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Each morning, I wake before sunrise and open eyes that are no longer fully mine. There is crust towards the inner edges, and I gulp some water to wake them up, to bring me to the precipice of awakened being. When the world started falling apart more visibly (2020, for me), I slowly began a transformation into a woman that would be more fit for the new realities that would emerge, the dystopian landscape of our civilization's demise. In the beginning, I called her Towanda , a

The world is unfair. The world is discriminatory. The world is dangerous, and full of malice, and murder, and genocide. This, of course, isn't the whole story. Nevertheless, it is a big part of our current reality. In addition, It's likely that things will only continue to get worse, for all of us. The slim possibility of a sharp turn into a utopian society based on love and respect for one another, other species, and the planet we exist on is not something to plan for. We mu

We expected gold. Perhaps not gold, but some version of a capitalist's dream, a future where we would receive rewards for playing along with the status quo, a utopia that would somehow arise, despite the damage done to our planet and ourselves in the process; despite the early signs of the sheer impossibility of it all. Capitalism breeds denial, and the pursuit of wealth for wealth's sake has never served us in the end. And so the End is where we find ourselves now; possibly

"Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied." —Robert Boyce Yes, you can have Wikipedia in the palm of your hand, literally (no internet required). An app called Kiwix allows you to download an offline copy of Wikipedia (with or without images) to be used/stored on your smartphone, desktop computer, laptop, or tablet. This will allow you to access the full Wikipedia catalogue if the grid ever goes down or if the internet is no longer available for whatever reaso

Image "Addicted Android" by Scoutlover20 The surveillance state of 2025 depends not on spies, warrants, and courts of law, but on the willing participant who is addicted to giving all of their data away—via apps, social media, rewards programs, shopping records, endless accepted terms and conditions clauses, and the always-on, always-listening smartphones in their back pockets. A Thought Experiment Imagine it's the 90s. Tupac is on the radio. Your pants are baggy as hell and

Defining Anarchism While anarchists often rock a punk rock vibe, anarchism is more than a feeling. It’s not nihilism or chaos. David Graeber, anthropologist and one of the leading figures of Occupy Wall Street clarifies: "Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction, that they are against all forms of order and organization, or that they are crazed nihilists who just want to blow everything up. In reality, nothing could be furth

In spired by Gil Scott Heron's 1970 song, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". "The revolution that takes place in your head ? Nobody will ever see that." — Gil Scott Heron The revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be streamed, by a Harvey Weinstein dream team, pedophiles and rapists, sociopaths and misogynists, the revolution Will not be televised. You won't find the revolution hiding under phone screens, a swipe away, peddled out to you by greedy thugs

"W henever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." —Mark Twain Street art by Morley. We are living in a scary time —  a time when all we know is slipping away, bit by bit. Our knowledge itself is being compromised; we are trading brain cells for convenience because of the fear of silence, of boredom. Rather than making our brain functioning a priority, we are outsourcing. Outsourcing our tasks, our choices, our ability to think . AI, t

Anarchy graffiti by Banksy "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based of five thousand years of experience,...

by David Ramsey Advertisement for Camel cigarettes, 1946. Look, we’ve been here before. My grandpa smoked two packs a day for most of my memory of him. Everyone did. Doctors literally prescribed cigarettes for stress. They said it was good for you. Made you look cool. Helped you lose weight. Whatever. He felt fine until he didn’t. That’s exactly what’s happening with COVID right now, and nobody wants to hear it. People are catching this thing two, three times a year and actin

"Where does personality end and brain damage begin? " -Douglas Coupland " Phone Addiction " by Zephyo is licensed under CC BY NC 3.0 At...

"Non Conformist" by Leslie Oldaker, available at www.deviantart.com/lesley-oldaker/art. Licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0. Resisting the...

Art by Huleeb, this month's Featured Artist. “I have witnessed my garden become a tool for the education, the transformation of my...

Divide and Conquer: A Timeline Chicago, Illinois, 1968: An accidental double booking of a church’s main room by the Black Panther Party...

Editor's Note: With all respect to Jem Bendell, the use of AI as part of this interview was done at the request of the interviewee, and is not a reflection of the values of Tawanda Jazz or Dilate Magazine. While searching the web for ideas for increasing my own climate change resilience about a year ago, I came upon a video of Professor Jem Bendell discussing "Deep Adaptation", an idea that I hadn't heard of at that point. I had been struggling with how to react to our curr

Last night my partner and I were watching a documentary called Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo. Like many cult leaders,...