if you think your destiny can be stopped by an outsider you were never going to fulfill it in the first place

Niece. Nephew. Tell me, are you afraid to let go of people that don’t get you? Do you think who you have is all you ever will? I’m curious about you.

May the Year of the Horse bring swift victory to all

A 9th century sculpture depicting a female torso from India

at the new moons rising I will eat the last signs of my weakness — Audre Lorde, Solstice

Women in DIRT (Daydreaming, Imagining, Realizing, Thinking)

mind if i feel peculiar

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song and a story.

the mind forgets but the body remembers

reading about bird evolution and how their nervous systems had to dramatically rewire to go from gliding to flying. maybe when humans dream of flying it's a sign the nervous system is rewiring

I cut on a Sampha song and start feeling like this everytime

being grown and black is investing in a filter for your shower head

Always thinking of Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, but especially today. May their words devastate us, rearrange our mouths for eternity.

all octopus mothers die in their dens.

anna's eighty-eight butterfly