Opinion | Burning Man Journal

Meet Santa Zero, the Cacophonist (and Burner) Who Started SantaCon

December 20, 2022 By Kirsten Weisenburger

Burning Man culture is filled with secret instigators who show up time and time again to help make astonishing things happen. Our eyes may wander to the shiny humans who ...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

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Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Yodassa Williams on Being a Black Femme Burner

May 19, 2020 By Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley

Yodassa Williams is an accomplished storyteller and writer in the Bay Area. She is an alumna of The Ohio State ...Read More

Community During COVID, Serious Stuff

Creating Burning Man Experiences Online — a Grand Unified Theory

May 4, 2020 By Caveat Magister

Some of the best experiences I've had in quarantine have been art experiences, held over conference call software, which felt ...Read More

Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

Creating Art Experiences in a Plague World — We Can Do This

April 17, 2020 By Caveat Magister

This past week I have attended a virtual quiz show, a virtual tarot reading, a virtual Big Art Event, and ...Read More

Community During COVID, Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

Trapped in The Multiverse — What Should a Digital Burning Man Be?

April 14, 2020 By Caveat Magister

The theme of “Multiverse” has, I think, been changed by the pandemic. Before, the Multiverse was something we aspired to ...Read More

Community During COVID, Serious Stuff

Have We Been Training for This?

April 2, 2020 By John "Halcyon" Styn

There are so many survival skills from taking part in the "Burning Man Immersion Learning Program" (a.k.a going to Black ...Read More

Community During COVID, Serious Stuff

Theme Camp Isolation Experiments: Week One

March 27, 2020 By Caveat Magister

Last week I wrote about the way in which we can carry Burning Man culture forward in a time of ...Read More

Community During COVID, Serious Stuff

Resilience Is Our Middle Name

March 25, 2020 By Mia Quagliarello and Kirsten Weisenburger

The coronavirus outbreak is unlike anything any of us have experienced in our lifetimes, but in a way, Burners seem ...Read More

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Ties That Bind, Ties That Burn: Burning Man in the Age of Coronavirus

March 18, 2020 By Marian Goodell

Like you, we’ve been watching with alarm and growing dread as the coronavirus has spread around the globe. And this ...Read More