i have no valid opinion based on the experience of being black to speak about. as a white american, i am used to having my opinion heard, and used to taking for granted how my experience informs my opinions. experience and opinions are distinctly different. so are opinions and facts. i must learn the difference….
Tag: Feminism
Lunar Imbolc to traditional Imbolc, 2020
Happiest mid-Winter, friends. It is lunar Imbolc and we are blanketed both by the sweet velvet dark right now of mama Luna’s balsamic, or dark phase and mama Nature’s hibernation season of Winter. Balsamic or dark moon is the final stage of the moon’s 8 phases. It is the metaphoric PMS of the month, when…
New Moon in Spring & The Virgin Archetype
Happy almost new moon, friends She descends into complete darkness, to lean again towards the return of the light, in the middle of the night Thursday into Friday this week During our Spring Equinox circle, my women’s mysteries group bonfired on the wild island here where we live We tended the deep feminine archetype of…
Harmonia Rosales
Only showed up on my radar over the wknd, admittedly tho i’ve been wayyy off grid the last year…visit her site, here, or read more, here https://www.wetheurban.com/blog/2018/5/2/artist-harmonia-rosales-reimagines-classic-works-with-black-femininity
Women’s Mysteries: Ovulation and The Active Imagination
Dualistic, or Self Verses Other, Thinking We got here to this beautiful earth handed down human from human, parent to parent, earth to foot to heart to head, and back again. We suffer a single wound through which all else arises and which, for centuries, has been largely misunderstood and thus continually misrepresented. This wound…
Systemic Violence and the Killing of Michael Brown by Xochitl Alvizo
Anger is part of the work of love. Beverly Harrison tells us that “Anger is – and it always is – a sign of some resistance in ourselves to the moral quality of the social relations in which we are immersed.” It tells us that things are not well. And, indeed, things are not well….
Against Patriarchy: 20 Tools for Men to Further Feminist Revolution
THIS. Every time I get discouraged (and forget that Hope means standing despite the ordeal of obstacles with which you are confronted) Life delivers something like THIS…
HEART SPEAK: Saturday Holla-Rant (sucky homework, feminism, dope bodyboarders, instagram)
^ This song ^ which I discovered on Instagram by following a like to a like and then discovering the feed of one of the younger dudes that hangs out and bodyboards at the beach I go to–this one in fact, where I took Eddie and Megan to eat burritos on their way out of…