DC music folks: TONIGHT I'll be playing with @dunia & a mind-bendingly good supergroup of "world" musicians at Bossa DC in Adams Morgan. Please come check us out!
https://bossadc.com/events/global-interstellar-groove/
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Global Interstellar Groove – Bossa Bistro + Lounge | 2463 18th Streeet, NW, Washington, DC
Don't miss this evening featuring three amazing bands: Dunia and Aram, Artsouca, and The Tributary Project. Collaborations of music from around the globe and beyond! Patrons, please note that proof of vaccination is required for entry.
Fyi, while in the midst of 11,000 layoffs, Meta produced its second Creator Week in LA, Sao Paolo, Bali, London and Delhi, launched a slew of new creator monetization tools, published the Creator Economy Report and Creator's Guide to Growth, and announced Creators for Tomorrow. I mean...
Thinking about how meaningless age-based categories are like Gen x and millennial. We were print , radio, then Tv. Analogue, digital, then social. Now we are platform generations from YouTube to TikTok. If you understand these events as the rupture and dissolution of the Twitter generation, it hits harder. Like watching your favorite playground get paved over. Your beloved series come to an end. Your favorite friend move away. Grief is grief. Even when it’s digital.
Just pointing out the exquisite privilege to be platform and creator scholars at this moment. Yes, it's highly problematic (if deeply distressing for those like me who grieve the loss of networks...and, as many are highlighting here, remains deeply abusive and precarious spaces). But we have been afforded the tools to bear witness to and critically understand this transformative moment in global culture... and perhaps even influence where it goes.
For those who may wonder why I celebrate social media, especially creators harnessing these platforms to do culture work.
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THE AIDS MEMORIAL on Instagram: "— 30 years!!! Three decades since Harry Brian “Uncle Hirsch” Binder left us … along with an entire generation of beautiful, loving, brilliant people who’s lives had barely started.
Three decades for so many of us left behind, struggling to find ways to heal and move forward, if always aware that the heart is missing a beat, the world a bit less colorful, our joy bittersweet.
30 years wondering what might have happened? How might our lives been different? Would he be proud of who we’ve become?
There’s is so little certainty but of this I am sure. Just as he willed himself to stay alive long enough to witness the end of the Reagan era, he would be thrilled to witness the end of Trump’s, if anxious about what follows.
Much like the enormous shadow left in his wake, he would have made an indelible impression on the lives of everyone he met. He would have devoted himself to his family, his friends, and his community, as these were one and the same and everlasting sources of comfort and joy.
And he would have dedicated himself to ensure that, in the words of Kushner’s brilliant Prior Walter, “We won’t die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.”
Bye again, my fabulous creature. As I promised you at our commitment ceremony in 1990, I never forgot you. None of us did. — by David Craig #whatisrememberedlives"
THE AIDS MEMORIAL shared a post on Instagram: "— 30 years!!! Three decades since Harry Brian “Uncle Hirsch” Binder left us … along with an entire generation of beautiful, loving, brilliant people who’s lives had barely started.
Three decades for so many of us left behind, struggling to find ways to heal and move forward, if always aware that the heart is missing a beat, the world a bit less colorful, our joy bittersweet.
30 years wondering what might have happened? How might our lives been different? Would he be proud of who we’ve become?
There’s is so little certainty but of this I am sure. Just as he willed himself to stay alive long enough to witness the end of the Reagan era, he would be thrilled to witness the end of Trump’s, if anxious about what follows.
Much like the enormous shadow left in his wake, he would have made an indelible impression on the lives of everyone he met. He would have devoted himself to his family, his friends, and his community, as these were one and the same and everlasting sources of comfort and joy.
And he would have dedicated himself to ensure that, in the words of Kushner’s brilliant Prior Walter, “We won’t die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.”
Bye again, my fabulous creature. As I promised you at our commitment ceremony in 1990, I never forgot you. None of us did. — by David Craig #whatisrememberedlives". Follow their account to see 10461 posts.
InstagramAs an introvert who struggles with relationships (that’s for my therapist), I’ve found social media to be a respite. The Goldilocks of intimacy. Just close enough. And parceled out based on my cartesian digital self (Fb for fun, Twitter for thought, IG for passions, Lin for work). For that reason, leaving Twitter is proving harder than I imagined. Also I’m really old and old people grow weary of repeating life patterns over and over. In the words of Twitter, don’t @ me.
anyone here? hello? feels so lonely. 😂