anti-imperial allegiances

May all loyalties to Love and Liberation grow deeper with each day. May all allegiances to empire be severed with courage and discipline. May affection for all neighbors – local and global, human and otherwise – be nurtured in care and reciprocity. May all...

happy pride

when i say, “Happy Pride!” i mean: see how strangely beautiful we are? how gorgeously divine? see how practiced we are at transforming fear into courage? watch while we make magic wands of the weapons you wield; your slurs, your bans, your every attempt to shame,...

mother’s day

When Anna Jarvis organized the first official Mother’s Day celebration in 1908, she longed to see it become a national holiday. As she watched it become less about peace, less about an end to weaponry and war, and more about consumption, commercialization, capitalism,...

new year

Integrate. Metabolize. Compost. Leaving nothing to rot in vain. Let it all lead to deeper transformation. Deeper feeling. Deeper listening. Deeper connections, entangled at the roots. What we need is not a ‘fresh start.’ What we need is a refusal to forget. A...

trans day of remembrance

#1 We, ancient and still becoming, tired and resilient, children and elders precious to each other, We remember across borders, through words that fit and don’t, in the midst of layers and intersections, violences of so many kinds. We remember lives, names, stories....