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 nod to the...

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 must plan for the...

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 not the end of...