some street rat with a coy smile

It weeps (Es weint) by Paul Klee, 1939

was just remembering this sketchbook page where i was drawing pokemon from memory. with guns

Can I be honest. I think the world may have had enough of American poets writing pieces about how it's weird to go about daily life while your government commits genocide abroad. I don't know if anyone needs to do another one of those

in all fairness it really is a bizarre/depressing/powerless feeling and it's not weird to explore that through art. But at some point it really just starts to feel like navel gazing. Like are these really the experiences and viewpoints we need to be centering right now

anyone wanna open a store or something?

my idea for this store is we have 3 big fridges for gatorade and i sell them at one cent cheaper than the 7-11 across the street. this is the biggest draw and i have banners outside proclaiming my gatorade is cheaper. i make no other renovations to the interior of the building.

other features include a couple of foldable tables and chairs, a box of jenga that’s missing pieces, and 37 national geographic magazines from the 1990s. all free to use at your leisure.

you can smoke in here, but only with the cigarettes i’ve bummed from strangers elsewhere and only using lighters i’ve found on the ground. inventory is extremely limited.

i do sell coffee for $2 a cup, but it’s just keurig pods. if you bring your own keurig pod, it’s a quarter.

there will be a rack of old t-shirts from my closet that i can’t wear anymore. these will be sold on a “name-your-price” basis, but if i can tell you’re rich, they’re $50 apiece.

i’ll be there in a lawn chair reading the odyssey or otherwise brushing up on my greek mythology narratives, but you can’t ask me about anything in the text because i won’t remember.

there will be a coffee can on the ground next to me with a note that reads “advice $5.” i will provide a disclaimer that i cannot attest to the quality of the advice or the level of my own intelligence but only after you put a fiver in the can. ask your question and follow the advice at your own peril.

on friday nights, there will be a cover charge of $10, and i will affix a disco ball to the ceiling with duct tape and play grouper’s seminal 2008 album dragging a dead deer up a hill from my phone.

posted hours are 2 pm to 12 am, but these are merely ceremonial. the store will be open whenever i feel like it.

bathroom is free to use for customer and non-customer alike.

i just did ~50 ugly drawings one dollar & these were some of my faves. but don’t worry there are some really ugly ones in there too

my least favorite uglies that i almost feel ashamed to send but MUST in the spirit of the assignment & all my requests (deaths head moth, yugioh, guinea pig, cat, fruit/bug, cobra on wheels with fire trail which i didn’t leave enough room for fire on)

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that'd be nice.

“Love Languages” are just common couples therapy techniques mangled and repackaged by an unqualified homophobe. Relationships generally need all 5 love languages to be fulfilled, which is to say, everybody needs to communicate with, spend time with, and do things for their partners, and that’s got nothing to do with any special way you communicate affection.

MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.

The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.

BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.

The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.

If you haven’t put together what all these things have in common yet, here’s the moral of the story: STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE PEOPLE. STOP TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE IN A GODDAMN BIOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. EUGENICS IS BAD, AND WILL ALWAYS BE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING IT.

Learning styles as well btw.

This was something we read about in my undergrad teacher prep program because it is such a prevalent myth, and it encourages people to think of people as having these psychologically and biologically essentialist, immutable traits-- that everyone can be sorted and categorized, that those categories tell you something about them (and it's therefore safe or even a good practice to make certain assumptions about them), and that those categories are predetermined and inflexible.

Even a less rigid/extreme belief in these ideas is harmful; teachers in particular waste a lot of time teaching some kids in the particular ways they've been determined to need, rather than just teaching in a variety of ways to all of their students, all of whom likely benefit from having all of those options available. And again, thinking of people as categorizable like this just encourages folks to make assumptions about one another.

art by LILAH i found laying around in the children's area of the bjork exhibit that was so awesome that i almost stole it and took it home with me but i didn't because i thought there was a slim possibility that if i left it there someone would be able to show it to bjork & if i were the subject of this drawing it would make me shriek with delight

you have to consciously unlearn racism and continue to watch for it because it will come out without realizing. because so much of society is structured around it. shrugging and going "i dont care" or "i dont know how else to say it" means you are okay with being racist and hurting other people with how much you dont give a shit about them.

I think if I heard I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas in the correct circumstances it could move me to tears. It's like the promise of a brighter future that never came to pass

a little girl came up to me when I was working on my mural & she said “did you color this?” and I said “yeah!” and she was like “wooow… I’ve never see a girl color before”

I don’t think that’s actually what she meant but I feel like a superhero. nevertheless she persisted. women in male-dominated fields (coloring)

girls can do anything actually, even color 🫵💪🫡

btw, my last day at the library is next Friday, so I have officially laid the last piece in here today! All that’s left is for me to seal it up

Because it is!

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