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CStreet
I explore the intersections of Humanity, Technology & the Mystical. I'm a founding member of JournoDAO, a community builder & docu photog.
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GenZ, We Failed You.
January 25th, 2023
Our intention was to protect you from the emotional turmoils, traumas and uncertainties of our world. But instead, we offered you as sacrificial lambs to the Silicon Valley overlords playing God with technology and destroying your sense of self, your mental health and your communities.
Contemplative Community Building
October 10th, 2022
I returned to school in 2021 to create a deep and specialized skillset to navigate the coming chaos we are all facing. Through wisdom traditions, in my case Tantra Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism, I am cultivating the necessary contemplative trainings needed to process an unstable reality with a sense of grounding and with some (and on certain days most) of my mental health intact. I had no clear vision of how I would deploy these skills to help my fellow humans do the same, but I knew I’d find a few answers along my academic journey.
The Duality of Now
September 21st, 2022
Navigating our modern reality requires a skill-set we, as a collective, are not truly equipped to deploy in such pressing times. Holding space for both the utter destruction of our planet, our ecosystems and our social fabrics and also leaving space for the simple beauty of the natural world that surrounds us and the fundamental goodness of humanity. Such a duality is not something our educational systems teach, nor does the dominate religious culture here in the West. But if we are to truly survive the reality barreling down at us with a sliver of sanity intact, we must embrace this duality and create the space in our lives for both the beauty and the chaos.
The Lotus of Dread
September 1st, 2022
Last week I returned to my spiritual and academic community nestled at the foothills of the Rockies in Colorado. Returning to my people after an intense summer in the South was beyond a relief. All summer I was surrounded by the perpetual iconography of separation, violence and racism and while I grew up in the South, I’ve never experienced such energetic volatility at scale. And I’ve documented post conflict countries in the midst of collapse and under occupation. I’ve witnessed and experienced intensity for a living, but it pales in comparison to what’s happening in this country, and around the globe, right now.
Supporting Impact DAOs & Public Goods through Art
July 22nd, 2022
I launched the Unraveling Collection ($UNRAVEL) on Foundation in early July of 2022 as a means to fund-raise so I could cover traveling to DC to document the Women’s March event on July 9th. While no NFTs sold before the event, I’d created a collection that I could leverage to actively use my skills to fight for my own rights and those of the collective. I began exploring this concept of deploying my NFTs as tools to raise funds for DAOs in late 2021 and now the framework was finally in place.
Unraveling: Rage & Action Photo Essay
July 22nd, 2022
On July 9th, 2022, I traveled to Washington D.C. to document the Women’s March Summer of Rage event. I had no agenda. I was simply filled with rage and needed to document and bear witness to the collective action of my fellow women and allies as everyone screamed into the void. I decided to publish a photo essay of the day’s events and give both my observations and personal opinions of what I witnessed. If you’d like to read a deeper essay on the day, please visit my previous article here.
Unraveling: Supporting Rage & Amplifying Action
July 12th, 2022
On July 9th, thousands of women, female-identifying people and male allies gathered in Washington, D.C. to hold space and be heard. We gathered to voice and direct our rage at the seat of our government, the one building we were told was the sacred seat of power our entire lives. The very House that has failed to protect the women, the marginalized, the poor and the suffering of this land year after year. The very House that we were brought up to believe was the apex of power in this world. The very House that we look to when the dark forces of the world turn on our citizens and threaten our liberty. The very House, that for many years now, has failed to keep us safe, failed to keep us supported and failed to recognize our right to exist.
Waking Up In a Post Roe World
June 25th, 2022
For years, we’ve known of the attempt to roll back the clock on rights for anyone not male and white in this country. The strategy used by a radical, far-right political machine was not, nor has it ever been private. All laid bare for those with open eyes to see, process and watch in horror as it unfolds. For four decades.
Living in Perpetual Violence
June 6th, 2022
I live in a country completely engrossed in violence. I’m blessed enough to not have violence in my personal environment, but every time I leave the house, I anticipate that I could enter any plethora of violent scenarios.