Author: xiomamusic
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gcac – a note
I am so grateful to have been awarded the GCAC Artist grant. Making music (in whatever form: recording! producing! playing!) is one of my favorite ways of connecting with my community and it means so much to have a local organization that supports me in that. ✨ I spend most of my music-making time alone.…
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power
“With great power comes great responsibility.” If you have the power are you also taking the responsibility for the product of your power?
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pale blue dot
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero…
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(social) power
“As women seek to attain more social power, they may begin to self-objectify, internalizing the notion that it is their body and their appearance to others that matter most. In doing so, women participate in their own oppression, limiting their own experience, and expression of their full selves. ” Hillary McBride and Janelle Kwee In…
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Rilke, on unease
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know,…