The issues we face as a human species are far too complex and entangled for any one person to comprehend. The information terrain is certainly bumpy, and it’s only getting bumpier. We might look around this strange new world and realize there are places, nooks and crannies our eyes can’t reach, so we must reach out to one another to grasp its contours.

We already know what technology looks like under the reign of Western patriarchal thinking. Now, let’s imagine it’s alternative, through the lens of the feminine care perspective and through the unitary spirit of radical interdependence. As Donna Haraway writes, “It matters what stories we tell.  It matters what thoughts think thoughts. It matters what worlds world worlds.”

As social and environmental issues grow increasingly dire, let us ask ourselves, if it's possible to modify Minecraft's code, in what ways can we hack our real socio-economic systems and create pockets of alternate realities in which everyone can thrive?

As we grow increasingly aware of the harmfulness of physical punishment and learn about fairer ways of dealing with children, it would serve us well to question what, so ingrained in our cultural fabric, we’ve long accepted as normal.

I never paid much attention to the table setting during Sunday lunches at my grandma’s until she asked me if I liked her new bell. A little buttress for the status quo, I thought about how the object in fact reinforces social hierarchy in old Filipino households.