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  • From: Dina Hornreich <hornreichdina AT gmail.com>
  • To: Dina Hornreich <hornreichdina AT gmail.com>
  • Subject: [TypicalGirls] HumanifestX Update April 2025: Not only what we are studying, but also what we are learning.
  • Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 11:03:35 -0400

Dear Connected Communities of Corrected Citizens:

This spring season, I am reminding myself that mid-life and post-COVID are about my needs, wants, and desires for consolidating our resources for the betterment of every human being. I continue to ponder Rabbi Arthur Waskow's "Freedom Seder" midrash upon returning to routine rituals like "counting the omer" until the summer season officially begins. There are many powerful teachings to support our efforts to engage under all these "Modern Pharaohs" (whom I like to call "Trusks"). We seem to continue to crave deeper transformations as we anticipate reentering the gates to freedom.

I still ponder if/how we are shaping a life worth living as we strive to improve social interactions and an overall feeling of connectedness. The journey of life spirals around as new technologies afford us the ability to transcend the limitations of finite time and space; meanwhile, we are clumsily owning our ongoing blunders and blemishes throughout this journey. Are we reflecting, resting, and renewing in the face of "over differentiated" systemic bottlenecking? Are we embracing our pluralistic truths despite the overwhelming presence of "culture wars" which continue to feed on our collectively unhealthy habits: toxic positivity, confirmatory biases, even pluralistic ignorance. The many failures of essentialism, fundamentalism, and foundationalism serve as reminders of how patriarchal structures fail to promote democratic ideals; yet the subjugation of the feminine persists nonetheless. 

Furthermore: The revolution still will not be decentralized! We continue to need, want, and deserve to find ways that balance folksy storytelling with logical reasoning in order to level up to better ways of thinking, knowing, being, and doing. The ongoing unnecessary conflict, coercion, and expropriation is only furthering the violence, greed, and misogyny that is causing substantial ecosystemic decay. As hard as it is to endure, can we find the ability to accept the difficult truth that there has never been any substantial progress without these kinds of sacrifices. Is it the irony of the human condition?

Have a meaningful Spring season; no matter how we choose to do it, let's just please try to do it well.

-Dina

Dina L. Hornreich, MS, MLIS 

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hornreichdina AT gmail.com

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Advocating for better consumer safeguards and sustainable economic reform in the age of surveillance capitalism for "wising up" from rationality to morality in this emerging "Conceptual Age." 

Stopping the epidemics of misinformation, disinformation, & malinformation (propaganda) from disrupting our information, media, & technology (IMT) ecosystems by facilitating the effective, appropriate, & ethical comprehension/production of IMT artefacts on our journeys toward integrative recovery & holistic wellbeing.


Facilitating the acquisition of lifelong literacies, instead of reinforcing the perception that "natural vulnerabilities" are "permanent deficiencies," as a community of learners struggling to fight the onslaught of unhealthy messages generated by practices which condone/promote the exploitation of typical human fallibilities reinforcing the greedy, violent, and misogynistic approaches of a plutocratic tyranny who resorts to criminalizing, pathologizing, and otherwise blaming the victims of their wanton ludicrousness.


Alerting consumers to the impact of numerous illusions and other deceptive efforts that turn our individual differences into manufactured deviations (and other forms of "learned helplessness"); thereby revealing systemic injustices that are perpetuated by ongoing inequitable power dynamics (i.e. colonialism) and other accessibility barriers to the basic resources that support our universal human needs, wants, & desires.


Building a taskforce of nonviolent communicators who are:

  • Promoting an informed, engaged, & wise global citizenry and participatory transnational Democracy. (cf: listography)
  • Elevating “Conceptual Age” skills (design, story, symphony, empathy, play, & meaning) in order to remedy the shortcomings of residuals from the preceding "Information Age" and "Industrial Age."
  • Preventing media pollution, information disorder, & “techno-lust” from further disrupting our social, cultural, political, & economic ecosystems.
  • Championing mindful “meta-literacies” (i.e. becoming adept bullsh*t detectives) involving the creation, selection, organization, presentation, diffusion, consumption, & preservation stages for "processing" IMT artefactual innovations.
  • Adopting the principles of "Data Feminism": Examining power; challenging power; elevating emotion & embodiment; rethinking binaries & hierarchies; embracing pluralism; considering context; and making labor visible.


  • [TypicalGirls] HumanifestX Update April 2025: Not only what we are studying, but also what we are learning., Dina Hornreich, 04/18/2025

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