What is your vision of the collective future? Where would you go from here? We spend, or have to spend, so much time in defense and struggle that we can forget to create a vision of the future we want. …

Tracing ancestral women’s work through the past and into future possibilities Prior to industrial manufacturing, textile creation was a time-consuming, necessary task because the only fabric in the world that comes pre-made is animal hide. What were your pre-industrial female ancestors doing in their off-time? They were weaving, weaving, weaving. …

Reflections on the pathways that have long connected humanity To the South of Rome lies an 1800-mile network of shepherds’ paths called i tratturi. I found out about it by following the dogs. By which I mean, researching the dogs who walked alongside Italic shepherds a millennia before the Romans…

The tenacious subtropical swamp environs of the Floridian peninsula have long played a key role in the region’s historical resistance to imperial, authoritarian and undemocratic rule. Florida, meaning Fiorita or The Flowered One, has dealt with many invaders, conflicts, resistances, rebellions, and challengers- At least from the moment Chicxulub, the…

Imperfect thoughts about the Left on Santa Barbara’s Day. The Left can go wrong. Indeed, it already has: Cuba, Romania, Soviet Union. This is a human story wrapped inside the culture of the Left. The Left being no better or worse in terms of its ideology, values, and beliefs than…

Happy Birthday to il mio paesano (my kin), Joe Cino. Born to Sicilian immigrants in 1931, Joe ran from Buffalo to NYC at age 16 with dreams and not much else. …

What This Contro-Colombo Learned by Listening to Instead of Fighting with Pro-Colombo Italians. About This Series Coming out of 2020, what struck me was the deep need to ​try to build understanding and bridges among people who are on differing sides of the culture war because if we’re not sincerely trying to understand…

About This Series Coming out of 2020, what struck me was the deep need to ​try to build understanding and bridges among people who are on differing sides of the culture war because if we’re not sincerely trying to understand why people on the other side aren’t budging and seeing how we can…

About This Series Coming out of 2020, what struck me was the deep need to ​try to build understanding and bridges among people who are on differing sides of the culture war because if we’re not sincerely trying to understand why people on the other side aren’t budging and seeing how we can…