Our 52nd volume—a whole year of Moon Tides newsletters! 🥳🥳🥳 Thank you all for reading! I hope you don't mind but I'm going to take a 2-3 week break before sending out our next newsletter. In the meantime, I would encourage you to stay up-to-date via our Instagram.
For our Queens/Astoria and fig-loving friends, Astoria's first-ever fig tree exchange is taking place this Sunday at the Astoria Food Pantry! You can read all about it here.
March 16, 2025 from 1-2pm
Astoria Food Pantry
25-82 Steinway St
*Masks are required
Be there or be square (or without figs for the summer)! 😉
Reminder that our SHOE TALKS at FIT and hosted by Brooklyn Shoe Space is happening tonight! Please RSVP if you can make it. Would love to see you there!
Details:
Join us at FIT for an intimate talk with Sarah Sukumaran, founder of Lilith NYC. Sarah was born and raised in Elmhurst, Queens, the daughter of Tamil refugees. She has been sneaker obsessed since she was young girl, drawing inspiration from the cultural richness of Queens, her ancestral roots in Nainativu | நயினாதீவு (island of serpents), tropical modernism, and the divine feminine.
Learn about Lilith NYC's growth, its creative process, and how the company is redefining storytelling in fashion and footwear.
The other day a friend shared an overhead video where she documented her process of upcycling sneakers. I had never noticed it before but she was left-handed like me. I messaged her to confirm because I know sometimes mirrored images lead us astray. But yes, she was indeed a left-hander, sharing “definitely makes things more difficult sometimes.”
Left hand struggles are real. My kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Reddin, “failed” me for my inability to use scissors—obviously a classroom not equipped with tools for lefties! Over time, I learned to “unhook” my hand when writing to avoid smudging ink as I moved left to right on paper, only keeping a hooked slant when writing in cursive. And luckily, I was never forced to switch handedness by my parents which I know is quite common among folks.
In this piece, Megan Marshall explores left-handedness, motherhood, and female ambition, all while being right-handed herself. She writes about the societal prejudices, the physical difficulties of using right-handed tools, while also exploring the shift in the 1970s, when articles on neuroscience focused on discoveries of brain hemispheres and creativity. This was also when Fiskars's released their leftie sewing shears—Mrs. Reddin didn't get the memo.
Anyways, I also read recently, that it's important to switch handedness for the sake of neuroplasticity or to create new neural pathways, so I've been doing tasks with my right hand as of late. Not going so well but we're getting there. ✍🏾
Shocking but not so shocking.. Switzerland abruptly canceled a conference it was mandated to hold by the United Nations General Assembly on the rights of Palestinians under Israeli military occupation. The move this week came after pressure from Israel and apparently due to fear of retribution from the United States. 🇨🇭🇵🇸
Voter discontent with a return to the polls this May, could play into the hands of the radical-right populist party Chega! (translates to Enough!), which has fed off frustration with mainstream parties. 🥹🇵🇹
Glad this article covers the case for boys to get vaccinated as the HPV vaccine has historically been targeted towards young girls, when in fact women contract HPV from men. And now it's reported that rates of HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer, most often seen in men, have surpassed rates of cervical cancer. 💉
Loved the visuals for this track that include martial arts from Punjab to Kerala and even highlights traditional ritual dance forms from Kerala. Hanumankind keeping it consistent with the visuals from his last track Big Dawgs!
