It is expensive to be well.

white supremacy is also a culture of rigidity, efficiency, more-is-better, ignorance-is-bliss, scarcity hoarding, binaries, and toxic individualism.

This is a process of decolonization. Whether you are the descendants of colonizers or the colonized—or, like me, both—all of our peoples have experienced the loss of something essential to our liberated well-being. Whether that was taken from you or given away in the bargain to win power, it is loss.

connection is not about a particular structure, it’s about values and love and care.

We can create more of what we all need when we are in community.

People are living into identities that aren’t accepted or even recognized by society at large. Their insistence on self-definition creates space for all of us to be more self-determined.

Capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy (all of which create offshoots like ableism, transphobia, ageism, and others) are embedded in the systems and institutions we all interact with—everything from housing to health care to media to jobs to education.1 But they are also embedded in each of us.

Deviating from the beautifully packaged path can seem reckless…

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a dream is an imagined reality, it is about bringing something into existence that wasn’t here before.