I recently had the opportunity to attend the session on Being Led by Young People with the inspirational Yumma Hussen, Mahnoor Kamran, Dev Sharma and Kwesia, City Girl in Nature. I was blown away by the energy, determination, wisdom and love for life of these young people. I could have listened for a long time […]
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Maya Angelou
We certainly live in interesting times. And to be honest, this has been coming, at the very latest, since The Limits to Growth was published in 1972. Millions if not billions of people all over the world have been suffering from multiple crises since then. Now even the lucky few are starting to feel the […]
We're doing repair and restoration to our imaginations. Because none of our communities have ever been perfect, right? We don't actually want to go back to anywhere. We want to reimagine and then say, 'What does it mean, what must we restore and make whole for us to actually get there?
Elandria Williams
As relevant as ever
I became acutely aware that what a child wanted to do most of all was to make a world in which to find a place to discover a self.
Edith Cobb
There's no excuse for causing our own extinction.
Dr. Sylvia Earle
Cross-stitch created by Malmö Craftivists for the Degrowth conference in Malmö 2018
August 16th, 2018
Posted In: Art
Tags: 2018, Art, Buen vivir, community gardening, creativity, Degrowth, Nature, Politics, Textile art, Women
The 6th International Degrowth Conference will take place on 21-25 August 2018 in Malmö, Sweden. Gerillaslöjd (Craftivists) Malmö are making bunting to decorate the park show participants the venues. Here’s the first set.
February 16th, 2018
Posted In: Comics
Tags: 2018, Art, Buen vivir, Comics, community gardening, creativity, Degrowth, fanzine, Festival, Illustration, Jellyfish, Malmö, Malmö stadsbibliotek, Nature, Politics, Seriefest, Women
Not long now. On Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th March, 2018, it’s time for Seriefest again! It is a great DIY comic festival where all kinds of folks sell their comics and other visual materials. I’ll be there with the Killer Jellyfish. You can read my interview here (in Swedish). Don’t miss the fun! […]