Announcing the Passing of Darren Knox
Our beloved friend Darren Knox passed away this weekend, finding peace after a long and painful battle against cancer. He was a deeply gentle, loving person with a generous spirit and a beautiful heart. His final conversation was with a childhood friend, to whom he said "I love this world," and "people are beautiful." He was 33.
Darren died at his home in New Orleans surrounded by a close circle of loving friends and his parents. He had been fighting with the cancer for a couple years now, but had kept his struggle mostly private. His health declined sharply over the last few months; between spring and fall this year, he lost a huge amount of weight and energy, and his body started slowly failing as his cancer advanced. Although he had planned to come to Bike!Bike! in LA, a city he had once called home, he was no longer up to it when the time came. When we talked on the phone that weekend, he broke down crying, which was very rare for him. He said, "I'm usually so stoical about all of this ... but I just can't take it that I'm never going to make it to another BikeBike."
Darren had dedicated his time and love to bike coops in New Orleans, Chicago, and Portland (and I believe other places too), and many of us knew him from Bike!Bike!; his first one was in 2013 in New Orleans (he moved to New Orleans after Bike!Bike! 2013, you know. He just stayed -- how about that?). Darren expressed to me passionately and often that Bike!Bike!, the community bike shop world, and all the people in our tribe have been among the most important parts of his life -- the things that have given him the greatest sense of purpose, belonging, comfort, and happiness. Our labor, our love, our camaraderie, our boldness and zest for life, our politics and commitment to gender equity, our do-it-together "yes we can" sensibility, and, more than anything, the warm, deep, wacky love we show each other as a community ... all these things kept his spirit burning brightly for the world around him, for his entire adult life.
*Darren also had hopes for our community*: he strongly desired that we work more mindfully and expressly on confronting white supremacy. He actually led a workshop on this in Columbus in 2014 -- this is actually where I learned to understand the term white supremacy, if you can believe it. When I visited him in New Orleans last month, he told me that this is still his wish: that we work hard, as a community, towards making this struggle central to our movement. I hope his vision guides our futures. And I hope, as well, that in the midst of our sadness, we all feel glad that the movement we've built together so far became one of the most meaningful parts of the beautiful life that has just sailed away from us.
There will be a memorial service for Darren in New Orleans on February 9th; you are all welcome. Check the Bike!Bike! Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/648758205249998/?ref=bookmarks for details, housing arrangements, and so on.
So, let us organize. There's talk afoot about ensuring that future BikeBike conferences work to include workshops on issues like "Moving Beyond Saviorism Towards Solidarity" -- the title of the one Darren facilitated in Columbus -- and other topics related to overcoming white supremacy. There's also been ideas floated about a monetary collection, possibly to fund an organization that Darren was passionate about, or to bring anti-racism teachings and actions into our own organizations. Please contribute your ideas in this thread and we'll see where we go.
Please also feel free to contribute your memories and photos of Darren here. If you wish, we'll do what we can to convey these down to New Orleans on the 9th.
"I Love This World" and "People Are Beautiful" are nice last words. Please carry them with you today.
Josh
Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/
There is so much to say about Darren and his contributions, and I will offer some of that soon. But for now, I just want to extend gratitude to Josh for having the courage and generosity of spirit to be a messenger for us, and to all of those who have been connecting and extending care to one another in the wake of Darren's death. I think Darren would be moved to see how we, as a community, are receiving and moving through our grief with love, with action, and with an ethic of radical care.
Love to you all, and to our beautiful, beloved Darren.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:16 AM Josh Bisker jbisker@gmail.com wrote:
Our beloved friend Darren Knox passed away this weekend, finding peace after a long and painful battle against cancer. He was a deeply gentle, loving person with a generous spirit and a beautiful heart. His final conversation was with a childhood friend, to whom he said "I love this world," and "people are beautiful." He was 33.
Darren died at his home in New Orleans surrounded by a close circle of loving friends and his parents. He had been fighting with the cancer for a couple years now, but had kept his struggle mostly private. His health declined sharply over the last few months; between spring and fall this year, he lost a huge amount of weight and energy, and his body started slowly failing as his cancer advanced. Although he had planned to come to Bike!Bike! in LA, a city he had once called home, he was no longer up to it when the time came. When we talked on the phone that weekend, he broke down crying, which was very rare for him. He said, "I'm usually so stoical about all of this ... but I just can't take it that I'm never going to make it to another BikeBike."
Darren had dedicated his time and love to bike coops in New Orleans, Chicago, and Portland (and I believe other places too), and many of us knew him from Bike!Bike!; his first one was in 2013 in New Orleans (he moved to New Orleans after Bike!Bike! 2013, you know. He just stayed -- how about that?). Darren expressed to me passionately and often that Bike!Bike!, the community bike shop world, and all the people in our tribe have been among the most important parts of his life -- the things that have given him the greatest sense of purpose, belonging, comfort, and happiness. Our labor, our love, our camaraderie, our boldness and zest for life, our politics and commitment to gender equity, our do-it-together "yes we can" sensibility, and, more than anything, the warm, deep, wacky love we show each other as a community ... all these things kept his spirit burning brightly for the world around him, for his entire adult life.
*Darren also had hopes for our community*: he strongly desired that we work more mindfully and expressly on confronting white supremacy. He actually led a workshop on this in Columbus in 2014 -- this is actually where I learned to understand the term white supremacy, if you can believe it. When I visited him in New Orleans last month, he told me that this is still his wish: that we work hard, as a community, towards making this struggle central to our movement. I hope his vision guides our futures. And I hope, as well, that in the midst of our sadness, we all feel glad that the movement we've built together so far became one of the most meaningful parts of the beautiful life that has just sailed away from us.
There will be a memorial service for Darren in New Orleans on February 9th; you are all welcome. Check the Bike!Bike! Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/648758205249998/?ref=bookmarks for details, housing arrangements, and so on.
So, let us organize. There's talk afoot about ensuring that future BikeBike conferences work to include workshops on issues like "Moving Beyond Saviorism Towards Solidarity" -- the title of the one Darren facilitated in Columbus -- and other topics related to overcoming white supremacy. There's also been ideas floated about a monetary collection, possibly to fund an organization that Darren was passionate about, or to bring anti-racism teachings and actions into our own organizations. Please contribute your ideas in this thread and we'll see where we go.
Please also feel free to contribute your memories and photos of Darren here. If you wish, we'll do what we can to convey these down to New Orleans on the 9th.
"I Love This World" and "People Are Beautiful" are nice last words. Please carry them with you today.
Josh
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I didn't know Darren, but it's clear from your message that he was an inspiration. Our sincere condolences,
Drew and Chelsea The Bike Cave Duluth, MN
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:16 PM Josh Bisker jbisker@gmail.com wrote:
Our beloved friend Darren Knox passed away this weekend, finding peace after a long and painful battle against cancer. He was a deeply gentle, loving person with a generous spirit and a beautiful heart. His final conversation was with a childhood friend, to whom he said "I love this world," and "people are beautiful." He was 33.
Darren died at his home in New Orleans surrounded by a close circle of loving friends and his parents. He had been fighting with the cancer for a couple years now, but had kept his struggle mostly private. His health declined sharply over the last few months; between spring and fall this year, he lost a huge amount of weight and energy, and his body started slowly failing as his cancer advanced. Although he had planned to come to Bike!Bike! in LA, a city he had once called home, he was no longer up to it when the time came. When we talked on the phone that weekend, he broke down crying, which was very rare for him. He said, "I'm usually so stoical about all of this ... but I just can't take it that I'm never going to make it to another BikeBike."
Darren had dedicated his time and love to bike coops in New Orleans, Chicago, and Portland (and I believe other places too), and many of us knew him from Bike!Bike!; his first one was in 2013 in New Orleans (he moved to New Orleans after Bike!Bike! 2013, you know. He just stayed -- how about that?). Darren expressed to me passionately and often that Bike!Bike!, the community bike shop world, and all the people in our tribe have been among the most important parts of his life -- the things that have given him the greatest sense of purpose, belonging, comfort, and happiness. Our labor, our love, our camaraderie, our boldness and zest for life, our politics and commitment to gender equity, our do-it-together "yes we can" sensibility, and, more than anything, the warm, deep, wacky love we show each other as a community ... all these things kept his spirit burning brightly for the world around him, for his entire adult life.
*Darren also had hopes for our community*: he strongly desired that we work more mindfully and expressly on confronting white supremacy. He actually led a workshop on this in Columbus in 2014 -- this is actually where I learned to understand the term white supremacy, if you can believe it. When I visited him in New Orleans last month, he told me that this is still his wish: that we work hard, as a community, towards making this struggle central to our movement. I hope his vision guides our futures. And I hope, as well, that in the midst of our sadness, we all feel glad that the movement we've built together so far became one of the most meaningful parts of the beautiful life that has just sailed away from us.
There will be a memorial service for Darren in New Orleans on February 9th; you are all welcome. Check the Bike!Bike! Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/648758205249998/?ref=bookmarks for details, housing arrangements, and so on.
So, let us organize. There's talk afoot about ensuring that future BikeBike conferences work to include workshops on issues like "Moving Beyond Saviorism Towards Solidarity" -- the title of the one Darren facilitated in Columbus -- and other topics related to overcoming white supremacy. There's also been ideas floated about a monetary collection, possibly to fund an organization that Darren was passionate about, or to bring anti-racism teachings and actions into our own organizations. Please contribute your ideas in this thread and we'll see where we go.
Please also feel free to contribute your memories and photos of Darren here. If you wish, we'll do what we can to convey these down to New Orleans on the 9th.
"I Love This World" and "People Are Beautiful" are nice last words. Please carry them with you today.
Josh
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Here's to a long memory and legacy. Hearts out to folks that are grieving right now.
Jesse Cooper Our Community Bikes
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019, 07:16 Drew Anderson <drew.m.ande@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't know Darren, but it's clear from your message that he was an inspiration. Our sincere condolences,
Drew and Chelsea The Bike Cave Duluth, MN
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:16 PM Josh Bisker jbisker@gmail.com wrote:
Our beloved friend Darren Knox passed away this weekend, finding peace after a long and painful battle against cancer. He was a deeply gentle, loving person with a generous spirit and a beautiful heart. His final conversation was with a childhood friend, to whom he said "I love this world," and "people are beautiful." He was 33.
Darren died at his home in New Orleans surrounded by a close circle of loving friends and his parents. He had been fighting with the cancer for a couple years now, but had kept his struggle mostly private. His health declined sharply over the last few months; between spring and fall this year, he lost a huge amount of weight and energy, and his body started slowly failing as his cancer advanced. Although he had planned to come to Bike!Bike! in LA, a city he had once called home, he was no longer up to it when the time came. When we talked on the phone that weekend, he broke down crying, which was very rare for him. He said, "I'm usually so stoical about all of this ... but I just can't take it that I'm never going to make it to another BikeBike."
Darren had dedicated his time and love to bike coops in New Orleans, Chicago, and Portland (and I believe other places too), and many of us knew him from Bike!Bike!; his first one was in 2013 in New Orleans (he moved to New Orleans after Bike!Bike! 2013, you know. He just stayed -- how about that?). Darren expressed to me passionately and often that Bike!Bike!, the community bike shop world, and all the people in our tribe have been among the most important parts of his life -- the things that have given him the greatest sense of purpose, belonging, comfort, and happiness. Our labor, our love, our camaraderie, our boldness and zest for life, our politics and commitment to gender equity, our do-it-together "yes we can" sensibility, and, more than anything, the warm, deep, wacky love we show each other as a community ... all these things kept his spirit burning brightly for the world around him, for his entire adult life.
*Darren also had hopes for our community*: he strongly desired that we work more mindfully and expressly on confronting white supremacy. He actually led a workshop on this in Columbus in 2014 -- this is actually where I learned to understand the term white supremacy, if you can believe it. When I visited him in New Orleans last month, he told me that this is still his wish: that we work hard, as a community, towards making this struggle central to our movement. I hope his vision guides our futures. And I hope, as well, that in the midst of our sadness, we all feel glad that the movement we've built together so far became one of the most meaningful parts of the beautiful life that has just sailed away from us.
There will be a memorial service for Darren in New Orleans on February 9th; you are all welcome. Check the Bike!Bike! Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/648758205249998/?ref=bookmarks for details, housing arrangements, and so on.
So, let us organize. There's talk afoot about ensuring that future BikeBike conferences work to include workshops on issues like "Moving Beyond Saviorism Towards Solidarity" -- the title of the one Darren facilitated in Columbus -- and other topics related to overcoming white supremacy. There's also been ideas floated about a monetary collection, possibly to fund an organization that Darren was passionate about, or to bring anti-racism teachings and actions into our own organizations. Please contribute your ideas in this thread and we'll see where we go.
Please also feel free to contribute your memories and photos of Darren here. If you wish, we'll do what we can to convey these down to New Orleans on the 9th.
"I Love This World" and "People Are Beautiful" are nice last words. Please carry them with you today.
Josh
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Much love to all the b!b! family at this time and to all who are grieving... please do reach out to me for support <3
*Sunny Nestler*, *Programs Manager* AMS Bike Co-op + Bike Kitchen University of British Columbia 604-822-2453 | bikecoop.ca | @BikeKitchenUBC
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 10:04 AM Jesse Cooper jessecooper0@gmail.com wrote:
Here's to a long memory and legacy. Hearts out to folks that are grieving right now.
Jesse Cooper Our Community Bikes
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019, 07:16 Drew Anderson <drew.m.ande@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't know Darren, but it's clear from your message that he was an inspiration. Our sincere condolences,
Drew and Chelsea The Bike Cave Duluth, MN
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:16 PM Josh Bisker jbisker@gmail.com wrote:
Our beloved friend Darren Knox passed away this weekend, finding peace after a long and painful battle against cancer. He was a deeply gentle, loving person with a generous spirit and a beautiful heart. His final conversation was with a childhood friend, to whom he said "I love this world," and "people are beautiful." He was 33.
Darren died at his home in New Orleans surrounded by a close circle of loving friends and his parents. He had been fighting with the cancer for a couple years now, but had kept his struggle mostly private. His health declined sharply over the last few months; between spring and fall this year, he lost a huge amount of weight and energy, and his body started slowly failing as his cancer advanced. Although he had planned to come to Bike!Bike! in LA, a city he had once called home, he was no longer up to it when the time came. When we talked on the phone that weekend, he broke down crying, which was very rare for him. He said, "I'm usually so stoical about all of this ... but I just can't take it that I'm never going to make it to another BikeBike."
Darren had dedicated his time and love to bike coops in New Orleans, Chicago, and Portland (and I believe other places too), and many of us knew him from Bike!Bike!; his first one was in 2013 in New Orleans (he moved to New Orleans after Bike!Bike! 2013, you know. He just stayed -- how about that?). Darren expressed to me passionately and often that Bike!Bike!, the community bike shop world, and all the people in our tribe have been among the most important parts of his life -- the things that have given him the greatest sense of purpose, belonging, comfort, and happiness. Our labor, our love, our camaraderie, our boldness and zest for life, our politics and commitment to gender equity, our do-it-together "yes we can" sensibility, and, more than anything, the warm, deep, wacky love we show each other as a community ... all these things kept his spirit burning brightly for the world around him, for his entire adult life.
*Darren also had hopes for our community*: he strongly desired that we work more mindfully and expressly on confronting white supremacy. He actually led a workshop on this in Columbus in 2014 -- this is actually where I learned to understand the term white supremacy, if you can believe it. When I visited him in New Orleans last month, he told me that this is still his wish: that we work hard, as a community, towards making this struggle central to our movement. I hope his vision guides our futures. And I hope, as well, that in the midst of our sadness, we all feel glad that the movement we've built together so far became one of the most meaningful parts of the beautiful life that has just sailed away from us.
There will be a memorial service for Darren in New Orleans on February 9th; you are all welcome. Check the Bike!Bike! Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/648758205249998/?ref=bookmarks for details, housing arrangements, and so on.
So, let us organize. There's talk afoot about ensuring that future BikeBike conferences work to include workshops on issues like "Moving Beyond Saviorism Towards Solidarity" -- the title of the one Darren facilitated in Columbus -- and other topics related to overcoming white supremacy. There's also been ideas floated about a monetary collection, possibly to fund an organization that Darren was passionate about, or to bring anti-racism teachings and actions into our own organizations. Please contribute your ideas in this thread and we'll see where we go.
Please also feel free to contribute your memories and photos of Darren here. If you wish, we'll do what we can to convey these down to New Orleans on the 9th.
"I Love This World" and "People Are Beautiful" are nice last words. Please carry them with you today.
Josh
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Thanks Josh.
I didn't know him, but now I do a little better. This is a wonderful eulogy and along with the photographs, I think some of his spirit must be in it. Seems like an inspiring and loving person.
Take care of each other out there.
cN
On 2019-01-10 18:16, Josh Bisker wrote:
Our beloved friend Darren Knox passed away this weekend, finding peace after a long and painful battle against cancer. He was a deeply gentle, loving person with a generous spirit and a beautiful heart. His final conversation was with a childhood friend, to whom he said "I love this world," and "people are beautiful." He was 33.
Darren died at his home in New Orleans surrounded by a close circle of loving friends and his parents. He had been fighting with the cancer for a couple years now, but had kept his struggle mostly private. His health declined sharply over the last few months; between spring and fall this year, he lost a huge amount of weight and energy, and his body started slowly failing as his cancer advanced. Although he had planned to come to Bike!Bike! in LA, a city he had once called home, he was no longer up to it when the time came. When we talked on the phone that weekend, he broke down crying, which was very rare for him. He said, "I'm usually so stoical about all of this ... but I just can't take it that I'm never going to make it to another BikeBike."
Darren had dedicated his time and love to bike coops in New Orleans, Chicago, and Portland (and I believe other places too), and many of us knew him from Bike!Bike!; his first one was in 2013 in New Orleans (he moved to New Orleans after Bike!Bike! 2013, you know. He just stayed -- how about that?). Darren expressed to me passionately and often that Bike!Bike!, the community bike shop world, and all the people in our tribe have been among the most important parts of his life -- the things that have given him the greatest sense of purpose, belonging, comfort, and happiness. Our labor, our love, our camaraderie, our boldness and zest for life, our politics and commitment to gender equity, our do-it-together "yes we can" sensibility, and, more than anything, the warm, deep, wacky love we show each other as a community ... all these things kept his spirit burning brightly for the world around him, for his entire adult life.
*Darren also had hopes for our community*: he strongly desired that we work more mindfully and expressly on confronting white supremacy. He actually led a workshop on this in Columbus in 2014 -- this is actually where I learned to understand the term white supremacy, if you can believe it. When I visited him in New Orleans last month, he told me that this is still his wish: that we work hard, as a community, towards making this struggle central to our movement. I hope his vision guides our futures. And I hope, as well, that in the midst of our sadness, we all feel glad that the movement we've built together so far became one of the most meaningful parts of the beautiful life that has just sailed away from us.
There will be a memorial service for Darren in New Orleans on February 9th; you are all welcome. Check the Bike!Bike! Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/648758205249998/?ref=bookmarks for details, housing arrangements, and so on.
So, let us organize. There's talk afoot about ensuring that future BikeBike conferences work to include workshops on issues like "Moving Beyond Saviorism Towards Solidarity" -- the title of the one Darren facilitated in Columbus -- and other topics related to overcoming white supremacy. There's also been ideas floated about a monetary collection, possibly to fund an organization that Darren was passionate about, or to bring anti-racism teachings and actions into our own organizations. Please contribute your ideas in this thread and we'll see where we go.
Please also feel free to contribute your memories and photos of Darren here. If you wish, we'll do what we can to convey these down to New Orleans on the 9th.
"I Love This World" and "People Are Beautiful" are nice last words. Please carry them with you today.
Josh
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Thank you for the write-up, Josh.
I met Darren at Portland's Food Not Bombs in 2009. At the time he recommend I volunteer at Bike Farm. Nobody else did until my return to Portland in late 2011 when my friend Calvin was volunteering there. Bike Farm gave me hope for humanity, hope I'm not sure I would have gained, because I'm not sure I'd have volunteered without the association of Darren and memory of him to Bike Farm, despite my barely having gotten to know him.
In 2013 I toured with Darren (and Momoko) to the 2013 B!B!. After that 3.5 weeks, I also stayed in NOLA, though only for two months. I was then a restless person with the perception of re-entering society after a year isolating myself on the parents' farm. He was a constant source of patience, support (mental, emotional, and material), and guidance, even when I gave him reason to be displeased. Friends closer to him made clear he was dealing with much personal struggle at the time, but that didn't keep him from looking like a constant force of love.
Knowing what impact he had on me in such a short time, I'd say the world suffers great loss with his passing. But at least we can be thankful to have had him with us, and we can continue being inspired by him.
Hi All,
A few of us have been discussing ways to honour Darren in the Bike!Bike! community. Certainly, our continued work on issues of white supremacy and racism are of critical importance, and Darren’s call to ensure those issues are centred is a valuable reminder of that. Our ultimate tribute to Darren, to our community and values, will involve our commitment to tangible work on white supremacy, and perhaps that is something to be discussed in the planning stages of B!B! Tijuana and at B!B! itself, though I know there is work going on continuously as well.
In the meantime, and in order to honour Darren within the B!B! community more immediately, we have had the idea to make a dedication poster for him. B!B!ers know the excitement that comes from having each year’s poster arrive at our shops – it spurs the formation of travel plans and workshop development, and it’s a reminder that we get be together again in the near future. It puts distant friends and loved ones in touch, and invites new folks into our community. In that spirit of excitement and togetherness and love, we’d like to make a poster for Darren in the style of an annual bike!bike! poster, and send it out to members of the B!B! community.
We will put the poster together (unless anyone else desperately wants to do that part?), but we need to know what friends and loved ones of Darren think it ought to include. We invite folks to contribute stories, pictures, and general input on what you think represents Darren and his contribution to the B!B! community.
If you wish to receive a copy of the poster, please send your mailing address to lauren.warbeck@gmail.com and we'll send one out once they are printed.
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 5:14 PM Caleb Evenson caevenson@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for the write-up, Josh.
I met Darren at Portland's Food Not Bombs in 2009. At the time he recommend I volunteer at Bike Farm. Nobody else did until my return to Portland in late 2011 when my friend Calvin was volunteering there. Bike Farm gave me hope for humanity, hope I'm not sure I would have gained, because I'm not sure I'd have volunteered without the association of Darren and memory of him to Bike Farm, despite my barely having gotten to know him.
In 2013 I toured with Darren (and Momoko) to the 2013 B!B!. After that 3.5 weeks, I also stayed in NOLA, though only for two months. I was then a restless person with the perception of re-entering society after a year isolating myself on the parents' farm. He was a constant source of patience, support (mental, emotional, and material), and guidance, even when I gave him reason to be displeased. Friends closer to him made clear he was dealing with much personal struggle at the time, but that didn't keep him from looking like a constant force of love.
Knowing what impact he had on me in such a short time, I'd say the world suffers great loss with his passing. But at least we can be thankful to have had him with us, and we can continue being inspired by him. ____________________________________
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