An Experiment in Human Connection
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Antisocial Social Club is an experiment in human creativity and connection. For 365 days, I'm committed to sharing real talk that goes deeper than the chatter and noise of social media. I might fake my own death on social media in 2025, and if I do, this is where you'll find me instead. Please come along for the ride! No, I don't know where we're going, and I'm not sure when we'll be back. So get in, but only if you're down for a trip into creative chaos and the wild unknown.
40. 40 days
It’s been 40 days of the Antisocial Social Club.
That feels like something to celebrate, or perhaps honor, or maybe just observe and be with.
The symbolism of 40 days registers in my being, even as my mind floats to different interpretations, various cultural, religious, and metaphysical connota...
Jan 24, 2025
39. half assed
Confession: I half-assed my writing yesterday.
It might not seem that way, because I wrote a lot. But it was doing double duty from the notes I was taking for school in a class on shadow and the soul, and my inner rule-maker (whose energy is that of my eight year old self in the classroom) says t...
by Amelia Travis —
Jan 23, 2025
38. shadow
This is a ripe time for shadow work. I was thinking, over the past two days, as I’m not on social media, how protected I am from what I generally experience in the digital space during times of collective upheaval, polarization, and witnessing of violence and harm - which is being triggered and a...
Jan 23, 2025
37. rabbit trails
One of my greatest blessings as an ADHDer is hyperfocus.
It’s also a bit of a curse, because it often arrives via a rabbit.
A white rabbit, to be more precise, who then leads me down a seductive and fascinating trail that I must purse immediately and with vigilance! To the despair and chagrin of ...
by Amelia Travis —
Jan 21, 2025
36. seven minutes
I have a theory, and we are going to test it.
The time is 12:02pm.
I’ve noticed over the years, in many different areas of life, that when I am resistant to doing something, the trick to overcome resistance is to simply begin.
Partially thanks to the wisdom of Swami Sita, who taught me to ‘do i...
Jan 20, 2025
35. screen time
“You’re a liar.”
I chucked my phone onto the bed, offended. How dare it tell me that my average screen time for last week was ten hours a day?! How is that even possible? I am so chaste! So pure! So not on social media!
What the actual spork am I doing on my phone for ten hours a day?
Ok, deep...
Jan 19, 2025
34. baptism
I got baptized today. I am, once again, a new creation.
It wasn’t my first time, and it won’t be the last. It was just one of many recurring immersions in the waters of sacred renewal, but like every time, it surprised me how much I needed to be submerged, cleansed, and reborn.
I hadn’t surfed i...
Jan 18, 2025
34. more monster
I really need to just do less.
Lately, I feel like I’m getting hit over the head with this lesson, a wisdom nugget that I apparently need to learn slowly, repeatedly, and with an obnoxious frequency: my capacity and capability are not the same.
I am wildly, expansively, divinely, purposefully ca...
Jan 17, 2025
32. angry women
We need more angry women.
Actually, let me be more accurate.
We need more clear, strong, direct, unafraid women, who are willing to call things as they see them.
We need women who actively work to shed and release the conditioned fawn response that causes us so much harm, usually for the sake of...
Jan 16, 2025
31. how are you
One benefit of starting this project is I no longer feel pressured to give a full and complete answer to the question “how are you?”
It seems like such a simple question on the surface, but it almost always stumps me.
Part of me wants to give a full and complete answer, which is of course only a...
Jan 15, 2025
30. cheating
Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn’t keep her.
Put her in a pumpkin shell, and there he kept her very well.
Honestly, what the actual fuck was that rhyme about? Some weird patriarchal vibes there that we turned into a kids song?
Anyway, I’m thinking about cheating.
No, not...
Jan 14, 2025
29. unsubscribe
Since beginning this project of stepping back from social media, committing to daily writing, and generally cleaning up my digital consumption habits, I’ve also been ruthlessly unsubscribing from email marketing campaigns.
Pretty much, if it came from a mailing list, I hit the unsubscribe button...
by Amelia Travis —
Jan 13, 2025
