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  • From: Dina Hornreich <hornreichdina AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [TypicalGirls] HumanifestX May 2025 Update: NOT ANOTHER MARKETING PLOY - Egalitarian liberation doesn't have to just be a dream?!
  • Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 11:00:24 -0400

Dear friends who seek to become more informed, engaged, & wise participants for an integrated, recovering transnational democracy:

As summer approaches, I am dedicating my "Conceptual Age" taskforce to specifically help validate "cultural capital" which includes (but is not limited to):
  • “Mom & Pop” Record Shops & Independent Booksellers
  • Art House Film & Cinemas, Coffeehouses & “Other” Arty/Punky Venues
  • “Fan” Zines & DIY Media (organic, analog, & digital formats)
  • College Radio & Alternative News Sources
The logic is simple: Feminism is for everybody; including, and especially, the "deplorables" (punks, queers, freaks, losers, weirdos, nerds, etc.). Obviously, I am inspired by arty/punky networks which include riot grrlqueercore & other cultural campaigns in social welfare. I very well know that the DEI+ junk is still under attack, and that is because faith-based work seems to sometimes get lost in the shuffle. (However, the Jewish "left" remains impressively resilient.)

The value that “cultural capital” offers doesn’t readily transfer into financial wellness for those
more ephemeral institutions; however, the clear ongoing emergence of a “conceptual age”
shows the importance of spiritual yearnings, aesthetic pleasures, creative expressions, and other “feminine” sensibilities which better supports egalitarian liberation. We can start by honoring the divine and sacred within ourselves as it is understood as the ancestral/collective wisdom that is passed down by matriarchs, patriarchs, and everyone in between (or beyond?!) via popular & scholarly information, media, & technology artefacts. We are collectively condemning the profanities that are causing pluralistic ignorance which condones, promotes, & exploits corruption in the forms of greed, violence, and misogyny (i.e. toxic masculinity) -- and other undeserved advantages and privileges whose outcomes continue to offer “high costs” to our communities. 

I have just started a Wikiversity page called: Not Another Marketing Ploy (NAMP). You can view it here: <https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/NAMP:_Not_Another_Marketing_Ploy> It is a synthesis of Sex & Gender Activism via "Rock'n Roll Rebellion" as I am inspired by all the vital institutions of cultural capital; and I have continued this research here in Northampton. You can view my latest report about my research at Smith College Libraries after perusing their collections of paperwork donated by Tinuviel Sampson who helped launch the Kill Rock Stars record label and the careers of Sleater-Kinney and Mary Lou Lord. The final report is on the Dagger Zine blog: <https://daggerzine.tumblr.com/post/783881552223502336/library-archives-review-smith-college-special>. That false idolatry theme is not new to the many subcultural iterations of punk rock, no wave, & so on & so forth.

I have also been pondering unconventional pioneers in nontraditional "cross-gender" relationships like Steven Patrick Morrissey & Linder Sterling, Robert Mapplethorpe & Patti Smith, and Stephin Merritt & Claudia Gonson of The Magnetic Fields. You can read those reflections in another Dagger Zine blog post!  This continues to remind me how we cannot overlook the importance of recovery as a pluralistic endeavor. And I have recently been inspired to revise my opinions of what I sometimes call "RECOVERDOXY" after watching various participants' testimony in a documentary about The New York Dolls reuniting.

And I'm going to need it because I am still being involuntarily medicated as an impoverished homeless person who is pathologized, criminalized, and otherwise fighting stereotypic slander as these are clearly political assaults on my wellness. As the shelter system itself is being jeopardized, I can only imagine that real jail will be next for us; despite the absence of criminal convictions since due process has gone out the window. Immigrants and LGBTQ+ communities continue to get marginalized instead; and we all face a slow death. I too am an “offender” for trying to be a Jewish feminist trying to live a man’s world that prefers Jews when we are dead! I can be locked in an asylum, a ghetto, or a jail… does it even matter?

With only respect and gratitude to my audience and followers as I struggle to live a meaningful life at age of 50!

-Dina

Dina L. Hornreich, MS, MLIS 

linkedin.com/in/dina-hornreich-113a79283
medium.com/@dina-hornreich

hornreichdina AT gmail.com

413-315-0485
c/o FOH & CSO @29 Industrial Drive East, Northampton, MA 01060


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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 May 2025 Update: NOT ANOTHER MARKETING PLOY - Egalitarian liberation doesn't have to just be a dream?!, Dina Hornreich, 05/21/2025

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