Knee-deep in the muck. Filmmaker, musician, teacher, activist, and social arts organizer.

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  • Unfortunately I’m not privy to a lot of the details that went on behind the scenes - the Gravel teens (the three kids who ran the show) kept me in the dark about a lot of the inner workings, despite the fact that I was heading production.

    The China video we did got pulled briefly because the presenter was being wildly harassed online by a bunch of right-wing footsoldiers, and the Ukraine vid got pulled because our timing could not have been worse. I think the Ukraine vid was a major factor in the channel collapsing, but that’s an educated guess.

    Ultimately, it was a major disappointment, and the fact that they went radio silent since June of 2022 is… upsetting. However, my other former-and-now-current colleagues from Gravel are amazing people, and we’re working to build a strong channel that will function similarly to Gravel, but with a transparent structure, horizontal hierarchy, and less reliance on strictly historical videos and instead more praxis-based ideas.