The genre™ is part memoir, part cultural analysis, and part design theory. Who says you can't mix shade, tea, and feminine realness in a critique of the ways concepts of god, gender, race and design heroes have failed us — all in pursuit of divining the power we hold to heal ourselves?*

Writing gives a spoken voice to the genre™. In this packet, I imagine that instead of the Catholic church trafficking Christianity into the spirits of indigenous Mexicans, the Gods of the Aztec pantheon traffic themselves into Christianity as a means of preserving indigenous spiritual practice. I unpack the “choices” we have to make when our childhood trauma derails our adult lives. Finally, I define a new way to construct a positionality statement that doesn’t make me feel like I am smashing myself into a colonial and imperial cage.

Notes capture thoughts, ideas, and valuable bits of information collected from Braiding Sweetgrass, an interview with Jessica Calarco, and a TedTalk by Scott Galloway (who I admit is often over-confident and sometimes problematic). Ideas for packet 5 writing are also captured here.

Projects give a visual voice to the genre™. The Iamgo Deisign Box is wireframed and design refinements are happening! Gooping shows up as ideas for refinement of the series and discovering that AI can assist my process where my Aphantasia has historically been a time hurdle. Psalms for Chingonas is finished and headed to the RISO. All the Feelz gets 2 new spreads and one revision.

Care & Feeding catalogs the “being” part of “human being.” This month

Pulled from my semester 1 eval from Silas Munro “ The genre is part memoir, cultural analysis, and design theory. And the vibe is right. Who says you can't mix shade, tea, and feminine realness with a critique of the ways masculinity and design heroes have failed us?”