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About The Radical Compost Heap

  1. Hello. My name is rosa and I am the current steward of The Radical Compost Heap. This project germinated as a way for me to share my work and the work of those who I have learnt from away from the hegemony of social media.
  2. It is called the radical compost heap because I think composting is a useful metaphor for the times we are in.
  3. The way things have been done, the systems and structures that have set in motion the crises unfolding today, must decay. Many are already decaying. It is the work of all of us, in all our messy, quiet, and peculiar ways, to decompose and metabolise them into compost in which radically reimagined worlds might be sown. This little compost heap is one of my peculiar ways.
  4. Each month (ish) I will share something. Some months it might be a long-form essay. Some months it might simply be an interesting beetle I have met. Or a picture I have drawn. Or an invitation for us to make something. Or something I have read, smelt, listened to. A little compost for us to grow with and in.
  5. All will involve the work of others in some form or other, microbes and humans alike, because I've never been very good at being an independent individual and we are all interconnected any way so I figured I should stop pretending I am one.

About rosa

rosa is a human-shaped storyteller, grower, artist, and multisensory mess-maker, based in Brighton, UK. They are autistic, disabled, mixed-race and non-binary, words that help them sow gentle radical spaces to listen, question, unlearn, dismantle, imagine, play, and tell stories.

They are inspired by 

radical imagination as a tool for liberation, queer ecology, gardening as resistance, mycelium, crip liberation, abolition, James Baldwin, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, compost, quiet activism, transgressing disciplinary lines, multispecies collaboration, the undercommons, Afrofuturism, solarpunk, and earthworms.

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