CHANNELS | Idea playlists

I joined are.na in September 2024 as part of my commitment to spend more time with human curation outside of algorithmically-curated walled gardens— are.na has been described as "playlists for ideas", and a "toolkit for assembling new worlds from the scraps of the old." I use are.na to make deep dive playlists and storyboards for drafts I am working on. Each channel is a mix of text boxes, images, videos, pdfs, and links.

On casting our attention outside the algorithm, a companion channel for this post.

I love collecting tree photos: the fashion of the natural and wild.

For a little trove of downloadable treasures: PLS DO FIND something

GET IN WE'RE MAKING ZINES to inspire why you should make and send zines into the future we want together and how to start.

BLUEPRINTS for control and coercion for tools on how to recognise and name cycles of abuse. A companion reference channel for this post.

Documenting an ethnostate death portrait of the zionist settler occupation (alt title: israelly over).

What is the connection between MDMA, shitty EDM raves, and "israeli real estate?" Molly at the rave on the ecstasy of the occupation.

How very much do I love bees, their admirable communities, ways of communicating and how they make healing.

A response to intense surveillance and deepfake culture I observe is using distortion as authenticity.

Every verse a sign has calligraphy, translations and screenshots of Qur'an verses I want more encounters with.

recognising the stranger is a channel I started in response to reading British-Palestinian author Isabella Hammad's 2024 book and 2023 lecture of the same name.

For contrasts between native Christianity and colonial use of Christianity, see finding jesus ibn maryam, a companion channel for this post.

Smells Like Jinn Spirit, a reference channel about the beings of smokeless flame who are siblings to humankind

I learned about Afro-Brazilian faith traditions and how the enslaved maintained and influence connections to the divine.

SOFT for soft vibes.

See my collection of film stills specifically from movies released in 1999, a year in film history that I keep coming back to.

A channel for the legacy of Fanon (1925-1961), the anticolonial Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique whose work in Algerian resistance influenced liberation movements everywhere.

here, small wonders for a charged and wild magic box

world eaters to see who leads the consumption of planetary life and joy

I also use Raindrop.io to stash all my social bookmarks as I go:

See 🎒 backpack for a curated list of at least one thing you'll find useful,
and 📺 curated watchlist to mix your YouTube algorithm up with video essays I've seen and recommend, categorised by time you have to spare.

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Liy is a Southeast Asian Muslim knowledge worker and poet sharing what they learned from the periphery to prep for precarious futures. This is an ad-free space outside of the algo. If you're new here (hello!) or need a refresher, start here for house rules. Here is what I am up to now. I spend time thinking out of my zettelkasten notes system and sharing playlists of curated treasures from my time travels. Consider subscribing for free to read more and stay in touch— I only send out letters a few times a year. If you valued something here, tell me over DM (if we have access to each other) or tip this cryptid with a message— that sends a clear signal of appreciation ✨