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
Posts about Serious Stuff
Serious opinions on serious topics from (mostly) serious people.
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
Creating Art Experiences in a Plague World — We Can Do This
This past week I have attended a virtual quiz show, a virtual tarot reading, a virtual Big Art Event, and ...Read More
Trapped in The Multiverse — What Should a Digital Burning Man Be?
The theme of “Multiverse” has, I think, been changed by the pandemic. Before, the Multiverse was something we aspired to ...Read More
Have We Been Training for This?
There are so many survival skills from taking part in the "Burning Man Immersion Learning Program" (a.k.a going to Black ...Read More
Theme Camp Isolation Experiments: Week One
Last week I wrote about the way in which we can carry Burning Man culture forward in a time of ...Read More
Resilience Is Our Middle Name
The coronavirus outbreak is unlike anything any of us have experienced in our lifetimes, but in a way, Burners seem ...Read More
Ties That Bind, Ties That Burn: Burning Man in the Age of Coronavirus
Like you, we’ve been watching with alarm and growing dread as the coronavirus has spread around the globe. And this ...Read More
Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Ed Fletcher and the Good Medicine of Burning Man
Ed Fletcher is a filmmaker, journalist, and the president of Sacramento Valley Spark, a nonprofit organization started in 2012 that ...Read More