Fort Negrita Blog

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i've been delayed on posting because i couldn't figure out a catchy first sentence. this is not the first time that i failed to show up because i didn't feel like something was good enough, and it likely won't be my last. for seven years, i have cultivated what i hoped to be a platform for increasing awareness around the nuisance relationship, where our everyday essential activities (driving to work, buying groceries, or turning on the air) are bound up in a system that drastically deteriorates the earth and consequently limits the earth's capacity to bounce back (resilience). i have done...

  my introduction to haiti was a bumpy ride in the middle of the night, dodging unpredictable traffic and potential protest, headed to a city called tomazo for a quick cafe et pan break before hoping on a moto for a two-hour scenic route through the mountains to st. pierre, a small town in gran bois. i spent seven days in St. Pierre; paying close attention to nature, learning about the history of @beastmodeberc's family, fetching my own water, climbing mountaintops, taking creole lessons from 13-year-old samael and becoming very familiar with the latrine. in that remote space, i also admittedly burnt...

  the disposable menstrual pads that are commonly used today are only about 100 years old. it is also said that every disposable pad that has ever been used is still rotting in a landfill today. and when the world transitioned to disposable menstrual pads it was not because of sanitation but rather because of the convenience the disposables provided to nurses in world war i battlefields. reusable menstrual pads were never an issue of sanitation, but rather a need for something super absorbent while living in a tent for months on end. ask yourself "do i work in a...