Taking My Silliness Seriously

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-Bio-

My name is HollyRose🫶🏻

27yo

I am the Joy Haver, because I want to remind myself and the world that Joy is why we fight. All liberation is for the purpose of Joy. So I have decided to hold space for that, while also holding space for liberatory practices.

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My original posts that I care about are mostly tagged #rose baker. It’s largely musings on anarchism and abolition.

I’m going to start tagging my posts where I discuss the American electoral politics. I understand why people might not want to read it and it’s taking up a lot of my thoughts and posts. So I’ll tag it #electoral politics from now on. If I miss something, lmk

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- I am a 27 year old adult. I say stuff that’s very mildly sexual. I talk and joke about my experience as a human being. The things I share are not explicit, in my view. You won’t see images of sex. You won’t feel advanced upon.

Make your own decisions

My nsfw blog is @sanctuary-of-the-anarcha if your an adult and wanna follow me there.

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Watch or read my beloved sermon, about ecological hope.

Good relations with hope, sermon
Good relations with hope, sermon
Google Docs

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Read my Speculative Fiction Essay about clothing.

Social Fabric; Clothing in a Free Society
HollyRose Baker Social Fabric; Clothing in a Free Society A Speculative Fiction Essay 11/3/2023 Author note: Thank you to the Srsly Wrong di
The Anarchist Library

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Peruse my Introduction To Ethical Nonmonogamy Slideshow

Basics of Ethical Non Monogamy
Basics of Ethical Non Monogamy Polyamory, Swinging, Open Relationships, and More! Created by HollyRose Baker, edited communally.
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I gave a speech at a vigil for Palestinian and Queer Martyrs, you can read or watch it here

Martyrs Vigil Speech
Vigil for Palestinian and Queer Martyrs Video link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pd-CYHA53fWKCPToAXUgGQfjGsuPhgHa/view?usp=drivesdk (If
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Watch or read my sermon about trans history and mutual aid

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BAortAnZMoQEdPa6WVUQDu95-VrYa9dP4KXZA0GcS9Y/edit?usp=sharing

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Send me stuff about prison abolition, folk music, leftist science fiction, and religious anarchism.

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I make anarchist prayer cards. Hit me up if you want one. They are super customizable and it’s by donation

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I run the Trans Artists For My Queer Heart playlist on Spotify. Feel free to submit songs for it. Limit of two songs per artist. Small artists who reach out get put on the top of the list. It had about 2000 followers. If you have a new release, let me know and I’ll spotlight it toward the top.

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Are you in or around Lower Alabama? Come to one of my plant walks, or hit me up for free plants. I mostly have native fruit and nut trees but I can give you lots of things.

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Having preferences and feedback and desires can all be great things. Going with the flow too much often means the people around you are pulling you along. Sometimes the water is still and you are simply choosing not to paddle while others are paddling harder to get you home.

There is a virtues in going with the flow as well, you can remind others when they are working harder than they need, and when there is an easier way.

But the point is that both the desire to change things and the desire to not change things/ not be a burden can be good, but both also can be maladaptive.

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we all hear about kudzu being introduced as "erosion control" in the South but I don't think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means

these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"

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It was Bad.

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Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.

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For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.

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A lot of the south too was covered in Canebreaks, basically bamboo forests like a lot of South Asia, I don't know the specifics of the ecology, but bamboo being a grass I assume is rhizomatic like other grasses and forms a big net of roots that prevent erosion. *I assume* (pleez ecologists weigh in)

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Yes, the destruction of Canebrakes was a direct cause of this erosion we see here. Canebrakes were destroyed, using slave labor, to make room for cotton plantations. You can read about it here.

Canebrakes built up incredibly rich, fertile soil and are amazing at preventing erosion. They form incredibly strong mats of rhizomes. And their roots are known to go 10 feet deep into the soil.

The erosion we see in these pictures was a result, very much directly, of the Canebrakes being destroyed.

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This is a case study in how violence against ecosystems goes so closely hand in hand with violence against people. The violence against the indigenous caretakers of the land, and the violence against the enslaved captives that were forced to clear the Rivercane and work the cotton fields that would degrade the soil into nothing.

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Wally Dion, born 1976, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Fabric Star Quilts.

Wally (Walter) Dion is a Canadian artist of Saulteaux ancestry living and working in Upstate New York. Working in a number of media including painting, drawing and sculpture.

Wally explains:

"The first fabric star quilt was made as part of a 2022 residency at Wanuskewin Park. It was my way of reflecting upon prairie tall grass and the reintroduction of bison into the Great Plaines. I wanted to make several transparent quilts and superimpose them; one in front another... a quilt for the microbiome, another for the bison, their manure & hooves, another for the summer fires that scorch the ground and a final quilt for the sweetgrass braid.

I was considering how all of these things worked together for thousands of years to create what is known as the 'prairie tall grass ecosystem'. A vast and fertile expanse of land stretching from the foothills of Alberta to the banks of the Mississippi. I wanted to highlight the invisibility of systems when everything is working well, as it should be.

I started with the green quilt because it is the colour of the sweet grass braid that is exchanged in ceremony and relationship building. I considered the nature and tradition of quilting; impoverished craftspeople using tiny scraps of fabric. I considered the act of offering fabric and adherence to tradition. I thought of a thousand tiny prayers and how that might look; invisible acts of respect and adherence to protocols spanning decades. My thoughts travelled across the land, imagining the trees and rocks collecting these prayers like a bush of cloth, or an etched boulders."

fabric quilts - Wally Dion
prairie tall grass quilts, Bonavista NL, 2023 bison quilt, 2023. 127 ¼ h x 106 ¼ w. fabric, copper pipe. fire quilt, 2023
wallydion.com