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Mutual Aid/Best Practices vs Local Practices

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This image reminds me of how mutual aid and communities keep each other fed, and safe, and how local practices are actually best practices. My own research, although not immediatley related to the specific public health concern of COVID, will focus on Indigenous food soverignty, particularly the right and autonomy to ferment and distribute alcohol (紅糯米酒) within the Amis community, and their current fight with the local health department on declaring whether or not their alcohol is "safe" for public consumption and distribution.

Mapping Detention and Toxicity

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The city of Adelanto is part of San Bernardino county, located in northern Inland Empire by the Mojave Desert. Adelanto holds the California’s largest detention center.

Chicken Wire

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Poisoned Bees

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Seeds

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Bricks

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Light Bulb

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Latex Gloves

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Sea Glass

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Contaminated Soil

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.