They called it beautiful, this bill that turns cupboards into graveyards and hospitals into ghosts. "Alaska's tundra cracks beneath the weight of drills that puncture permafrost—each wellhead a monument to extinction's acceleration."
Read the full poem here:
www.aroko.world/matricide/
Lots of gear up on the site! Shout out to @nellynkettles.bsky.social for shooting all this on a way-too-hot afternoon in Brooklyn
A flyer with the words 'THIRD SPACE' in large red letters, with the words 'Cooperatives,' 'Archives,' 'Libraries,' 'Bookstores,' and 'Collectives,' laid out over top. The is a caption below this graphic that reads, 'Enjoy delicious food and music! Map mutual aid spaces in the city! Buy books! Add to the community altar! Attend copwatch and Narcan trainings!' The event takes place at Another World at 629 Nostrand Ave. on Saturday, July 26th from 12pm to 6pm EST.
Come join us with @radixcoop.bsky.social and many more amazing NYC organizations on July 26th at Another World in Brooklyn. We'll be there with all kinds of goodies, and will be answering questions about how to set up and run a cooperative. We hope to see you there!
"Play, Joy, and Creativity, these things shouldn’t be a privilege, it’s a right. Your right." #library #librarycard
Our first interview features Van Newman, the multi-talented writer, designer, and community builder who planted the seed that bloomed into Àrokò Cooperative.
In the first entry in their column, Food for Thought (Literally), @nellynkettles.bsky.social digs into thought provoking films, and pairs them with a meal to fuel your experience.
www.aroko.world/whats-so-fun...
We just launched a worker-owned, digital publishing outlet focused on Black design. Come on down and read our initial slate of stories, and give us a follow or email sign up if you want to see what's coming next.
Everything is free to start, with subscription options coming later this year!
we got a whole calendar of promo planned but ill jump the gun and share my first piece, which is the transcription of a talk we had back in february where we discussed the highs and lows of founding a coop, how we make money, and how our perspectives on design have shifted over the past 5 years
We'd like to also give a shoutout to @ghost.org for building such an intuitive platform for independent publishers! It made building ÀROKÒ.WORLD alongside our various other projects that much simpler.
So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight.
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
Flyer with white text on a black, patterned background that reads "THE POWER OF NINE. A PANEL DISCUSSION ON COLLABORATION WITH MEMBERS OF AROKÒ COOPERATIVE. Join us for a discussion around collective design practices with Arokò Cooperative. We'll be discussing our process working as a non-hierarchical design team and celebrating five years as a collective." The event is happening at 4pm PST on February 28th at Alkalai Rai in Oakland California.
seems like y'all are pretty interested in a black owned design and publishing coop huh? well come see us in oakland next week for a pop-up with all kinds of goods as well as a panel on how we operate. we hope to see you there!
my beef with the 2+ hour movie: you can almost always tell/feel a moment that could have been cut. stop all that extra yappin!
and then there's already enough music video/visualizers out there for me to be satisfied but dammit i want MORE
i would like movies to stop being 2+ hours long. alternatively, i would like music videos to go back to being short films that are ~10+ minutes long
there was a stat once that cleveland only sees the sun like 30/365 days a year lmao. that shit is true. i havent seen the sun in 4 days the whole city melancholy as hell
i'm just gonna start shitposting on here and maybe some of them will be good
we're in this bitch!
