Open Access book "Cooking Up Collectivity", with recipes on how to self-organize as a collective:

https://humdrumpress.com/cooking-up-collectivity

(edited by Katinka de Jonge, Simon Kentgens, Amy Gowen & me, published by HumDrumPress, Roodkapje Rotterdam, Willem de Kooning Academy & Hocus Bogus Publishing)

Contributions / recipes by:
De Onkruidenier, Doe Het Zelf Werkplaats, Droom.Iris, Ellie McGuinness, Garvan Corr, Iconoclasistas, Jatiwangi art Factory ( Indonesia ), KraakSpreekUur / Squatting Info Hour, Marloes de Vries, One Field Fallow, Papaya Kuir, Paul Smullenberg, Questions Collective, Reading Room Rotterdam, Roodkapje & Hamburger Community, SOUPSPOON Collective, Singing Club Rotterdam, Soyeon Lee, The Post Collective, Wan Ing Que (Ying) + essays by us three editors.

#collectivity #community #self-organization #cooking #art #communityart

launch & assembly/bookbinding of the book "Cooking up Collectivity", today at 20.30 at Roodkapje Rotterdam, Netherlands

Together with Katinka de Jong, Simon Kentgens and Amy Gowen, I am the editor of this book of reflections and recipes for how to build and maintain collective self-organized communities and infrastructures.

With text, image and recipe contributions by Papaya Kuir, One Field Fallow, Jatiwangi art Factory, Questions Collective, The Post Collective, De Onkruidenier, Soupspoon Collective, KraakSpreekUur Rotterdam, Doe Het Zelf Werkplaats, Iconoclasistas, Singing Club Rotterdam, Reading Room Rotterdam, Paul (s)Mullenberg, Marloes de Vries

https://roodkapje.org/event/2025-05-publication-launch-so-happy-together/

#commons #collectivity #diy #self-organization #cooking #food #art #arts #contemporaryart

„The Mayan Languages Digital Activism ​​(ADLM, for its initials in Spanish) is a program that promotes community digital activism projects in Mayan language-speaking communities, mainly in the states of Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. In 2024, the third cohort of this program has been selected and includes ten speakers of Mayan languages chosen for their community proposals that stood out.“

https://globalvoices.org/2024/09/04/meet-the-third-generation-of-mayan-languages-digital-activism-fellows/

#digitalactivism #language #collectivity

From "The World Is in Crisis and We're All Grieving," posted on Refinery29:

"I think they recognize that our grief holds power...because when we're numb, we're less connected to our desires and are less able to move towards them collectively. So when we think of it in a social justice context, the fact that racialized communities and those in racial justice movements more specifically, experience so much grief but are denied opportunities to process, it suddenly feels like a political tactic."

More at https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2024/09/11775844/collective-grief-world-crisis-finding-community

#Grief #Mourning #Covid19 #genocide #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #SocialJustice #Neoliberalism #palestine #pandemic #JusticeforPalestine #Grieving #Community #Collectivity #RacialJustice

"Collective Conditions is a worksession which experiments with the generative potential of #codes of #conduct, complaints procedures, bug reports and copyleft licenses. We understand these socio-technical #protocols as #artistic and #activist #media and are curious about the role they can play in the (different) imagination of complex collectivities.

By ’complex #collectivity’ we mean, for example, non-normative human #constellations, or collectives where participants with radically different needs, backgrounds and #agencies come together. ’Complex collectivity’ can be self-chosen, or be the result of structural forces such as laws, racism, technology, wars, austerity, queerphobia and ecological conditions.

[...]

The worksession is inspired by trans*feminist collective practices, anti-harassment and allyship-work, non-violent communication, score-making, #decolonial and #intersectional #activism, but also by ways of doing developed within Free Culture and Free, Libre and Open Source software. Collective Conditions focuses on a-polarizing methods, #affirmative habits that can stretch and reorient frameworks, that represent new vocabulary, gestures and forms of expression[...]"

http://constantvzw.org/site/Call-for-participants-Collective-Conditions.html