onwacollective:

I’ve started a collective of black and indigenous women writers sharing ancestral stories on Substack. If this is you, welcome 💗

I just spent an unreasonable amount of time updating the welcome email so if you join now you get to see it!

New letter/story loading within the next week.

dramaticwriter:

ryebreadgf:

ryebreadgf:

something something the poetry of science etc

woah

yeah

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geryone:

ALT

Haruko/Love Poems, June Jordan

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divineexpression:

I want my life to look like me. Like, the real me, not a watered down version of me that is able to adapt & fit in.

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recoveringarchivist:

everyone worried about seed oils should be worried about getting a hug once a day I think regular caring touch offsets inflammation that’s just how I feel

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anancientheart:

TAKE A GLIMPSE INTO YOUR FUTURE. ENVISION A VERSION OF YOURSELF THAT FEELS WHOLE, LOVED, SAFE, NURTURED, AND FREE:

• write morning & night routines this self takes part in.
• how do they honor their joy?
• who do they surround themselves with?
• what do they do when they’re experiencing difficult feelings?
• how do they speak to themselves? how do they speak to others?
• how do they handle conflict?
• write a list of ways that they care for their mind & body.
• do they have a spiritual practice? how do they honor it?
• do they have boundaries in place? if so, what?
• do they embrace vulnerability? in what ways?
• what do they do in their free time?
• where do they place the most meaning in their life?
• how do they bring in security and abundance?

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One of my intentions for 2026 is to be in community with more writers. On january 24th, I’m teaching a virtual workshop on how to turn fragments of memory into writing that resonates. You’ll learn the techniques of lyrical memoir writing—using image, rhythm, and voice to shape personal experience into powerful narratives. Learn more and join HERE.

eatmangoesnekkid:

It’s not enough to just say you are abundant. Abundance has to become your real identity. It has to be something you invest in. Abundance has to felt in the time and energy you put into your meals. Abundance has to show up in how you posture your spine or make love to your beloved. Abundance has to activate in your saliva and scent. Abundance can’t be theory. It has to be a lived frequency that you cultivate and tend to in body, energy, and life. -India Ame'ye, Author

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rebeccathenaturalist:

Tired, scared, depressed people are easier to control and less likely to fight back. It is quicker to temporarily feed anxiety with trinkets than to create structures to dismantle and prevent anxiety.

It is not your fault if you are exploited in these ways. You are not weak, or bad, or “not trying hard enough” if you feel the weight of the world upon you, if it takes all you have just to survive. It’s okay if you have ups and downs, if one day you’re able to do many things and the next barely get out of bed. You did not create the system we are all trying to function within, one that punishes what it cannot exploit.

But your ongoing survival is a message that you are not defeated. Every single moment you are here offers the opportunity to try again, to be better, to grow and change and learn. Missed the last opportunity? That’s okay, another one will come along any moment now, and the next, and the next. You just choose which one is the best for stepping aboard a new pathway, when you’re ready. If it takes a while because you are, in fact, tired, scared, depressed, that’s okay. There are many, many moments before you and who knows what could go right?

Self-care is rebellion. Joy is a radical act. Love–given to others, and above all to yourself–is a key part of the antidote to what ails us. Even if your embodiments of these are not big and momentous, they are no less important a part of your ongoing story, and the weaving of a better world.

angelicdewdrop:

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