Bread, Roses, and Hormones Too! 🍞🌹💊

Create a shrine. You will need images of her spirit, rose hips and sage to burn as a cleansing offering, three maxed-out checks from New England donors, a DVD of SNL’s greatest 2010s hits, and the blood of any resident of Michigan.

Twice a day, when the moon is at its highest and lowest angle compared to your geographic location, you’ll need to spend at least one hour on meditative incantation. Learn how to conjugate “I am still with her” in Latin.

DO NOT consume the meat of lower beasts during the several weeks of this process. The flesh of wild elk is fine.

“The music fits quite nicely for this little guy”

Wanted to do a more gothic insp. magical girl. My main motif was a black/chocolate cosmos flower which then evolved into being inspired by the Santa Muerte myths in Mexico since they only grow there. 

The idea was that the role for Santa Muerte is passed down through generations. She protects, heals & guides souls to the afterlife. Her family runs a flower shop that’s next to a local cemetery.

Anyone interested in the ontological turn in anthropology; class-conscious radical ecology that is critical of anarcho-primitivism, anti-humanism, and nihilism; Bookchin’s social ecology; indigenous environmental knowledge; the co-opting of environmentalism by ecomodernism and “green capitalism”; and the incorporation of indigenous perspectives in academia and community organizing might enjoy reading some Brian Morris.

Morris, professor emeritus of anthropology at Goldsmiths, is an acolyte of Bookchin; he is an anarchist historian and ethnobiologist who works with indigenous environmental knowledge. He’s critical of individualism, egoism, nihilism, deep ecology, anti-civs, and an-prims. He’s fiery at times, and I don’t necessarily endorses everything he says. However, despite his criticisms of the spirituality in deep ecology and anti-civ discourse, he does specifically research indigenous cosmologies; so, he’s got some really well-informed and nuanced takes on nature religion and environmentalism. Morris, in critiquing the egoism of individualist anarchism and the anti-humanism of biocentric anarchism, advocates instead for an “ecological humanism.”

Morris - in historian mode - has authored some fine biographies of Kropotkin and Bakunin. I kind of liked his text The Anarchist Geographer: An Introduction to the Life of Peter Kropotkin (2012). Another good Morris text on the development of ecological thinking in anarchism is Pioneers of Ecological Humanism (2012), the title of which references Mumford, Dubos, and Bookchin; this text is available for free at Libcom dot org.

However, I like Morris’s writing most when he’s expounding on his own ecological perspective. You can find free Morris essays at The Anarchist Library’s site.