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This is a news-free newsletter out of chronological time and also a website. I will close my eyes and press send every so often, and if you are on the other side to receive it, well, I hope we both get a good laugh and not a stomach ache. I'm not a well established writer, but I have written a book that was published by Pluto Press, and I have contributed articles to Arts of the Working Class, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Contemporary Political Theory (academic journal), and other places where I raised the bar on honesty, awkwardness and absurdity with a fairly straight face.

***Most of the time when I write things for publications, they are edited and the good bits (the screaming into the water moments) are removed. I will place things in their full glory here. You are welcome?

Who am I in third person?

Cassie Thornton is an artist and activist who makes a “safe space” for the unknown, for disobedience, and for unanticipated collectivity. She is currently working on a way to wake up without more than 90% dread, and that manifests in things like small pieces of writing, and also a huge project called The Hologram.

She uses social practices including institutional critique, insurgent architecture, and “healing modalities” like hypnosis and yoga to find soft spots in the hard surfaces of capitalist life. Cassie has invented a grassroots alternative credit reporting service for the survivors of gentrification, has hypnotized hedge fund managers, has finger-painted with the grime found inside banks, has donated cursed paintings to profiteering bankers, and has taught feminist economics to yogis (and vice versa). Her new book, The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future, is available from Pluto Press.

She is currently the living and working between Thunder Bay, Canada and Berlin, Germany.