Category: sustainability
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Not a Witch, Bitch Or Hag: The Art of Dance & Menopause
Sofia Perez “And for her true womanhood arrived here there is no growing old. Age refines and enriches, warms and illuminates, expands and exalts her. She is more and more Woman through it; not less and less. The noble life that has let her hither is her grand cosmetic. Her intellect, loosed from the golden…
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From Cloth To Comfort: A Menstrual Revolution In a Material World
Sofia Perez Contact with it [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, […] hives of bees die. Pliny the elder If you’re one of the lucky ones among us who menstruate- or ever has or will- you should know a decent chunk of the humans that have ever existed would…
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Menstrual Menstralas: Why Art Is The Path Out of Stigma
Sofia Perez if there is a rivermore beautiful than thisbright as the bloodred edge of the moon ifthere is a river more faithful than thisreturning each monthto the same delta if thereis a riverbraver than thiscoming and coming in a surgeof passion, of pain if there isa rivermore ancient than thisdaughter of evemother of cain…
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Recycling Plastic: A Shameful Sham
Sofia Perez Today is the day in which I dispel lies with a righteous sword of truth. Here goes nothing: The institution of Recycling is a Sham. Now before you storm off angrily and tattle on me to Greta Thunberg, first read my article Greta Thunberg’s Got It Wrong…But We Can’t Get It Right Without…
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Detergent Diaries: What Can The Ancient Romans Teach Us About Laundry?
By Sofia Perez Featuring Ancient Rome It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of cleanliness, it was the epoch of dirtiness, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it…
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Greta Thunberg’s Got It Wrong…But We Can’t Get It Right Without Her
By Sofia Perez Outrage is a gritty and relentless pandemic, necessary yet temperamental, and easily carried past its usefulness. Make no mistake. I believe in the power of outrage. However, I also believe it must be tamed. It draws attention, but what use is attention without a plan by which to solve a problem? This…
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The Joy of Words & Food
Sofia Perez I want to have something to say. But what is something-to-say? It’s that thing we only allegedly earn once we have a Phd in astrophysics, have wrestled five tigers with only one arm, have skipped seven grades for being a child prodigy, have survived world wars, or lived shipwrecked on a tiny island…
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What if we spoke Hawaiian?
Sofia Perez I vividly remember the first garden that was truly mine. It was a rectangular wooden planter that was situated in the back of my grandmother’s backyard, right in front of this peach-pink wall and to the right of the thick trunk of a palm tree. It contained lavender, blueberry, basil, rosemary, and a…
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Aloha in Agriculture
Sofia Perez Now at the midpoint of my month-long dabble with Hawaiian, several delicate linguistic idiosyncrasies have come to my attention. Firstly there are the grammatical differences between a Polynesian language and a eurocentric one, from the way verbs wrap around nouns to the way letters- many of which are vowels- interact with each other…
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Building The Future With Mycelium
-Written by Sofia Perez I’m going to tell you a story. I’m an invisible man. You’re in a lavish restaurant, poking impatiently at a hunk of steak that’s cooked just the way you like. It’s a little pink, a little raw…just like you. You’re raw and emotional, sometimes a bit erratic, which you hope to…