A few days after the election I was part of a massive and amazing event in New York that has stuck with me. The event was called #CTRLALT, organized by […]
Year: 2016
learning as we go
in the midst of a couple of weeks of turning inwards for reflection, i am becoming aware of the personal lessons of this moment – the movement growing, the overt […]
one week of poems on love and terror
i was supposed to be working on a novel this month but it will keep. instead i have written thousands of other kinds of words – blog words, journal words, […]
grief is gratitude, fear is intelligence, truth is strategic
over this past week i have been cycling between feeling the rough emotions of this moment and feeling for my/our resilience – our capacity to recover from harm. and i […]
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survival tips for radical empaths
“Being an empath is when you are affected by other people’s energies, and have an innate ability to intuitively feel and perceive others. Your life is unconsciously influenced by others’ […]
a range of reflections on resilience
resilience: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties things i did today to recover 1. i reminded myself of something i’ve learned in life which helps me focus: things are […]
election day eve spell
tomorrow we make history like we did yesterday and the day before bending the rigid rejecting the violence healing the broken breaking the silence marching towards our children’s children’s children’s […]
pleasure in the age of [insert president elect]
if you are actively working on the election (knocking on doors, calling black voters in the south, talking to voters who feel confused, etc), thank you. remember to eat, shower […]
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election exhale
i spent the past weekend at a gathering called with/out ¿borders? hosted by the arcus center for social justice at kalamazoo college. it was a well structured gathering, four plenary […]
critical connections
last night i was hosted at Exit the Apple for a very sweet community potluck in Baltimore. the potluck brought together people who have been doing beautiful justice work around […]