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
Photo by Chris Pinkham Oppression is systemic. Injustice is systemic. It pervades the whole – it seeps into everyday actions and becomes habits and patterns that function as default. As a result, the actions that fall within these patterns hardly need justifying. If anything, the questioning of them is what is put on the…
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…
This is what silencing looks like
Originally posted on Left at the Lights:
I didn’t celebrate International Women’s Day. I didn’t feel I had the right to. I’ve known for a while that maybe I’m not allowed to call myself a feminist because of the way feminism isn’t really much about real equality (justice), or hasn’t been for quite some time…
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…
Rape Culture at the University of Ottawa
Originally posted on The Belle Jar:
On February 10th, Anne Marie Roy, president of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa, was sent screenshots of a chat that had taken place earlier in the month between two student federation board members and several other students who are either elected to or participate in various…
