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Land Acknowledgement (Version 1.0)

Where I’m writing from today in so-called St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada is traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Wendat and Chonnonton peoples.

August 7, 2023

Land Acknowledgement, Niagara, Ontario, St. Catharines, Whiteness
Thinking Beyond Elections: A Review of Zoe Baker’s Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States

Hark! Elections darken the fragile horizon. At least here in CanMerica they do. A few months ago I’d begun to descend into that cold fire of anxiety that curdles my flesh and transforms me into a being of the purest ranker and dyspepsia. My thoughts plummeted inwards as the word I was cradling in my…

November 3, 2024

Activism, Anarchism, Book Review, CanPoli, ClimateChange, Communism, Elections, History, Mental Health, PoliticalEconomy, Politics, Revoloution, USPoli, ZoeBaker
Fuck “Sustainable Development Goals,” have y’all ever heard of Communism?: Reviewing Kōhei Saitō’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

It’s hard to overstate the significance of a degrowth COMMUNIST MANIFESTO selling so many copies in Japan alone and the ensuing pseudo-celebrity of it’s author, though of course as many are quick to remark, purchasing a book and agreeing with its contents, let alone enacting it, are not quite the same thing. Nonetheless, the left…

October 10, 2024

Activism, Anarchism, Book Review, ClimateChange, Communism, Degrowth, DegrowthCommunism, Mental Health, PoliticalEconomy, Revoloution
Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): Reintegration and Burnout

Hello, It’s been a long time. Sorry about that. While I lived in Aarhus (from August 2017 → June 2018), I wrote the most songs I’ve ever written. At the end of my time there, my partner and I did some travelling. I had neither a guitar nor time to make music. When I eventually…

August 15, 2019

brock, burnout, home, Mental Health, reintegration, school, Stress, travel
Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): Experiencing Time and Home Abroad

The experience of students abroad is a peculiar one. As young adults, I think we have the desire, or I do anyway, to set up our lives permanently, but of course, everything has a half-life when you’re away like this (and in general). For much of the beginning of this year, I thought about what…

September 6, 2018

Aarhus, Abroad, Canada, Denmark, Exchange, Exploring, Friends, home, Niagara, Thoughts, Time, travel, Travel Writing
Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020) : March Travels Part 2: Rome

Welcome, to the second and final late piece on my stint of March travelling with my parents. If you haven’t read the first check it out here, and then come back to this one. Or, if you are just so rebellious, carry on and let your hardened rebel soul influence me and my complacent peers.…

August 16, 2018

Ancient, Europe, Exchange, Exploring, Family, Italy, Rome, Ruins, travel, Travel Writing, Warm
Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): March Travels Part 1: Stockholm

View fullsize Selfie of the three of us! I have been travelling again, and this is the best I could come up with for an opening sentence. I think I caught a cold or something on a plane and as such am a baby and am going to blame that sentence, and this one, on…

May 27, 2018

Club, Coolness, Exchange, Family, Flying, Old, Palace, Scandinavia, Stockholm, Sweden, travel, Travel Writing, Uncool
Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): The Emotional Toll of Climate Change

Trigger warning: suicide, mental illness. I have been writing and rewriting this entry for months, but in light of David S. Buckel’s self-immolation in protest of fossil fuels on Saturday, I thought I’d better post it now (New York Daily News; “Prominent Lawyer in Fight for Gay Rights Dies” and “He Called Out Sick, Then Apologized for…

April 18, 2018

Activism, ClimateChange, David S Buckel, Death, Emotion, Emotional Labour, Enviroment, Enviromentalism, GlobalWarming, GlobalWeirding, Grassroots, Green, Grief, Legacy, Mental Health, Mental Illness, New York, NYC, Protest, Social Justice, Stress, Suicide, WarmReguards
Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): Copenhagen

Travel writing* seems to have many of the same hangups as autobiographical writing and then some. The key element here, I think, is that good travel writing is a somewhat introspective pursuit since, saying anything of significance about a place one visits for a short period of time may be an empty gesture, and the…

March 16, 2018

Art, Autobiographical Writing, Bombay Beach, California, Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark, East Jesus, Exchange, Exploring, Friends, Galleries, Memory, museums, New Experiences, Nørrebro, Salton Sea, travel, Travel Writing
Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): I Have Not Disappeared

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. I have not disappeared, I am still right here in Aarhus. It’s hard to know if one should apologise for not updating a blog like this in a timely fashion for a number of reasons. The primary of these being that this is my blog, and to be honest,…

February 3, 2018

Aarhus, Beach, Christmas, Copenhagen, Denmark, Holiday, Long-Distance, Love, Meat, Meta, NorthSea, Relationship, Romance, travel, Vegetarianism, Water, Xmas