All I want for the holidays is to #FlipTheSenate – so I donated
The success of the Green New Deal and so many progressive possibilities hang in the balance of the Georgia Senate race on January 5th. If we can flip the senate, we can stop the Republican stranglehold, and really begin to turn things around for climate, racial...
Joe Biden, stop distracting us from your disappointing cabinet picks with Girls! Girls! Girls!
Joe Biden is not Barack Obama. But he's trying to distract the people with representation...
News Roundup, Friday November 27th
This week our family celebrated Indigenous-Genocide-Was-Not-Successful Day. Here is some climate...
Our Blog at Litquake
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...
TONIGHT: The Daily Dose at LitQuake – FREE+open to all!
Eighty-six people are registered to come to our event tonight. Are you one of them? Join us! We will talk about writing and resistance, different strategies to move us toward a Green New Deal, pre-election strategies for winning and tackling anxiety, and Mary DeMocker...
Donald Tr*mp is NOT going to win the November election
He is trying to steal it. Stealing is not the same. Let's stop using the language of winning. I recently got an email for an academic panel on the election that said, "Ever since the Wisconsin primary, pundits have predicted a contested election, suggesting that the...
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!
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!
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
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....
The Most Dangerous Election: Breaking Up with Our Abuser
Tr*mp is an abuser. We all know that. Which is why we are so triggered right now. Abusers don’t take rejection well. The US electorate is getting ready to reject him. We are the woman preparing to leave her batterer—the moment when she is most likely to get killed....
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
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’
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...
Indigenous Sovereignty and Climate Justice: Film Editor Jean Kawahara on The Sacred & The Snake
Jean Kawahara is a film editor who is working on The Sacred and the Snake, an incredibly important and exciting project that is currently crowdfunding for completion funds. Here's a summary: "At Standing Rock, a two-spirit Jicarilla Apache/Navajo youth leader, a...
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
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
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...
Election Anthem: What’s your fight song?
I am working on a longer piece about the election and what it means to fight. Because let's all be clear: we have the capacity to win this battle against rising fascism, and a Biden presidency opens the door for the Green New Deal, but we need to fight as hard as we...
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?...
For Breonna: to be Black and female in America is to be in a constant state of wanton endangerment
“EMT and aspiring nurse Breonna Taylor, 26, was shot to death by police in her own home on March 13. In what has been described as a ‘botched raid,’ officers barged into Taylor’s apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, as she lay sleeping, and fired multiple rounds.” From...