“If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?” - Kabir

This is not war btwn two states, or just about Modi.

India is occupying Kashmir. There is no evidence that Pakistan was behind Pahalgam, but Indian imperial expansionism and Islamophobia drives this jingoism. Most impacted regions are lands of struggle - partioned Panjab & esp Kashmir. Free Kashmir

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
- Octavia Butler

#octaviabutler

We don’t need one person to fix this. We need many people stepping into their own capacity to act, however small those actions may seem.

Some institutions are ceasing their observations of cultural months.
But we won’t let them stop culture.

Today is the start of Black History month. Let’s continue to honor and uplift it every following month, too.

The Gaza genocide revealed imperial tensions between the U.S. and Israel which show the U.S. will sacrifice Zionist demands for its own interests.

Bayo Akomolafe on grief (2019)
"In a sense that is more than metaphorical, grief is the coming apart of things...Grief is a public event, not a private affair. I cannot help but imagine that the plant’s blossom is a grieving” (continued in comments)

Wishing you all a soft closing to 2024. Whatever is in store in the next year, may we learn to be with it, to be intimate with the contours of our interiority, to be honest with our grief, and to turn towards each other in strength and grace for a more liberated world ✨💛

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” - Rumi

“When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order" - Ilya Prigogine.

Tonight is probably one of the worst mental health crisis in the trans community I've ever seen. It's bleak. So many people are in crisis and I'm scared I'm going to wake up tomorrow and have lost friends.

Please reach out to your trans friends and family. They could use some love.

Colonial structures are obvious to see externally, not so much internally. One way we see internalized colonial structures is placing over-importance on the cognitive, and subordinating the somatic, heart/EQ, intuitive, social, creative, moral/ethical, ecological, and spiritual intelligences

Hello bluesky. Here for this experiment. Here for a free Palestine. And a free Congo, Sudan, Haiti, Tigray, Kashmir, Lebanon, Yemen and for the liberation of all oppressed peoples.

"Love has never been a popular movement, and no one’s ever wanted really to be free. The world is held together, really it is, held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people."

James Baldwin

Scam PSA:

Heads up folks, there are now bots on here who will make clone accounts and dm you asking for donations if you offer support to real people. New platform means you are less likely to have dm history with someone so even if you think you know them, just be extra observant.

beloveds, i am here for this experiment. let’s grow.