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 A king of blog where I write about things I like or things that make me frown.

How high we go in the dark book on a bed + tea

Journeying through “How High We Go In the Dark” – a constellation of mourning

By Maria Martelli | Nov 16, 2023

One could even say this book is a study of mourning, an ode to life with its sticky closeness to an ever-coming end. 

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“Abolish the family” – On the unfairness of kinship practices

By Maria Martelli | Nov 16, 2023

As a child, who has not wondered why they were given certain parents, and not others? And maybe, our parents have wondered the same about us.

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Four characters from the tv show 3% in front of the Shell, a solarpunk structure in a desert.

3% – The Cult of Meritocracy and Imagining Otherwise

By Maria Martelli | Nov 13, 2023

The first season (…) builds up to show us meritocracy is a lie – a cunning, deep lie, made to re-affirm those in power to everyone, including themselves.

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