resistance
the revolution will not be televised, the revolution begins in our minds. seeds of resistance are everywhere
resistance
We are but animals in soft, responsive bodies, and when our habitat is threatened it shows. Tight shoulders, sleepless nights, clenched jaws, shallow breaths, and sudden fight-or-flight spirals are all natural responses. Before we can reimagine the world, we must learn to inhabit ourselves with patience and compassion.
100 Things to Do Now You Are Collapse-Aware
That distinction matters. Resistance always keeps the oppressor in the frame; refusal shifts the lens. In Hurston’s telling of High John de Conquer — a trickster, a root, a patron saint of laughter and survival — joy is what allows Black people to do what Stewart calls “win within.” Hurston describes John as “hitting a straight lick with a crooked... See more
To Claim Erotic Joy
- Claim Erotic Joy: curate joy as ritual. Make a playlist that recharges you. Dance in the living room. Laugh without apology. Adorn yourself as devotion. Guard your delight as a political inheritance.
- Root in Embodied Presence: practice the self-gaze. Photograph yourself for remembrance, not for consumption. Honor your quiet interior life as much
To LIVE Erotic Joy, Embodied Presence, and Sacred Sensuality
Joy animates, presence grounds, sensuality expands. Joy without presence risks drifting. Presence without joy risks hardening. Sensuality without either risks severance from memory and spirit.
To LIVE Erotic Joy, Embodied Presence, and Sacred Sensuality
My work is guided by and lives within three core pillars:
- Erotic Joy — joy as aliveness, a source of creativity, refusal, and collective power.
- Sacred Sensuality — the honoring of the body, pleasure, and ritual as technologies of knowing and portals of spirit.
- Embodied Presence — the practice of showing up in fullness, where beauty, identity, and
About - Black Feminine Cultural Mysticism: UNBOUND
I feel like I’ve taken the red pill and broken free of something, seeing for the first time the gears of the machinery of modern life that usually remain hidden from those of us privileged enough to be ignorant of such things
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“Report from the Hothouse:
The Tomato Pickers
CrimethInc. Field Agent Guero Flaco spent four months working and living
undercover in a forty-two-acre greenhouse complex at the pulsing heart of
North America’s greenhouse tomato industry, which relies almost exclusively
on contracted laborers from Mexico and the Caribbean. He wrote these letters
by flashlight from his bunk inside the warehouse dorm room.”
Dear reader, don’t be bashful about your desires, whether or not they make sense to those around you or fit any established revolutionary paradigm. Confide them to your friends and family as well as to strangers. Shout them from the rooftops and in your school or o∞ce or church. Paint them in bold letters on every wall and on banners for parades.... See more
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I will have a world I hand to my children and say, “look what we made for you. Look what we kept for you.” My daughter will be so proud of me that she will put this world I have made for her on our fridge. This is the cry on my person every morning when I brace myself for the grief and I peel myself out of bed; I am on my knees and I say “Lord God... See more
Ismatu Gwendolyn • 19| a manifesto: dear internet friends, I’m burning alive.
. Fundamental changes to society require fundamental departures from the systems we have in place, and those changes happen step by step . The steps we take to figure out something new can use the common tools we have available to us for uncommon purposes.