As Mariame Kaba says, “Hope is a discipline.” Given the state of the world, don’t you wish practicing hope right now was as easy as writing it out on a worksheet?
Despite and inspite of the difficulty, we must imagine and strive towards a better world.
@interruptcrim.bsky.social @procreate.com

Over the past month, I read an advanced copy of Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, a collection edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social. Truly a care package for the soul! I highly recommend it. Thank you to @akpress.org for the ARC!

Hi hi! Since there’s an #ISA2026 deadline extension, @sindujaraja.bsky.social and I are wondering if anyone would be interested in joining a roundtable on academia as/and activism? The conversation is as necessary as ever with global trends of growing fascism and repression.

@isanet.bsky.social

The world’s a lot right now so here’s a little reminder to stay soft and remain tender. I read @monaeltahawy.bsky.social’s substack piece with this quote in February but I keep returning to it.

@procreate.com

…and despite it all, there are still cherry blossoms.

#noticing

Living in this world is a lot right now. Here’s a little attempt to remind myself to remain soft, gentle and tender amidst all the violence and uncertainty. It’s also a hope that one day we’ll live in a world with only the gentle.

#digitalart #illustration
@procreate.com

If you’re at @isanet.bsky.social, come say hi!

As a bonus, I also illustrated putting ourselves into the 'I' of International Relations. Never thought I'd see one of my illustrations in an academic journal!

Just finished an ARC of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s No Straight Road Takes You There.
It is exactly what I needed right now: an injection of hope, a balm for my soul, and a much-needed reminder to keep fighting for a better world.
@haymarketbooks.org
#BookSky

let the words of these decolonial anti-capitalist and liberatory feminists light the way.

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
@prisonculture.bsky.social

I read Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes last month and I’ve been thinking about it since. This question, particularly, is lighting the way forward, so I illustrated it.

@hystericalblkns.bsky.social

Talking about conflict-related sexual violence. As ever, I’m guided by the line on the post-it: “go forth gently and with great care.”

Join us on Monday at 9am ET for a webinar, ‘Children Born of Wartime Sexual Violence.’
Register: bit.ly/feinstein-webinar-103023

What a beautiful and necessary book. Please read this now.

@hystericalblkns.bsky.social

“The bringing of light
is no simple matter.
The offering of flowers
is a work of generations.”

- Ursula K. Le Guin.