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10/21/20Two weeks until the election! So many folks have been writing letters, postcards, and texts. So many have been making phone calls! It is heartening. Keep on going! And a note about our daily dose feminist climate writers event tonight! This was the ad for...

News Round Up, Friday October 16

COVID, Collective Resistance and Columbus: Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020: Multiple crises in Indian country make organizing all the more urgent now. https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt/status/1316038487519313921   Biden leads Trump by 17 points as election...

Tr*mp? No thanks!

Tr*mp? No thanks!

One of my core self-care practices is peer counseling. I use it to address childhood trauma, as well as to manage present time challenges and just the stresses of everyday life. That work supports my art and my activism, and has allowed me to stay engaged and...

The Daily Dose Panel: Climate Feminism at LitQuake!

The Daily Dose Panel: Climate Feminism at LitQuake!

Hey folks! Like what you read here? Come hear and see us live as part of LitQuake's virtual festival this year! October 20th, 7PM, PST! Our panel was featured in the SF Chronicle, and you can register for zoom access with this link. It will also be streamed on...

Containment

Containment

On the 157th night of coviding, the sapphire white lightning cracks the ocean waves ecstatic, you search for the chant of rain pellets that often accompanies the tempest- but there is none, this storm, she dances alone. Her talon reaches across the parched cobalt sky....

Friday News Round Up, October 9th

World on Fire: Colonial Suppression of Indigenous Knowledge Set America on Fire Why Pence and Harris Couldn't Stop Talking About Fracking During the Vice Presidential Debate   Climate denial ads on Facebook seen by millions, report finds: The ads included calling...

Throwback Thursday: Whiteness Poem

Throwback Thursday: Whiteness Poem

Back in 2006, I wrote this poem. I dusted it off last recently for an engagement at Chandler Gilbert Community College in AZ, where I was doing a 40 minute spoken word set and I wanted to look at issues of race. Afterwards, attendees asked where they could find the...

Come see the Film: ‘The Boys Who Said No’

Come see the Film: ‘The Boys Who Said No’

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/joan-baez-recalls-draft-resistance-movement-in-the-boys-who-said-no A wonderful new film, "The Boys Who Said No",  is, to me, a provocation to act in the now, a way to learn from the inside of real voices of those who led the...

The Orange Day by Neval Pektas

The Orange Day by Neval Pektas

Things were starting to feel normal – we were finally acclimated to our pandemic lives. We took walks on our suburban streets without the paranoia of others on our paths threatening our health, met friends in our backyards for socially distanced gatherings, set out...

Friday, News roundup in videos, Oct 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m8YACFJlMg&feature=emb_logo   https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFr4LKwBDX4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDo0Xb8OhZE   A day of powerful black programming for the for the Breathe Act  ...

Enola Holmes, Donald Tr*mp & the Power of Now

Enola Holmes, Donald Tr*mp & the Power of Now

Until yesterday, Enola Holmes was trending #1 on Netflix, and my family has been watching. Even though the protagonist is a teen, it's not for kids. The violence is too intense. So we've been watching slowly and forwarding past the really scary parts. The film is...

Fires–––Inside and Outside

September 18, 2020  This episode moved me to tears, to actually feeling this very moment in a deep way I had not been able to prior to listening to this. Listen to one of our most amazing poets, writers, one whose empathy of the heart is a brilliant mapping of our...

Poetry of Witness, 9.11.20–9.25.20

Poetry of Witness, 9.11.20–9.25.20

We're living through a period of momentous upheaval in the United States, walking through the gates of history. I've dedicated myself once again to the practice of poetry in an effort to bear witness. 9.11.20 Today I’m sitting on the grease mats of the kitchen where...

News Friday, September 25

An Indictment of the System: Protests Erupt as Cops Cleared for Killing Breonna Taylor in Her Home   The Election That Could Break America: If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?...