not busy, focused; not busy, full
this is a poem or a reset you keep telling me you know I am so busy but… and then you ask me for something and I want you to […]
Author: adrienne maree brown
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what if this body
ah but what if this is the ideal body after all. this body which once danced all night and still waited to see the sun rise. ah but what if […]
I Remember Everything
It’s been twenty years since I stepped out of the subway on 6th Avenue and heard an unusually close groaning in the sky and then a boom of glass thunder. […]
what they do to the earth / they do to our bodies
what they do to the earth they do to our bodies they press their filth into the crevice and when, somehow, still, we make it holy they take the miracle […]
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The Darwin Variant, and/or Love of the Fittest
The chaos grows and grows, everything around us faltering, falling. Who do we need to be and who are we becoming? Once I was in a room with Margaret Wheatley, […]
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St. Louis Racial Equity Summit 2021 Keynote
St Louis Racial Equity Summit Keynote (notes): We are imagining a world we have never seen before. Writing it into existence with words and with actions. We who live in […]
this is the only moment (species love poetry)
i can’t stop being in the present noticing how the past tells me what i should care about and the future tells me what i should fear and the past […]
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boundary moments
this is a boundary moment, and i want to make a brief offer into it. a few weeks ago my partner and i got our first vaccine shots. immediately we […]
this is not justice, this is respite
the first thing we could do was breathe, together a practitioner of breathlessness is guilty (hallelujah hallelu!) like, they said what we knew (he looked surprised too) that small alignment […]
Disrupting the Pattern: A Call for Love and Solidarity
shared with Tulane University for their Leadership Speaker Series Tonight I want to share a piece of writing with you I have been working on called: Disrupting the Pattern: A […]
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