Yes to gentle and intentional beginnings.

new summer playlist: "it's nice to be nice" ! ☀️🌸 Cassie y2k dominates. 💿 made w love, neighborhood cookouts in mind Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1z0L1… Tidal: tidal.com/playlist/8bb67…

🕸️ 🕸️ MIX RE-ISSUE. cleaned up our “crown heights care collective” playlist from summer 2022 (collab w founding members of Crown Heights C.A.R.E. Collective) my vision for Crown Heights C.A.R.E. Collective was joy, raw protest, experiment, energy Tidal: tidal.com/playlist/b046a… Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/7vEAJ…

Why do yall assume abusers and victims are binary categories? You don’t see all the victims who are prosecuted for retaliating against their abusers ? Or realize how many incarcerated folks were once themselves victims? Y’all desperately want things to be clean and they are not

In Amaluna, the Balance Goddess performs a mesmerizing ritual of focus and fragility. Using thirteen palm leaf ribs, she constructs a towering mobile. Each element suspended in perfect tension. youtube.com/watch?v=61FyZI…

😲 tulsa, oklahoma

“Bobalition” is a term from the 1830s that pro-slavery blackface comedians used to make fun of the idea that abolitionists actually wanted slavery to be abolished (getting a tattoo of mr 3 pointed hat w the spurs)

❤️🌞✌🏽Hippie Christmas Fest !! live music + free resources on the biggest Moving Day in the city Madison Tenant Power 😷 #NoEvictions passed out cold water and fruit to movers & unhoused neighbors Big thx to @artlitlab for sponsoring And thx @heidiwegleitner @francescahongwi ✊🏽🌻

Dangggg I can’t make a problem and solve it at the same time in peace ???

happy labor day ! organizing works. may you find your organizing home without accidentally joining a DSA polycule 🙏

1 thing I'd do differently 💛 Crown Heights C.A.R.E. Collective I think when we started, I built the Crown Heights Care Collective’s internal infrastructure too much around social media (Instagram, Signal) it can reward quick reactions, cross-talk 💕💕 dopamine organizing = burnout

🚨 We defended an elder’s home after a year of extreme landlord harassment! ✊🏾 Crown Heights Tenant Union x Crown Heights Care Collective 👑 CHTU #AbolishRent Crown Heights C.A.R.E. Collective New zine = full timeline + the steps neighbors took to win 💕 ➡️ Download: crownheightstenantunion.org/press/the-figh…

if u believe in Free Speech 🌹 but are trying to get someone fired because they didn't say the "right" thing about Charlie Kirk u dont believe in Free Speech 😉

In her autobiography, Assata Shakur critiqued those who were so busy engaging in ideological debates about who had the correct line that they failed to put their ideas into practical application. This is a lesson that many of us can learn from today. Ideologies must not only

near Whitakers, North Carolina in 1871, ex-slaves bought back their plantation and built an African American college

someone recently asked me for book recs Cane, Jean Toomer Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs (intro by Evie Shockley) For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntzonge Shange In the Mecca, Gwendolyn Brooks Corregidora, Gayl Jones

Movements run on neurochemistry as much as strategy Dopamine Organizing: Buzz & Wins 🧁🤩 Cortisol + Adrenaline Organizing: Crisis Mode 🧗🏾🆘 Oxytocin Organizing: Bonding & Relationships 🐶🤝 Serotonin Organizing: Stability 🧘🏾🍲 get stuck in 1 mode (bad) or balance the mix

ravyn lenae archive Im glad she had a chance to cook on the low for so long before blowin up. Its so much safer in those spaces as a grown woman than as a kid

🥹🥹 "Your passion & advocacy for those face housing instability truly revived mine"

d’angelo. for his album ‘voodoo’. cuba. 1999. 📸 thierry le gouès.