2024-02-25, Moving to Lakota Territory

Shortly before the start of 2024, my family decided to accept an invitation to move from where we are to Lakota Territory, to assist in food autonomy efforts there. Preparing for the move has kept us really busy, so this'll be a pretty short-and-to-the-point letter.

First, this newsletter will soon be distributed by Buttondown, not Substack, in response to Substack's preferential treatment of fascists. Apologies I haven't done so already, but as I said, I've been busy.

Second, I'm not sure what my presence on the Web will look like, going forward. It'd be foolish to ignore the changes emergent technologies like LLMs are bringing to this space, and personally, I'm going to be living off-the-grid, so it might be difficult to get my writing digitized and syndicated.

Which makes my third point a bit awkward: Y'all's financial support is going to continue to be a key component of my survival. In fact, it might be more critical, at least at first: we'll be far from the waste of settlerism, which is currently how we get a fair portion of our supplies and food, and not yet have the familiarity with the bioregion to engage in good reciprocity with it.

Now, it might be that distance means that I don't get quieter, and the opposite happens: We might end up being able to upload footage of what we're doing, since there won't be local systems of force that disagree with the activity.

Personally, I'm hoping to get more active on the Web, and I think that's maybe the more likely thing: right now, a lot of my time is spent responding to settler reactions to my choices, and that's not going to be true in such an immediate way, soon.

Anyway. My Ko-fi is still the best way to get funds to me. It'll be where critical updates go out, and will be the last service I stop posting to, even if I'm not able to do a newsletter.

And, that's the update: soon, I'm moving to help my people practice food autonomy. This'll mean something for my Web presence, but I'm not sure what, yet. Regardless, folk sharing money with me on Ko-fi is something I rely on to survive, so please continue doing that.