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A curated intellectual archive. Philosophy, astrology, consciousness, culture, and the rabbit holes in between.

Women in the Record

Women in the RecordSep 22, 2026

Gloria Anzaldúa

Queer Chicana feminist theorist. Borderlands/La Frontera, nepantla, mestiza consciousness: identity and living between worlds.

Women in the RecordSep 22, 2026

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Seventeenth-century Mexican intellectual, poet and nun. Education, knowledge, and a woman’s authority to have either.

Women in the RecordSep 22, 2026

María Lugones

Argentine feminist philosopher. The coloniality of gender, “world”-travelling, and what decolonial feminism asks of you.

Women in the RecordSep 22, 2026

V. F. Cordova

Jicarilla Apache and Hispanic philosopher. Indigenous philosophy, relationality, place, and refusing to let the West define what counts as philosophy.

Women in the RecordSep 21, 2026

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex, 1949. One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman — and the century spent arguing about what that sentence means.

Women in the RecordSep 21, 2026

Simone Weil

Attention as the rarest form of generosity, affliction as a thing you can think clearly about, and a philosopher who went to work in the factory to check.

Women in the RecordSep 21, 2026

Audre Lorde

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle, because none of us live single-issue lives.

Women in the RecordSep 21, 2026

Angela Davis

Women, Race & Class, and a lifetime of showing that prisons, race and gender are one question rather than three.

Philosophy

PhilosophyJul 14, 2026

Knowledge Is Free Now. Interpretation Isn't.

AI handed everybody the library. It didn't hand anybody a point of view. What's scarce now isn't the information — it's who is reading it, and from where they're standing.

Books & Literature

Books & LiteratureApr 11, 2026

Reading Dostoevsky in a Burning Century

The Brothers Karamazov asks the only question that matters right now: can you keep loving people while you argue with God about them.

Astrology

AstrologyJun 2, 2026

Saturn Doesn't Care About Your Vision Board

Astrology as a discipline of timing, not a permission slip. What the Saturn return actually asks of you.

AstrologyDec 20, 2025

Free Will, Retrograde Season, and Other Excuses

Mercury retrograde didn't send that text. You did. On using the sky as a mirror instead of an alibi.

Consciousness

ConsciousnessMar 22, 2026

The Ego Isn't the Enemy, It's the Doorman

Every tradition tells you to dissolve the ego. Nobody tells you the doorman is the only reason the house hasn't been robbed yet.

Religion & Spirituality

Religion & SpiritualityMar 5, 2026

Catholic Guilt Is Just Unfiled Grief

You don't get to inherit the incense without inheriting the guilt. A love letter and an argument with the church that raised half of us.

Culture

CultureFeb 18, 2026

Chola Iconography Was Never Asking Permission

Winged eyeliner as armor, hoop earrings as heraldry. A visual language built by women who were never supposed to have one.

Ancestral Futures

Ancestral FuturesApr 30, 2026

What Adobe Knew That Concrete Forgot

Ancestral building methods weren't primitive; they were in conversation with climate in a way our glass towers refuse to be.

The Conscious Report

The Conscious ReportMay 19, 2026

The Border Was Always a Metaphysical Problem

Lines on a map are a philosophy of who gets to be a self. Reading the week's headlines through that lens changes what you're actually looking at.

The Conscious ReportJan 15, 2026

The Algorithm Is a Colonizer With Better UX

Extraction rebranded as personalization. What attention economies have in common with every empire before them.

Rabbit Holes

Rabbit HolesJul 29, 2026

Is Suffering Necessary for Transformation?

Every tradition tells us pain is the price of becoming. I went looking for the receipt and found something closer to a scam.

Rabbit HolesFeb 1, 2026

Following Nepantla Down the Rabbit Hole

Started with one Anzaldúa quote about living in the in-between. Ended up somewhere between quantum theory and a family recipe.