They Tried to Shame Kim Kardashian (in 5 parts)

Kelsea Brunner

Part 1: This Smartspeaker Will Read Stories to Your Kid in a Deepfaked Copy of Your Own Voice (Gizmodo, May 2022)

	I grew up on shame and sugared corn cereal
	Shame is the fear that something we’ve done, 
	Or failed to do,
	Has rendered our self unworthy 
	Of love & belonging

Part 2: A Climate Change Activist Smeared Cake on the Mona Lisa (Buzzfeed News, May 2022)
	
You and me are out here,
	Devoting our now, to
	building, justifying, coveting
	MEANING and PURPOSE
	For why we are 
YOU, ME, HERE, NOW

Part 3: This Hacker Group Forces People to do “Good” to get their Data Back (Gizmodo, May 2022)

When daddy (god, society, pres. obama) 
praises “good” and punishes “bad,”
	
Good becomes Love
Bad becomes Shame
	
I do bad, therefore I am bad, therefore I deserve to suffer
	
	Shame kills compassion, 

I do bad - I am Bad - 
I deserve to suffer 
is also:
They do bad - they are bad - they deserve to suffer 

Tony the Tiger says on his box 
that you have permission to evaluate yourself w/ Respect and Compassion and 

If I do bad - 

I’ve done something that doesn’t align w/ my values, but

I can do grrrrrrreeeeaaaaatt 
next time

Part 4: Plastic Recycling Doesn’t work & Will Never Work (The Atlantic, May 2022)

Coca-cola designed bottles that keep their caps intact
No more decapitated Soda Pops floating in the ocean, 
Fully-Dressed sugar bladders ONLY

Big Cola wants 2 be responsible for fixing human problems only because,
	
Instead of fixing human problems, they can pass the ownership 
for human problems 
onto YOU and ME

	In part, by WIELDING SHAME

We, the polar bear soda ppl, can make un-lose-able bottle tops,
(ofc we wouldnt’ve had to if you fuckers could just keep track of those fossil fuel nuggets)
	
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Part 5: [Shameless] Kim Kardashian eats McDonalds and Pumps her Own Gas (Hola Magazine, May 2022)

Shame (esp. shame weaponized by others to control us)
	Festers in isolation
	Belonging heals isolation
	Belonging requires being seen and accepted as a whole person.
		
Kim K’s Breakfast hashbrowns and Ethanol Gasoline empower a WHOLE person
		
Kim K is — awkward, unkempt, impatient, afraid -

Kim K is worthy of love.
		
Shameless Kim K belongs to herself,	
Shameless Kim K belongs to us. 

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