“Never Stop Working”: Success is Just A Cloud Away

There are many kinds of freedom, executed and stilled, acknowledged or otherwise. Just as Audre Lorde retorts Black feminism is not white feminism in blackface, so too must we distinguish between liberation as capitalist inclusion and liberation as structural refusal: Black liberation is not Western liberal freedom in blackface. The distinction is not cosmetic but […]

Investigations of Time – Vol I Part 2.1

Linear Time and the Myth of Progress, Growth, Capitalism, and Extraction This column critiques cultures and philosophies using an A-versus-B method—not to engage in absolutism, but solely for contrast. Through my practice of Existencia and multidisciplinary investigation, we examine cultures, philosophies, and notions in this way to show the difference between how some of us […]

Women’s Right to Rest

Women’s Right to Rest

Women’s worth has long been defined by their labor, but the radical act of rest, free from the demands of profit, offers a chance to reclaim agency and dignity. This call for rest as resistance challenges societal expectations and advocates for a world where women’s lives are valued beyond their productivity. Fascism germinates through the […]

Decolonizing the 9-5 — Rethinking Work & Time Structures 

Decolonizing the 9-5 Work Structures

Act 1: Work Was Never Meant to Be This Way The 9-to-5 is a scam. A relic of violence dressed up as normalcy. People treat it like a natural law—like gravity or death—when in reality, it’s an invention, an imposition, a system designed to extract as much labor as possible while making you believe you […]