The Shirelle’s sang “mama said there’ll be days like this,
there’ll be days like his mama said” and LL Cool J rapped “mama said knock you
out” in an homage to his grandmother’s advice to knock out his critics. It’s
the hard driving hip-hop “mama said” directive I’m channeling.
LL said, “I'm gonna take this itty bitty world by storm/ and
I'm just gettin warm”. And while he was rapping about his tech nine and
creating the self-aggrandizing anthem of all time, there’s something to be said
about taking our world by storm and confronting the literal shit-storm we’ve
created.
Upcycling is less about crafting, and more about purposeful political
actions in my world. Simply reclaiming something discarded as your own and cleaning
it up is an upcycle. Repairing stuff you already own is an upcycle. You do not
have to invest in spray-paint or fabric and alter an object dramatically for the
project to be an upcycle. 
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