The Man at 40
Forty years ago on the solstice, the first Burning Man event took place in San Francisco. Only a handful of people alive today remember that evening on Baker Beach, and ...Read More
It’s Okay to Be Miserable About Virtual Burning Man — But We Can Have a Cacophony Restoration
Any other year for the past 30 years, crews would be out in the desert by now, building Black Rock ...Read More
Media Mecca Musing From the Master of Flack
I know that millions of words have already been thrown like MOOPy glitter at the subject of Uncle Larry’s Family ...Read More
My Experience as a Black Woman at Burning Man
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
What the Fuck Do We Do Now?
The part of Burning Man culture represented by Burners Without Borders is having no trouble knowing what to do in ...Read More
A Letter to the Burning Man Community from a Black Man
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
Gatekeeping at Black Rock City and Beyond
From Nexus: This piece was written before COVID-19 became a pandemic and the subsequent announcement about Black Rock City going ...Read More
Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Black Lives Matter
My earliest memory of the police killing an unarmed black man is from February 1999. Amadou Diallo, a young, highly ...Read More
Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Yodassa Williams on Being a Black Femme Burner
Yodassa Williams is an accomplished storyteller and writer in the Bay Area. She is an alumna of The Ohio State ...Read More
Creating Burning Man Experiences Online — a Grand Unified Theory
Some of the best experiences I've had in quarantine have been art experiences, held over conference call software, which felt ...Read More