The Foster Words Project
The Writer, Louise Robinson, Dansedelune Illustration (with permission from the artist)
Donated Words: A Living Gallery
Donated Words So Far:
• A
• A Memory Palace
• abjection
• absurd
• Accessible
• agape/Agape
• aging
• Alcohol
• alea
• alone
• alterity
• altruistic
• anatomy
• ancient
• And.
• Animals
• Answer
• anthropocene
• anxiety
• Anyways
• Apocalypse
• apology
• aporia
• Apostrophe
• archive
• art
• artificial intelligence
• As
• ascendant
• Ash
• aspidella
• astronauts
• attachment
• autochthonicity
• avatar
• balance
• balm
• barter
• Be
• BÉATRICE
• beauty
• Being
• between
• bootsoles
• branding
• bricoleur
• build a fort
• Bullshit.
• Bunny
• cacophanous
• captive/captivity/captivate
• Carbon
• carnivalesque
• Cecily Bumtrinket
• change
• chaos
• charity
• Choice
• Civility
• clinkerbells
• cliodynamics
• clouds
• coffee
• collaboration
• collective
• colonize
• community
• Company
• compassion
• compulsion
• conformity
• consciousness
• Constellation
• copula
• coral
• Corporation
• corporuption
• corruption
• cosmos
• crayons
• create
• cruelty
• cryptic/crypt
• curiosity
• Daughters
• dazzlement
• Debt
• definitive
• depression
• desire
• desperation
• Despotism
• deterritorialize
• detournement
• Différance
• difference
• discombobulated
• dismal
• Dispersion
• Divine (as name, as verb, as adjective)
• Divine Grace
• dolphins
• domination/submission
• dump
• dungarees
• ecocide
• ecology
• ectoplasm
• efficient
• Ego
• electric sheep
• elegy
• emerge/emergence/emergency
• empathy
• enigmatic
• Ensouled
• entitlement
• ephemerality
• Eros
• errancy
• Estrangement (Ostranenie)
• Etymology
• Evolution
• excitement
• existential
• existential twinge
• Extinction
• face
• failure
• fairy tales
• faith
• Falling
• family
• farce
• fare-thee-well
• Fear of Death
• figment
• finite
• fission
• flirtation
• food
• forgetting
• forgiveness
• foster
• Friend
• friendship
• Fuck.
• Futile
• Gaia
• gangs
• Garden
• generosity
• genocide
• ghosts
• global village
• Gone
• goodbye
• gorge
• grace
• graffiti
• grateful
• green (“greensleeves”)
• grey
• Grief (grieving/grievance)
• Grind
• grotesque
• grow
• guilt
• Habitat/habitant/inhabited/habit/habitual
• haircut
• hands
• healing
• Hela
• helplessness
• here
• hold
• home
• homelessness
• hope
• Horror.
• hospital
• house
• Humility
• humanities
• husbandry
• hybridity
• hypomone
• I am Lonely
• I/Us
• idiosyncratic
• Imagination
• imbricate
• immortality
• impermanence
• impossible
• “In the pink”
• Inception
• incommensurability
• Indigeneity
• Industrial Sublime
• inertia
• inferno
• Infinity
• inheritance
• insidious
• inspiration
• Integrity
• Interdisciplinarity
• intersubjectivity
• Intimacy
• invention
• Investment
• invisible
• is god dead?/god is dead!
• Jumbo
• justice
• Keep
• kindness
• knowledge
• Knowledge Keepers
• language
• learning
• legible bodies
• less
• levitation
• Life
• “Life is from space”
• lint
• little
• Live
• longing
• Look after me (who will)?
• loss
• love
• making
• Mars
• meaning
• medication
• melancholy
• memento
• memory
• mercy
• message in a bottle
• Metaphor
• metaxu
• Métissage
• midden
• mimosa/mimesis
• minutes
• Minutiae
• Mise en abime
• Miss
• Mistakes (error)
• mittens
• Mitzvah
• money
• Monstrous
• Mother Carey is Plucking her Chickens
• mourning
• mushrooms
• music
• my coat
• My Mother
• mythomania
• Narcissus
• nation-states
• natural
• nature
• Negative Capability
• negativity
• neologism
• never
• New
• Nike
• NO.
• nomadism
• nonsense
• Nostalgia
• Nostalgia for order
• obsolescence
• Oil.
• old
• online
• oracle
• Otherness
• Outis
• panopticon
• parade
• plastic
• play
• Polar Bears
• Polari (via history of gay male patois)
• Polarization
• polysemy
• portmanteau
• possibilities
• possible
• poverty
• Power.
• powerlessness
• prayer
• precarity
• present/presence
• pride
• privilege
• Profane
• progeny
• propaganda
• punk rock DIY
• purity
• quantum
• questions
• quotidian
• Rain
• raincheque
• rations
• Reciprocity
• Regeneration
• repeated
• repetition
• Resentment
• resistance
• responsibility
• reunion
• reverence
• reverie
• rhinoceros
• rice
• riddle
• ritual
• robots
• roots
• sacred imagination
• Sacrifice
• saffron
• salvage
• screens
• Sedition
• self/selfless
• sensorium
• sex
• shame
• share
• shell-shocked
• shine
• Shit
• shit the bed.
• sight
• Silence
• simulacrum
• simultaneous
• Soil
• solarity
• Solostalgia
• sparse
• Special Hats (to protect us)
• squalour
• squatters
• Story
• strategies/tactics
• Study (via the work of Fred Moten)
• sublime
• suicight
• survival
• survival/survivalists
• Swearing
• symbiosis
• technology
• temoinage
• Tempest
• Thanatos
• the Imponderable
• the ineffable
• the sun
• The Waiting
• The world feels too fucked up to fix it all.
• things?Things
• thoughtful living
• time
• To Witness
• together
• togetherness
• Totem
• touch
• toxicity
• toys
• trans/transient/transgressive/intransigence
• transformation
• translation
• transmission
• trash
• Trauma
• Treasure (each day)
• “treasureds”
• Truth Embargo
• try
• twins
• Two Row Wampum
• Un.
• uncertain
• uncertainty
• Uninhabitable
• untranslatable
• utopia
• Vaccine
• valence
• vapid
• verse/versus
• violence
• vulnerability
• want
• war
• Water
• waylay
• whales
• What if my life does not work out the way it is supposed to?
• When I grow up I want to be a sheep
• whimsey
• widows
• wonder
• work
• worth
• wrestling
• xenophobia
• you/yours
• zenith
• Zoom
• zoonotic