Welcome to Body Count—
This is a practice in embodiment.
It is writing to bring you back to your body and to help you (to help me) remember it as a subject, not an object.
It is writing about becoming a subject in your own body, with a focus on the relationship between consciousness and physicality. It is touch and taste, smell and sound.
Here, I write about navigating an increasingly intangible and abstract world while you’re living in a very tangible form. (I am talking about your body.)
It is rooted in presence and acceptance, with a caveat that health (as they say) is wealth. But it is not wellness culture. It thinks period blood is punk.
We do not exercise to look good; we exercise to feel better in our bodies. (But lol that’s complicated when we live in a visual-based society and we should talk about that.)
It is about the body in an era of climate collapse. It is about the body when many workers are just perceived on a screen from the shoulders up. It is about your fitness tracker.
In short, this is a somatic practice of de-capitalizing our thinking about the body; we do not exist as legible products, we are sensing and feeling beings. We put our hands in grass; we let our skin change from the sun.
Your body counts. And, more importantly, how you feel in it counts more than what other people think of it. And that’s fucking punk.
Rock on, dawgs.
What can I expect as a Body Count subscriber?
Personal essays!
Interviews!
Product criticism & analysis!
Inspiration (from artists, writers, thinkers, scientists and more)!
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