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History of Step

What is Stepping?

What is Step?

Stepping or step dancing is “a percussive dance in which the participant’s body is used to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand-claps,” writes the African American Registry.

Step has its origins in Africa, as dancing has been a large part of traditional African culture for centuries.

Calling Step a "bizarre silent dance without music" has to be one of the wilder antiblack racist descriptions I've ever heard of stepping lmao. Anyway if you see the video, it's step!!! They're stepping!! It's a Black American form of dance!!

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just saw a post from my old blog going around explaining how trauma works and that any event can be traumatic regardless of how “bad” it was due to a number of outside factors and someone commented “that would mean almost everyone alive has trauma though….”

correct! most people have survived or are surviving some form of trauma! trauma that has been so normalized as something many people “have” to experience that you don’t even consider your trauma “valid.” poverty is traumatic. health issues can be traumatic. family deaths can be traumatic. school bullying can be traumatic. minor car accidents. muggings even if you don’t get hurt.

and everyone deserves care. hope that helps! genuinely! ♥️

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How can chronic pain patients be “addicted to pain meds?” That’s like telling someone with a prosthetic that they’re addicted to their prosthetic. Or a cardio patient that they’re addicted to their pacemaker. Or a diabetic that they’re addicted to insulin. What is the thought process here?

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I have finished a pair of socks!

I like the pattern of the first sock more. I think the chaos suits the colors. But I like the second sock a bit more in general, because the cuff isn't as chaotic.

All in all it doesn't matter, because they are at home socks, and all the need to be is warm and comfy 😌

Thank you @roboticchibitan for making these socks possible with your hand dyed yarn 💛

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It's incredible how people have been protesting pants and skirts not having pockets but not a single peep is heard over the fact that skirts no longer have underskirts by default. Underskirts (or lining) was a thing when I was a child, no skirt would be made without lining, you didn't have to think and check if your whole ass is visible in a skirt because lining was a thing!!!! Now most skirts don't and it's simply because it's cheaper, fuck the fact that a customer doesn't want their panties shown in broad daylight, it saves a couple of cents on material.

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be like the dandelion!! unkillable! joyous!! inherently transsexual in ways others cannot fully understand!

on my redbubble!

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I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

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Made this for the Solarpunk Aesthetic Week server in a sudden creative fever, so I guess I'll post it here too hh

A relative of mine knows someone who teaches kids, so I'm gonna suggest this as an art project for them! The idea is that students could each make/decorate their own shelf, then put them together to form a hive, which could function as mini lockers in their classrooms. Then, by the end of the school year or something, they could either take their own little shelf home (or exchange them with their peers?), or recycle them into materials for the next class! Hopefully it'll teach them about pollinators too 🐝

Idk how doable this project is really, and its scary to imagine one of my silly designs could actually become something tangible irl. But even so, I'm still excited to try 🥰 (And if anyone else attempts this too, please let me know!!!)

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So a while ago I commissioned @thefruitloop-chan to make a Solarpunk poster for anyone to use! And this beautiful piece was made!

This is a blank for people to put text on, and here’s the two text ones that I put over

Anyone can print them and put them up and around town! Especially since it’s Solarpunk Action Week! Thank you again Squid for making this beautiful artwork! Let’s make a better future together!

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All these colors are showing four years of mending on one garment. The neon green on the right hand side is the most recent addition. I'm trying to be more consistent with using rounded darning instead of squares. It's supposed to be more sturdy and all these squares that developed pulls right at the corners do back up that claim.

You can also see the differences of technique and thread size that I have used over the years. All of this thread is from my scrap embroidery floss pile that is still going strong, if a bit smaller.

Having to darn something again after already doing it once can be annoying, but this is your reminder to think about how much extra life your mending has given a garment. I have kept this out of a landfill and in continuous use for four years and will continue to do so for as long as I can.

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Fewer than 60 multinationals are responsible for more than half of the world’s plastic pollution, with five responsible for a quarter of that, based on the findings 

The branded half of the plastic was the responsibility of just 56 fast-moving consumer goods multinational companies, and a quarter of that was from just five companies.

Altria [Kraft] and Philip Morris International made up 2% of the branded plastic litter found, Danone and Nestlé produced 3% of it, PepsiCo was responsible for 5% of the discarded packaging, and 11% of branded plastic waste could be traced to the Coca-Cola company.

“The industry likes to put the responsibility on the individual,” says the study’s author, Marcus Eriksen, a plastic pollution expert from The 5 Gyres Institute.

“But we’d like to point out that it’s the brands, it’s their choice for the kinds of packaging [they use] and for embracing this throwaway model of delivering their goods. That’s what’s causing the greatest abundance of trash.”

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An assortment of photos from mending the lining of one of my favorite bags that I originally thrifted over a decade ago. I did parachute stitch along all the tears, and then I put nylon patches over them to protect the stitches from the stuff I'll be putting in the bag.

It was difficult to sew the lining without catching the exterior shell of the bag, but I managed it. The only reason I used nylon to patch it was because it was the first bit of black fabric I found in the scrap bin.

I'm all for visible mending, but, in this case, I wanted the patches to blend into the lining and not distract me from the contents of the bag when I go looking for things.

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i made some papier mâché fishes

#fishies #!!!