FYI #117
Creativity as resistance: An essay on making meaning, sustaining care, and building what comes next, by Kemi Ajisekola… Creativity won’t save us on its own. It doesn’t replace policy, organizing, or material change, but it does something just as essential. It prepares the ground. It gives people language and connection when those things are hardest to find. It helps us recognize one another. It makes different ways of living feel possible.
1610 Maggini Viola and Stefanie Farrands, via the ACO. Video of Farrands playing the viola (ABC News)
“Recover, Replant, Return”: Talking Nuclear History, Writing, and Food with Kate Brown, via Public Books
My Garden Used to be a Brownfield: How my neighbors transformed the toxic dump out back into a blooming garden, by Kate Brown
“You Just Do Language.” Lauren Groff on Craft, Reading, and Her New Collection, by Eric Olson, via LitHub
Director Clint Bentley on Adapting ‘Train Dreams’ for the Big Screen, via the New York Times The Book Review
Record 129 press members killed in 2025, via the Committee to Protect Journalists
Common Sense, by Mike Pepi … ‘Our biggest challenge remains that for obvious reasons capital tends to favor efficiency.’
Vision Machines: Art, technology and new ways of seeing, via the Power Institute and the MCA
Alison Piepmeyer’s House Is Filled With Books and “Dramatic” Paint, via a Cup of Jo