in the spirit of sacred sass

We place ourselves in the presence of each other We are all connected We are stronger together We are the hands and voices and bodies of justice in the world We are responsible for one another and for the earth We resist like Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera and...

Black queering in the clearing – a Black pride in pride month

In loving memory of Toni Morrison Come, to this here place Black flesh of all shapes, hues, and sizes Come all into this beautiful space in the woods, A Clearing that WE make together And, though I’m looking for all Black flesh, I have my heart set on Black queer...

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,...

queer as in…

queer as in lineages of resistance, courages actions, possibilities for otherwise ways of making life togetherblooming in and through our lives – not inherently, but because we choose to make it so to be ‘queer’ can mean a little or a lot, depending...

we who are alive

Life is a gorgeous experiment.Or, at least, life is an experiment.Wild and precious and over too soon, Mary Oliver reminds us.Experiments are messy, indeterminate, unpredictable by their very nature.Wrought with failure, too.And so is life.Aren’t we lucky, then, that...