New Lotus Budo Post Now Live for Your Reading Pleasure
I put together a quick overview of “5 Peaceful Community-Building Resistance Practices.” Linked in post! Continue reading New Lotus Budo Post Now Live for Your Reading Pleasure
Category: Essay
My Return to Sound Debuts on Phil Western’s Afterflash: A Remixed Tribute
Phil Western’s Afterflash: A Remixed Tribute just went live for preorder, and I couldn’t be more ecstatic! We worked on the album for so long and it’s finally here to share with you, my lovelies. Continue reading My Return to Sound Debuts on Phil Western’s Afterflash: A Remixed Tribute
To Bear Witness is To Resist
This book made me realize more than ever that to bear witness to atrocities and personal narratives is to resist systems of oppression (i.e., the U.S. slavery system, authoritarian regimes…or political cults). Continue reading To Bear Witness is To Resist
New Blog: Lotus Budo
Hi friends. I’ve finally started my blog Lotus Budo, Notes on the Intersection of Buddhism & Aikido. You can find it linked in the menu on my personal website (which is where you are now), or you can go to: https://lotusbudo.com As always, thanks for reading! Continue reading New Blog: Lotus Budo
Staged Beatnik Photo from 1959 Perpetuates Patriarchal Subjugation
This unfortunate relic is a reminder of where the status-quo of American society is torpedoing toward right now. Is there enough cultivated resistance to thwart it? Continue reading Staged Beatnik Photo from 1959 Perpetuates Patriarchal Subjugation
Help Name a Park After Diane di Prima
Women of the Beat Generation are hardly known. Let’s change that by naming a San Francisco park after the revolutionary Beat poet Diane di Prima. Continue reading Help Name a Park After Diane di Prima
My Brother’s Escape
This essay is in memory of my late brother Stephen George Giarritta. Continue reading My Brother’s Escape
Silenced Resisters: Recovering 20th-Century Waves of Beatnik Women
Beatnik women deserve to be permanently added to the Beat Generation canon. Continue reading Silenced Resisters: Recovering 20th-Century Waves of Beatnik Women
A Eulogy for Patrick Haenelt
A eulogy for my dear friend and soul brother, Patrick Haenelt. Continue reading A Eulogy for Patrick Haenelt
A Eulogy for Phil Western
Phil Western left this mortal coil two years ago today, and lives on in my heart, always. Continue reading A Eulogy for Phil Western
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