Donald Trump and international solidarity
I try to live close to my home in body, mind, and heart. I read our local newspaper, buy as much as I can…
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Life’s too short not to read David Dark’s book
We’ve highlighted our friend David Dark‘s uncanny ability to turn a provocative phrase many times over the years by featuring his words in the daily asterisk….
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Eat ugly
My name is Eliza Greenman and I’m an orchardist, fruit explorer, public speaker, farmer activist, and sometimes consultant. I’ve been obsessed with learning about…
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Beyoncé’s topology
As the editor of Topology Magazine, I owe a big thanks to Beyoncé for her provocative submission to our February issue on bodies. It’s…
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Forget Shorter Showers
Though first published in 2009, “Forget Shorter Showers” is perhaps even more relevant today, as we enter the sixth year of drought in California,…
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Vintage Aerial
Vintage Aerial is a huge, searchable database of old aerial photographs. In the project’s own words: Our collection of over 25 million photographs spans the…
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Christian meditation?
A friend of Topology and *culture is not optional sent over a link to an essay by Christopher Harding for Aeon Magazine called “Silent…
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Wendell Berry: Dismemberment
For those always eager for fresh words from the prophet, The Threepenny Review recently published a new short story by Wendell Berry, and it…
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Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery
Over several centuries, the assumed right of Christian nations to claim ownership of any territory they “discovered” and displace the people who called that…
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One-hundred-fifty-nine Spoonfuls of One Soil
Julia Shipley, a subsistence farmer in Vermont writing for Taproot Magazine, tells the story of her journey to see Uva Turnbull’s collection of soil…
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