Poems & Whiskey is the project of Michael C. It's a weird and rambly talk show that's usually pretty funny. Enough that the Spotify powers that be labeled this show 'comedy'. Now whether that means I'm funny or that I'm a joke, well...
In this thing, I talk to all sorts of creative types across all levels of skill and exposure. We sit and chat about what the hell we think we're doing and have drink (or two).
Pull up a chair and join us, friend.
Cheers y'all!
Updates every other Wednesday or so.
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Poems & Whiskey is the project of Michael C. It's a weird and rambly talk show that's usually pretty funny. Enough that the Spotify powers that be labeled this show 'comedy'. Now whether that means I'm funny or that I'm a joke, well...
In this thing, I talk to all sorts of creative types across all levels of skill and exposure. We sit and chat about what the hell we think we're doing and have drink (or two).
Pull up a chair and join us, friend.
Cheers y'all!
Updates every other Wednesday or so.
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🎃🎃Happy Halloween Y'all! 🎃🎃
In my truly horrifying tradition, minimal editing was done to this. Chilling, I know! Elisheva, Kimberly, and I read some tarot then read some poems and stories.
Stay well, keep safe!
I read from Scary Stories for Sleep-overs by R.C. Welch and use The Wildwood Tarot
Good people doing good things --->
Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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Like a dead bird, inspiration will find you. Omen or gift, pick it up! Nothing is promised. Do it anyhow. At soul's midnight, it sings like a match.
Mentions:
Tales from the Crypt
E.R.
Candy Man
Naked Cat Lit (pssst lots of their stuff went to Circus Collective Lit)
Good people doing good things --->
Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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I don't really like traditional summaries, clearly. lol Coming to the close of s3 is something alright. Joaquin Fernandez and I do the art talk, as per. We've got; art as expression of free will, play as an intentional practice, ease not equating legitimacy, and of course, the death of happily ever after. You know, for fun! So it goes!
We are remade when we create and again in witness, doors opening, and opening into endless rooms.
Cheers y'all!
From Joaquin:
In May of 2018, my friend Lantz Arroyo and the good people at Radix Media put together a book and they were kind enough to let me help them out. It was one of the highlights of my creative life.
AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss & Grief (and here's the book at Thrift Books since it is out of print)
Mentions:
Carmen Maria Machado :Her Body and Other Parties
Gabriel García Márquez: Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Louis Sachar: Holes and Wayside School
Slaughterhouse V
Good people doing good things --->
Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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Hall of Mirrors by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
(This episode is dedicated to Michelle. You like voices? I can give you voices. Enjoy!)
Foltz and Carney are flatfoots working the dragnet on some missing rich widows and find something far stranger than they bargained for in a suspected multiple homicide.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum and Library The Website™️
and then there's me...sorry bit of a let down after Kurt but hey...
The bird is a red-winged blackbird and I snagged the call here
Good people doing good things --->
Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
***Third Wednesdays with Kurt pod cover is based on Carin Goldberg's stunning designs, in particular my own cover of Slaughterhouse-Five by Dell.
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Meaning and purpose of what's made is often only focused in the rearview as you're leaving it behind. You only have to let the dark monster of creation long for what's bright. Sometimes, brightness reaches back.
Mentions:
Elizabeth Bishop
Mathew Rohrer
Rosemary Garland Thompson
Alison Kafer
Albert Camus
Lisa Olstein
Ethel Cain
Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Adventure Time
Midnight Gospel
🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️
Good people doing good things --->
Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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What a goddamn gift it is. That we get to make things over and over again. That we get to create ourselves.
What are you waiting for? Make something! No one can stop you, my dear Peeps.
Mentions:
Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw
🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️
Good people doing good things --->
Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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Deer in the Works by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
David Potter is the proud father of now, two sets of twins. A big, beautiful family! It's wonderful but...what about ten years from now? Can he continue to provide on a Newspaper Man's income? How secure is it, really? And everyone knows the Works, hiring again, will be around for a long, long time...
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum and Library The Website™️
and then there's me...sorry bit of a let down after Kurt but hey...
The bird is a red-winged blackbird and I snagged the call here
Good people doing good things --->
Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
***Third Wednesdays with Kurt pod cover is based on Carin Goldberg's stunning designs, in particular my own cover of Slaughterhouse-Five by Dell.
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So you get to your goal...and then what? What makes the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves more than a re-enactment? Where we put our attention there we are, with whatever worth we give it. Quoting Hamlet here would be silly when there's a whole show to play.
Cheers!
Kira Cordova's links and stuff
Mentions:
Misha Collins: Some Thing I Still Can't Tell You
Chuck Tingle
Suzanne McConnell & Kurt Vonnegut: Pity the Reader
Janet Daily
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Paul B. Preciado
Martin Shaw
🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️
Good people doing good things --->
Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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Creativity is part of the point. It's one of the most incredible ways we have to intentionally seek connection. It belongs to all of us, and no one can stop you, so Fuck It, we ball!
(It's my only drum so I'm gonna beat it!)
Mentions:
🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️
Good people doing good things --->
Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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To be witnessed, revealed, if even only to ourselves is why we're all muddling around in this mess. Art is to be seen, for the circuit to complete it requires engagement. Including laughter. Lean into the cringe and be free babies! To everything there is a season, turn, turn, turn etc. You know the song.
Three cheers for Chrissy Stegman!
Mentions:
Black Square by Kazimir Malevich
🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️
Good people doing good things --->
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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To have something better, we have to dream it first. Whatever form it takes, you are allowed to create for yourself, for the joy and discovery it brings.
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them...If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people. - Ursula K. Le Guin: The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️
Mentions:
Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land
University Press of Kentucky
Good people doing good things --->
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
*Episode contains themes of gun violence,*
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal
before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter
than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was
stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the
211th, 212th, and 213 th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing
vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum and Library The Website™️
and then there's me...sorry bit of a let down after Kurt but hey...
The bird is a red-winged blackbird and I snagged the call here
Good people doing good things --->
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
***Third Wednesdays with Kurt pod cover is based on Carin Goldberg's stunning designs, in particular my own cover of Slaughterhouse-Five by Dell.
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It is worth taking hold of your creativity as participant. You're part of the show and the making is the point. "...no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow." -- K.V. Jr.
Todd's Site & Insta & Blue Sky Buy The Ways We Vanish & Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance
🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️
Mentions:
Heady Topper Beer
Libre Office
Rohin Guha
Niina Pollari
David Wojciechowski
Taco Bell Quarterly
Ben Kline
Cynthia Moon
Amanda Aucter
Three Penny
Southern Review
Fairytale Review
Variant Lit
Postcard Lit
Good people doing good things --->
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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(cw: mentions of and poems read concerning sexual violence. take care y'all.)
Let's see! *cracks knuckles* John and I talk community, and community, and community this time. We are part of a community; how are we showing up for it? We often ask what we're getting out of something but what are we putting in?
And a miracle on par with other well known phenomena, we actually talk about our work and process! I know! I'm just as surprised!
Cheers y'all!
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - K.V.Jr.
🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️
Mentions:
Good people doing good things --->
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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Everything was perfectly swell.
There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars.
All diseases were conquered. So was old age.
Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum and Library The Website™️
and then there's me...sorry bit of a let down after Kurt but hey...
The bird is a red-winged blackbird and I snagged the call here
Good people doing good things --->
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
***Third Wednesdays with Kurt pod cover is based on Carin Goldberg's stunning designs, in particular my own cover of Slaughterhouse-Five by Dell.
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To define self, one must first be able to have the breathing room to distinguish the forest from the trees. As the spaces around letters tell us how to read them and the negative space around art gives us context for an image, so can creation gifts us opportunity for expansion and clarity. Elisheva and I turn over every card in the deck and then make up a few of our own in the damn near 3 HOUR conversation and I wouldn't trade a damn second.
Cheers y'all!
Elisheva's Links I'm still here 🧡
🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️
Mentions:
Rene Magritte: La Blanc "The Blank Signature"
Submittable
American Radiance: Luisa Muradyan
In the Dream House: Carmen Maria Machado
Jesse Welles
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Fyodor Pavlov
Once Upon a Dyke is the smutty fairytale book I didn't say the title of lol
Cauldron Born: Kristoffer Hughes
The Enchanted Tarot
The Wilde Wood Tarot
Good people doing good things --->
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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Welcome back to Poems & Whiskey, babies! Didja miss me? I missed you. It's good to be back. Kissing you all! (Appropriately, of course.)
Charles K. Carter and I get rolling fast.
Breaking down boundaries is the name of game. Why do we insist on separating our heads from our bodies? The mind is not better than our animal selves and doesn't know more. We are consistently being told who we are, what we should be doing, and whom we should be doing it for. Fuck that. Growth happens when we expand and accept all parts of ourselves, as people and in community. Resist against those who preach division and fear. Content does not exist, there is only art and effort and there is no real failure in art. Lean into the discomfort, that is also home. This world is ours to make, and revise.
Season 3 is gonna kick so much ass.
Cheers y'all!
Mentions:
When the Body Says No : Gabor Mate
Willie Carver's P & W ep, Gay Poems for Red States
I'm still here and that lit mag I mentioned starting is now live! 🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️
Good people doing good things ---> Food Not Bombs
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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🚪👁️Welcome to the Hiatus Zone 👁️🚪
Must Be Enough
ep 1.5
I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. Headphones are recommended.
Where We Must Look for Help : Robert Bly from Eating the Honey of Words
There Will Come Soft Rains : Ray Bradbury from The Martian Chronicles
It's a Little Anxious to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water - piglet : Sam Sax from Pig
*in the second to last line, I changed one word for the sake of medium. Sam Sax ordinally wrote "...that you are reading this...". I changed "reading" to "hearing".
Thank you for visiting. The Door is now closed until next Hiatus, but you can still find me if you say your right words.
Good people doing good things ---> Food Not Bombs
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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So we meet again! Is anyone else as surprised as I am? All right. Hi, babies. This is Michael, and this whole thing is my fault. If you found Poems & Whiskey during the hiatus, things are about to change. Long form, rambling, mostly (?) sober conversations are back in about two weeks. I've got so many awesome artists lined up. Oh, God. I'm almost as nervous as I was in season one.
I do have a couple of announcements.
Third Wednesdays with Kurt will now be a regular segment. Third Wednesdays with Kurt are where I read something of Kurt Vonnegut's Dramatically. Because I want to, because I love him. And everybody should hear, at least something of Kurt Vonnegut in their lives. The show will still be bimonthly, but every third episode will be that dramatic reading of something of Kurt's, likely not to exceed an hour. We'll see how it goes. So if that's your jam, please come and hang out with me. Kurt Vonnegut is amazing, and he will change your life.
Last announcement is, look at my cover art for this season! I'm so fucking proud of my album dupes for these upcoming seasons. Oh, look at my works! Behold! I have up to season five made so no one tell me what happens in the third act. Cool? Cool. We'll see if I can make it to season five.
I don't know if y'all remember, but when I started this whole thing, I was like, well, let's see if I can make it to. If I could do one year. If I do one year, I'll make it to three years. If I do three years. Let's see what I can do after that. Um, so, uh, here we are at three years. We'll see what happens, right? Okay, that's that's enough, that's enough, that's enough. I love you all. And I will see you in season three.
Good people doing good things ---> Food Not Bombs
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
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🚪👁️Welcome to the Hiatus Zone 👁️🚪
A Tender Blossom
ep 1.4
I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. Headphones are recommended.
(at about 6:62 in show, there's an awful sound, that I did on purpose, that lasts for less than a minute. My sincerest apologies to your ears.)
The Heavenly Body : Leslie J. Anderson from Take This to Space
Miss Temptation : Kurt Vonnegut from Welcome to the Monkey House
the elephants of Vietnam : Charles Bukowski from The Pleasures of the Damned
Thanks for visiting. The Door is still open if you would like to play in the THZ, just step through
Good people doing good things ---> Food Not Bombs
Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery
INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund
*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).
**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.