community + worldbuilding

Something I think about a lot is how liberation has always been spiritual, always been embodied. There’s an ancestral component to this. Getting ourselves free has always involved spirit, and always involved the body.

I don’t mean spirit in a floaty, abstract, white-washed way.

I mean ass-shaking.

I mean hair-braiding.

I mean altar-tending.

I mean sweat... See more

All of us have ancestral memory of what it’s like to live connected, interdependent lives. We may be cut off or too far away from those traditions to claim them, but we can listen to our needs, our longings, and through ritual, rite, and practice build a way of being in the world that honors and makes tangible our connections to one another, to

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