creative liberation

Those of us who have a degree of fame have experienced the lack of mutuality in these relationships quite acutely: the strangeness of encountering a person who knows you, who sees you, whom you cannot see in the same way.

We are conditioned to care about kin, to take life’s meaning from the relationships with those we know and love. But the... See more

Being known by strangers, and, even more dangerously, seeking their approval, is an existential trap. And right now, the condition of contemporary life is to shepherd entire generations into this spiritual quicksand.

Fame itself, in the older, more enduring sense of the term, is still elusive, but the possibility of a brush with it functions as a kind of pyramid scheme.

to be a fantasist you must be willing to suspend your disbelief and be comfortable with the elusiveness of self. I was speaking specifically to relinquishing control of an identity fixation.

here has been a large amount of discourse around the rise of anti-intellectualism. I don’t see any growing concerns over the rise of anti-imagination. I’m going to be the first to say that we are in an age of anti-imagination . Where anti-intellectualism is running rampant so is the lack of imagination and where we see no refreshing future it only... See more

The revolution gets embodied when we refuse to separate our healing from our liberation, our creativity from our justice work, our individual transformation from collective change. This integration is not merely personally fulfilling—it forms the foundation upon which sustainable movements for justice are built.

As we continue building alternatives... See more

As cultural theorist Raymond Williams has argued, restricting creative value to elite artistic production obscures the social and political functions of imagination. It sidelines the creative labor embedded in care work activism, community survival strategies and everyday sensemaking. Limiting imagination and creativity to specific professions and... See more

Learning is downstream of doing. The order should rarely be reversed. Most real knowledge, knowledge worth attaining, lives in the hands . It must be cultivated gradually, like a garden. Really, it must be grown. Most real knowledge is the result of doing something deliberately for a long time and steadily making small improvements. It requires a... See more