Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa
@riwaasa.bsky.social
Pianist. 🎹🔥 Sansei 🔻三世クィル
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A heron's antidote to fear of death www.themarginalian.org/2024/12/06/h...
A Heron’s Antidote to Fear of Death
They didn’t imagine it, the dying dinosaurs, that they would grow wings and become birds, become the laboratory in which evolution invented dreams and the cathedral in which it invented faith…
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August 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A heron's antidote to fear of death www.themarginalian.org/2024/12/06/h...
“The most anti capitalist protest is to care for one another and to care for oneself…To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice a community of support.—Johanna Hedva, Sick Woman Theory
May 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“The most anti capitalist protest is to care for one another and to care for oneself…To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice a community of support.—Johanna Hedva, Sick Woman Theory
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Mary Oliver's antidote to melancholy www.themarginalian.org/2020/09/18/i...
“I Go Down to the Shore”: Natascha McElhone Reads Mary Oliver’s Spare, Splendid Antidote to Melancholy and Personal Misery
Consolation for the waves of sorry from the waves of the sea.
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May 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Mary Oliver's antidote to melancholy www.themarginalian.org/2020/09/18/i...
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How should you live your life – I'll take Marie Howe's spare, stunning poem "The Maples" over all the world's philosophy for an answer
How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”
“Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus wrote in one of the most sobering opening pages in literature.…
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May 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
How should you live your life – I'll take Marie Howe's spare, stunning poem "The Maples" over all the world's philosophy for an answer
We can all learn from this high school kid.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We can all learn from this high school kid.
“how do we make work that breaks through these habits, this way of consuming culture that leaves us untouched, where we don’t become vulnerable, don’t risk being changed by the experience?”
How to Kidnap an Audience: On breaking the spell of our training as consumers
People get broken all the time, there’s no art in that, but there is an art in making spaces where we can be broken open with a chance of healing.
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May 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“how do we make work that breaks through these habits, this way of consuming culture that leaves us untouched, where we don’t become vulnerable, don’t risk being changed by the experience?”
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A stunning love poem to life at the horizon of death from Nobel laureate Louise Glück, who would have been 82 today www.themarginalian.org/2020/10/11/l...
Nobel Laureate Louise Glück’s Love Poem to Life at the Horizon of Death
A subtle, stunning serenade to the lifelong hunger for self-love and self-forgiveness.
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April 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A stunning love poem to life at the horizon of death from Nobel laureate Louise Glück, who would have been 82 today www.themarginalian.org/2020/10/11/l...
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The disabled aren't in the poem either, and that's equally telling.
First they came for the queers, and you didn't know it because we're not in the poem
April 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The disabled aren't in the poem either, and that's equally telling.
““If you intensify & complete your subjective emotions, visions, you see their relation to others’ emotions. It is not a question of choosing between them, one at the cost of another, but a matter of completion, of inclusion, an encompassing, unifying, & integrating which makes maturity.”—Anais Nin
Alain de Botton on existential maturity and what emotional intelligence really means www.themarginalian.org/2019/11/25/t...
Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Really Means
“The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning othe…
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April 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
““If you intensify & complete your subjective emotions, visions, you see their relation to others’ emotions. It is not a question of choosing between them, one at the cost of another, but a matter of completion, of inclusion, an encompassing, unifying, & integrating which makes maturity.”—Anais Nin
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has documented historic ties to Rebel News owner Ezra Levant, the media personality at the epicentre of a controversy that has engulfed Canada's Leaders' Debates Commission. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Rebel News owner Ezra Levant was 'mentor' to Poilievre, says author | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has historic ties to Rebel News owner Ezra Levant, the right-wing media personality at the epicentre of a controversy that has engulfed Canada's Leaders' Debates C...
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April 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has documented historic ties to Rebel News owner Ezra Levant, the media personality at the epicentre of a controversy that has engulfed Canada's Leaders' Debates Commission. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
“We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more.” —Albert Camus
April 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more.” —Albert Camus
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"Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil."
Such a moving read: www.themarginalian.org/2021/04/23/g...
Such a moving read: www.themarginalian.org/2021/04/23/g...
Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise
“Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil.”
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April 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil."
Such a moving read: www.themarginalian.org/2021/04/23/g...
Such a moving read: www.themarginalian.org/2021/04/23/g...
“Disguise it to yourself as you will, the majority does want a dictator… A big mass likes to be shoved as a whole because it feels it moves and they cannot possibly feel that they move themselves as little masses can, there you are, like it or not there we are.”
(Gertrude Stein 1937)
(Gertrude Stein 1937)
April 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“Disguise it to yourself as you will, the majority does want a dictator… A big mass likes to be shoved as a whole because it feels it moves and they cannot possibly feel that they move themselves as little masses can, there you are, like it or not there we are.”
(Gertrude Stein 1937)
(Gertrude Stein 1937)
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This one’s for the penguins.
April 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This one’s for the penguins.
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speak beauty! notice what lives alongside the misery.
March 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
speak beauty! notice what lives alongside the misery.
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Our #zoomusicology #animalwelfare paper "Playing music to animals," co-authored by Pralle Kriengwatana, @amsouth.bsky.social, Martin Ullrich, @ruedinager.bsky.social and me is now open access. This has been such a great team to work with & fun paper to write!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Playing music to animals: an interdisciplinary approach to improving our understanding of animals' responses to music
Humans have profoundly changed the global soundscape. Studying how nonhuman animals respond to music can contribute to a better understanding of the e…
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February 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Our #zoomusicology #animalwelfare paper "Playing music to animals," co-authored by Pralle Kriengwatana, @amsouth.bsky.social, Martin Ullrich, @ruedinager.bsky.social and me is now open access. This has been such a great team to work with & fun paper to write!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Everything we have fought for can be taken away at any moment" —SD Holman.
Watching this again - and it's more poignant than ever.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuUq...
Watching this again - and it's more poignant than ever.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuUq...
SD Holman: Trailblazer
YouTube video by ReelYouth
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March 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"Everything we have fought for can be taken away at any moment" —SD Holman.
Watching this again - and it's more poignant than ever.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuUq...
Watching this again - and it's more poignant than ever.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuUq...
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Canada commits to sharing a percentage of Vancouver YVR Airport ground lease revenue with Musqueam #news 📰 #UNDRIP
Canada commits to sharing Vancouver (YVR) airport ground lease revenue with Musqueam to boost community development and economic growth
Today, Musqueam Chief Wayne Sparrow, alongside the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Econom...
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February 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Putting this here, in case anyone needs to brush up. Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Issues in the Care of Transgender Adolescents, by Catherine White Holman and Joshua M Goldberg.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Ethical, Legal, and Psychosocial Issues in Care of Transgender Adolescents
Complete care for transgender adolescents must be considered in the context of a holistic approach that includes comprehensive primary care as well as cultural, economic, psychosocial, sexual, an...
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February 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Putting this here, in case anyone needs to brush up. Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Issues in the Care of Transgender Adolescents, by Catherine White Holman and Joshua M Goldberg.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism.
A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer.
Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore.
They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.
A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer.
Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore.
They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.
February 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism.
A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer.
Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore.
They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.
A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer.
Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore.
They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.
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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.
February 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.
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My latest art crush: @maggienelson12.bsky.social
This is the smartest writing on art and power and sex I’ve come across. I’m eating this up.
My latest art crush: @maggienelson12.bsky.social
This is the smartest writing on art and power and sex I’ve come across. I’m eating this up.
On Freedom
So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonom...
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February 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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My latest art crush: @maggienelson12.bsky.social
This is the smartest writing on art and power and sex I’ve come across. I’m eating this up.
My latest art crush: @maggienelson12.bsky.social
This is the smartest writing on art and power and sex I’ve come across. I’m eating this up.
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Elee Kraljii Gardiner is Vancouver’s new poet laureate. ✍️✨ She and predecessor Fiona Tinwei Lam share their ideas and art.
Sample the Magic of Poetry Merged with Sound and Video | The Tyee
Elee Kraljii Gardiner is Vancouver’s new poet laureate. She and predecessor Fiona Tinwei Lam share their ideas and art.
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December 31, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Elee Kraljii Gardiner is Vancouver’s new poet laureate. ✍️✨ She and predecessor Fiona Tinwei Lam share their ideas and art.
Found this beautiful compendium on trans species relationships thanks to the folks at Amor Mundi. #interbeing
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Feral Atlas
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January 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Found this beautiful compendium on trans species relationships thanks to the folks at Amor Mundi. #interbeing
feralatlas.supdigital.org
feralatlas.supdigital.org