Good Morning Relevant Friends! A proposal for a potential listing of $REL on Coinstore Exchange has been made for the Relevant DAO to vote on. You can find it on the following link on Tally. I am posting in all feeds to raise awareness of _...Read More_

>"Africans can not afford to get wrapped up, once again, in the theatrics of ‘culture wars’ being led by a reactionary right."

‘When the right deploys cringe to control trans assimilation, trans people cringe at each other.’ ‘Not transitioning is often an act of agency, and should be respected as such. Not transitioning is often derided as a form of cowardice; _...Read More_

"I left college in 1997 with a motto, Czesław Miłosz’s “What is unpronounced tends to nonexistence,” and a corollary, that pronouncing things might bring them into being. What I wanted to pronounce was politics. To me, that meant making all _...Read More_

Awesome read. Thanks for sharing. Pls make sure to include a caption when you post so we can see who posted!

'Carlo is concerned about his looks; it’s important to him how his ‘outer shell’ – his coat – appears. Decent clothes make it easier to earn money, easier to approach people on a more or less equal level. A clean and undamaged coat turns _...Read More_

<< From the Black Atlantic to the Black Mediterranean: seas of dispossession and unbelonging have constantly demonstrated the political, _...Read More_

>"Presuming the anti-vax movement doesn’t peter out, the only organisations with the social weight to counter it are the trade unions. This isn’t to disparage the important _...Read More_

"Mired in power relations and inequalities, fanfiction has long produced the most nuanced and productive engagements with questions of consent."

Another knockout piece from the Real Life contributors. “In conflating consumption with politics, the passion of fandom has been stoked into a reservoir of entitlement and, at its extremes, incipient violence.”

"TO INAUGURATE THE CHAOID GALLERY at the New York nonprofit Thread Waxing Space in 1999, curator and School of Visual Arts professor Warren Neidich organized “Conceptual Art as Neurobiological Practice,” convening a mix of phenomenological _...Read More_

>"Engineers at MIT and Imperial College London have developed a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a mix of bacteria and yeast similar to the “kombucha mother” _...Read More_

The Country Where Covid-19 is Becoming Covid-21

I introduced my partner to the term “bodice ripper” last week. Oddly, as a straight male, he’d never heard it but the rise of Bridgerton (before the whole, attempted coup thing) finally gave him a reason to learn it.

"Fandoms have a dark side. Cancel culture is everywhere & many people don't understand what cancelling someone really means anymore."