Tag: oakland

• // ghost ship

    The Ghost Ship fire is almost too horrifying to contemplate. Multiple friends of friends are still among those unaccounted for. Any of us who have lived in Oakland and engaged with the art scene know spaces like it. Any of us who are artists anywhere know them. They make so much possible. My ex…

  TKM

  December 4, 2016

  Uncategorized

  affordable housing, art, fruitvale, ghost ship fire, oakland

• // elephants wouldn’t wonder

    Today in Berfrois: the fourth conversational essay in my occasional environmental and food justice film series with Gregory Giles. We discuss means vs. ends in animal rights and horror—and whether it’s OK to draw parallels among different kinds of carnage. Elephants Wouldn’t Lie Awake Wondering; or, Cognitive Dissonance and the Carnivore ### Also, ICYMI,…

  TKM

  May 16, 2016

  education, environment, film, lit crit, press

  animal agriculture, animal rights, Berfrois, company town, film criticism, Gregory Giles, horror film, oakland, oakland unified school district, ousd, russell bennetts, tiny houses, vegan