Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles When Is Gifting Not Gifting? April 5, 2024 By Caveat Magister Some of my least favorite experiences as a Burner are when we become victims of our own success. Often this happens when the “default world” culture takes something that we ...Read More
Serious Stuff The 10 Principles of Saving Burning Man September 30, 2020 By Sunshine Daydream The 10 Principles of Burning Man drive me to the inexorable conclusion that even with so many giant problems out ...Read More
Serious Stuff Burning Man Has Gone to Seed August 26, 2020 By Anselm Engle The event in the Black Rock Desert isn't happening this year, and the potential of it is spreading far and ...Read More
Community During COVID, Serious Stuff It’s Okay to Be Miserable About Virtual Burning Man — But We Can Have a Cacophony Restoration August 25, 2020 By Caveat Magister Any other year for the past 30 years, crews would be out in the desert by now, building Black Rock ...Read More
Serious Stuff Media Mecca Musing From the Master of Flack July 15, 2020 By Dennis Hinkamp a.k.a. Flackmaster I know that millions of words have already been thrown like MOOPy glitter at the subject of Uncle Larry’s Family ...Read More
Serious Stuff My Experience as a Black Woman at Burning Man June 22, 2020 By Guest Post Tatiana Smith is a writer, product designer, full spectrum doula and activist living in Jersey City, New Jersey, with her ...Read More
Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles What the Fuck Do We Do Now? June 19, 2020 By Caveat Magister The part of Burning Man culture represented by Burners Without Borders is having no trouble knowing what to do in ...Read More
Serious Stuff A Letter to the Burning Man Community from a Black Man June 18, 2020 By Guest Post Rob Smith, aka Black Rock Smitty, is a filmmaker from New York. He shared this perspective on social media and ...Read More
Serious Stuff Gatekeeping at Black Rock City and Beyond June 4, 2020 By JR "Nexus" Russ From Nexus: This piece was written before COVID-19 became a pandemic and the subsequent announcement about Black Rock City going ...Read More
Serious Stuff Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Black Lives Matter June 2, 2020 By Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley My earliest memory of the police killing an unarmed black man is from February 1999. Amadou Diallo, a young, highly ...Read More