2024...

…to all that have signed up to read my words, hi there!

Welcome to my Substack. It is humbling and wonderful that you’re here. I made a goal to write more in 2023, and though I wrote some and made some art, I also experienced loss, grief, and periods of mourning—mourning the loss of life, the loss of routine, the loss of some semblance of safety and comfort. I came to an awakening that I believe will be one of many, and sometimes the same awakening, that we do not exist in a vacuum. The front of my brain continues to realize the need for community and communal care—and the back of my brain often feels the need to do more on my own, yet my more is never enough.

As we enter the fifth year of the c-19 pandemic, I remain covid-cautious: many friends and family have departed too soon because of COVID-19. I am for liberation: bearing witness to genocide in Palestine and seven other genocides happening right now globally, I believe we all have a duty while bearing witness: to unpack further what we’ve been told, to learn through the lens of those most impacted, amplify, center and respect those most impacted and contending with how our individualized notion of comfort often makes us complicit in the suffering of the global south. How racial, disability, gender, economic, climate, and social justice are all connected, and we cannot discuss one without the others.

This is a space for exploring loss, love, and friendships through writing and art in the context of our socio-geo-political times. For imagining worlds where liberation and freedom are possible, how we connect, love, and endure is endless in our imagination and practice.

I hope you’ll stay, share, learn, and be part of the ride.

Peace.

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