Forrest Brown

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He/Him • Writer • Can’t swim/Can’t dance/Don’t know karate 🐘: @frrstbrwn@theatl.social 📍 Decatur, GA Podcast: https://storiesforearth.com Blog: https://stickyweather.com

A poster taped to a telephone pole in Atlanta reads: STATE-WIDE RALLY & MARCH STAND WITH MINNESOTA ICE OUT! GEORGIA, SHUT IT DOWN! WALK OUT OF SCHOOL, NO WORK, NO SHOPPING FRI JAN 30 5 PM - 3360 BUFORD HWY NE
A photo of a Jean-Paul Sartre quote in The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon that reads: “How come he can't see his own savagery as a colonist in the savagery of these oppressed peasants who have absorbed it through every pore and for which they can find no cure? The answer is simple: this arrogant individual, whose power of authority and fear of losing it has gone to his head, has difficulty remembering he was once a man; he thinks he is a whip or a gun; he is convinced that the domestication of the ‘inferior races’ is obtained by governing their reflexes. He disregards the human memory, the indelible reminders; and then, above all, there is this that perhaps he never knew: we only become what we are by radically negating deep down what others have done to us.”
Screenshot of a post from Amy Westervelt on Bluesky, cross-posted to the Fediverse via Bridgy, sharing a timeline of actions around oil in Venezuela leading up to the Trump administration’s kidnapping of Maduro.
A photo of a circle divided into four quadrants representing spring, summer, fall, and winter. Each quadrant contains a list of fruit, vegetables, herbs, and others that are available in that season.
Screenshot of a quote tweet by the Hampton Institute @HamptonThink on X that quoted a @socialiststeve6 tweet reading, “After 20 years teaching in a Northern Virginia jail, I’ve come to the conclusion that most people incarcerated are there because they are poor.” The Hampton Institute added this comment: “Capitalism creates generational poverty. Generational poverty breeds desperation. Desperation leads to self-destruction, crime, child abuse, etc. “Capitalism creates prisons, nonprofit industrial complex, big pharm, etc to profit from the desperation. It's a never-ending cycle.”
Tattoo of an emblem drawn by the French philosopher Montaigne and inspired by Anthony Bourdain. The tattoo features two birds facing away from each other holding up a balanced scale against a coat of arms. Ancient Greek lettering wraps around the symbol and says epoché.
A photo of Mike Myers in full costume and makeup as the Cat in the Hat in the live action movie.
Screenshot of a chat with the Substack AI chatbot for customer support in which the chatbot tells me to ask for a support agent but then informs me it is the support agent.
Screenshot of an Anthropocene Magazine newsletter that shows the heading “Insults Don’t Reduce Atmospheric Carbon,” suggesting we should spotlight innovators instead of laggards and that oil companies are not climate villains but “anti-heroes.”
A screenshot of a bizarre tweet from Joyce Carol Oates suggesting that people who decorate for Halloween are unfeeling and callous towards death.
A paper handwritten sign taped to the office coffee maker reads: “Making scary noises but still works fine.”
A preview card that reads: "Tensions still high over the Mountain Valley Pipeline as sabotage claimed." Smaller text underneath reads: "Plus, malaria in the US and a new Cop City lawsuit."
Two people sit on a bus, one with a window seat of a beautiful view, the other across the aisle with a window seat of an ugly view. The word “Writing” appears beneath both of them.