Everything the River Gives I wish I could remember more moments of joy and celebration in my life. I wish I could document them with the precision and clarity of a barn owl listening for a particular rustle of grass as it waits for a meal. Instead, I have a savant-like ability, perhaps
Welcome the Shadow Content Warning: Mentions of suicide & depression. I’ve been thinking a lot about time markers this season. Living in the heart of empire, time is meted out in dollars earned and spent, bill due dates, units of productivity, and unencumbered growth. As Octavia Butler said, “God is change,” and
Captialism Featured Bending the Shape of Fear The fear that follows me and so many other marginalized folks, amidst rising fascism and violence, is real. But through community, creativity, and tenderness, I reclaim aliveness. Choosing to feel, create, and love—even in fear—is a radical act of resistance and survival.
We Must Refuse To Cooperate With Injustice New York City, 1985. The high sign that rules this summer is increasing fragmentation. I am filled with a sense of urgency and dread: dread at the apparently random waves of assaults against people and institutions closest to me; urgency to unearth the connections between these assaults. Those connections lurk
our interconnection is the nightmare of the 1% a meditation for remembering our power breath in: i am powerful. breath out: you are powerful. repeat: our power lies in our connection to each other. because your power is great and our power together, is greater. property-hoarding billionaires, elites, and politicians with lineages stacked with stolen wealth all
The Seeds of Liberation Are Sown in Solidarity Do you know there’s a humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan? I promise this isn’t a gotcha question. For better or worse, many of us use social media as our primary source of news, and the algorithm gods do not deliver the same information to all of us. On
Culture Featured Creativity, Connection and Care are the Antitode to Fear White supremacy culture breeds fear—fear of not doing or being enough. As a result, we fall into despair. But you can shape this fear into something productive. The only antidote I’ve found is to connect to myself through creativity, community, and care.
Featured We can choose a motherful existence Writing this piece has been a struggle. I'm confronted with the tension between the hyper-individualistic “self-healing” posturing of the wellness industry and grounding myself in practices rooted in community. As Ayesha Kahn described in their latest essay, empire's commodification of self-care throws us
We mend what's broken when we come together "Sometimes we have to do the work, even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible. The groundwork has to be done on a daily basis. " —Angela Davis, Freedom is A Constant Struggle I’ve been overwhelmed
A world where domination is not required to survive "Cultures of domination rely on the cultivation of fear as a way to ensure obedience." ― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions Domination is defined as the exercise of control or influence over someone or something, or the state of being so controlled. The United States was born
