor. It is across from Herijuana and Lamb’s Bread. Placing it in a can is one of the most effective ways of storing this strain in a discrete way because of its pungent smell indicating its potency. This is a nighttime strain because of its effects that are relaxing and it can give a body high.
Appearance, Taste, and Aroma
This strain has dense buds with trichomes that are covered in sticky crystal-hairs. Its buds are covered in completely green color with complimentary leaves in purple hues. This Tuna strain is characterized to have strong flavors and aroma like a gas-like tone with the sweetness of intermixed fruits indicating its potency. Even though this strain has buds that are small dense nuggets, no one would belittle this strain because it is extremely potent.
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