Matuwehs and the Cosmic River of Nyx
I used to watch my mom doodle whenever she was on the phone. The nature of the conversation didn’t matter. Her attention was both diffuse...
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Amanda Fiorino
- Mar 8
- 1 min
Bennu Takes Flight
Bennu is theorized to be the Egyptian version of the Greek Pheonix. A living symbol of resurrection. One who wields the medicine of...
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Amanda Fiorino
- Oct 9, 2023
- 5 min
Grief as an Ally of Emergence
“Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares...
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Amanda Fiorino
- Oct 9, 2023
- 6 min
Learning to Lament in Times of Collapse
“The prevailing psychiatric view of grief is based on the assumption that the ego as we know it is the one and only ground of...
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Amanda Fiorino
- Aug 22, 2023
- 2 min
Terra-fying Futures
In order for salvation and savioristic narratives to sustain there must always be a future that is in peril. A future time outside of now...
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Amanda Fiorino
- Aug 22, 2023
- 1 min
Adornment is Ecological
Beading is a process of forming patterns from what the eyes might understand (if it were an isolated sense, which it’s not) as the...
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Amanda Fiorino
- Aug 22, 2023
- 2 min
Chthonic Rumblings
“The Greek word Gorgon translates as dreadful, but perhaps that is an astralized, patriarchal hearing of much more awe-ful stories and...
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Amanda Fiorino
- Aug 22, 2023
- 2 min
Storying with Medusa
“By purpose I mean the relational fields that beckon our imaginations and erotic passion to conspire ongoingly with the world.”- Tempist...
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Amanda Fiorino
- Aug 22, 2023
- 3 min
Me-du-saaaa
Medusa. Her name begins with two distinctive syllables that feel like the turning of a key about to unlock (or unhinge) my jaw, preparing...
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Amanda Fiorino
- Aug 22, 2023
- 5 min
Human Exceptionalism & Entangled Agency
“The Greek word for “nod” is numen. In Greek mythology, a deity betokens his or her overwhelming reality through a nod. From numen...
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