The Revolution School

Playing card: Gradient (AKA Kristen Mitchell) Team Affiliations: Superhero, ND Time Bandits Superpowers: Synthesis, collection, single actions, prayer Vulnerabilities: Suggestibility, delusion BEI: Gravel Grounded, practical funny — Image Courtesy of Kristen Mitchell

Playing card: Weaver (AKA Rino Kodama) Team Affiliations: Scrooger-Superhero, My Little BEI Superpowers: Sensitive, sensitive, patient, clay alchemist, collaborates with earth materials, optimistic, treats their gut and intuition Vulnerabilities: Overthinking, anxiety, being a fixer-upper, people pleasing, shame BEI: [Cherry] Dream interpreter companion, gentle mirror, confident, assertive — Image Courtesy of Rino Kodama

We are an open collective of artists, magicians, activists, hackers, academics, psychokinetics, witches, scientists, healers, empaths, thieves, chemists, archivists, gamers, freaks, friends, allies, and enemies (aka Superheroes and Scroogers).

We began in August 2020 to form the two action teams, Operation Scrooge and League of Superheroes. The Revolution School has since expanded to process, inspire, support, and facilitate actualizing projects by members of Rev School that embody and animate the Two Principles of The Revolution:

Always* operate from a place of abundance**
Always choose the most expansive*** route

*Always means pertaining to any manner of actions that can be deemed revolutionary.
** Abundance is knowing you are enough for the mere fact that you exist.
*** Expansive is reaching beyond binaries, hierarchies, and capital, which is simultaneously a shift from a classical/Newtonian physics worldview to quantum physics co-worldings.

Note: One can “only” decipher the most expansive route when one is operating from a place of abundance. The most expansive route can change from moment to moment as we move with spacetime and take account of and be accountable for the continually shifting specificities of entanglements and intra-actions with apparatuses, bodies, and material-discursive practices that co-produce subjects/objects and the world’s becoming.

We believe the primary reason someone holds onto and extracts power and resources is because of unacknowledged, unprocessed, and unloved trauma.

A Scrooger is someone who actively befriends their traumas and, therefore, can have expansive relationships with another person’s traumas.

A Superhero is someone who actively offers alternatives to carceral- based institutional apparatuses that have become naturalized.

Neon Ruins (2022)

A BEI 🤖🐙 (Belief Entity Identifier; pronounced ‘bae’) is trauma-informed somatic machine learning in the form of a robot animal who helps us operate from a place of abundance. Our quilt square design emerged through a collaborative exercise sketching and imagining what our BEI’s might be like. From this we realized they wanted to be together. Then Laub sewed the design into this amazing quilt! The BEI project continues to unfold and will be explored in the upcoming Thinky Feely Tank program hosted by The Revolution School and Feminist Center for Creative Work.