Privilege: An Open Letter to White Police Officers.
A conscience is a risky thing because it isn’t passive. It is burdensome, and in this it resembles the other side of privilege.
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Sleeping with the Enemy: a Conversation with Self-Doubt.
I exist within you, and yet without you I cannot exist. I travel to you through many channels, yet your mind is the vessel I need to survive.
It’s Against My Religion to Accommodate Nazis.
A deeper cut reveals a culture of psychopathy: a party sickened by its hatred, misogyny and xenophobia; grown too accustomed to deceit; blaming others for its missteps; compromised by a paralysis of ideas; resorting to character assassination and abject humiliation of perceived enemies; ...
The Dance of Turning Poison into Medicine.
I lasted half a day of dance classes on the first day. The second day, I lasted less than 90 minutes. Not only did walking on gentle sand feel like sharp gravel between the skin of my soles and fascia, but the vision in my good eye was deteriorating into the kind of blur you’d need Coke-bottle ...
Blood in Ice, Ice in Blood. {poetry}
He is a kin
with beggar’s blood
dark and cold
made elemental man.
4 Ways To Practice Love In The Time Of War.
How do we speak, not to the defenses and the armor, the puffed chests and bolstered cases, but to the innocent creatures beneath, rattled and confused? How do we step into the battlefield with curiosity, not to fight, but to call one another home? How do we call each other back to our own ...
Rising Above Your Enemies: How Real Rebellion Actually Works.
You cannot change anyone. You cannot have compassion for violent people unless you fully accept yourself. Before you can deal with anyone else without facade and masks, you must understand that the enemy is within.
The Enemy.
Excuses, reasons, rationale for motives, there are none. No matter what is said after the fact.
For money, for drugs, for a skin’s color, for a preference, for getting ahead, for things, for lack of attention --
Don’t pretend one of those can justify. They are not the enemy.