Start the New Year right by checking out this illuminating documentary: What Was Ours. It's past time those of us in the States learned about the people whose ancestral lands, and often current lands, we occupy. And I mean learn about the people living now, not just their ancestors. Over and over I see Indigenous … Continue reading Recommended Viewing: What Was Ours
Sometimes you read ideas that change how you see everything. It's like another veil of lies has been lifted, and you see the world and yourself a little more clearly than you had moments before. Reading Sonya Renee Taylor's The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love was an on-going AHA moment … Continue reading Recommended Reading: The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Friends, it's been too long since I've posted! In Minnesota, winter lasts from October-April, so my apologies! I've been reading a lot and have so much to share! Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown! Get it! Read it! Live it! I've been heavily invested in new, liberation models for storytelling, and … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
If you live in Minnesota, you need to read A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota Edited by Sun Yung Shin. If you don't live in Minnesota, you still need to read it. It's way past time people started listening to OTHER PEOPLE DESCRIBE THEMSELVES. This country has gone on too long letting … Continue reading Recommended Reading: A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
I published this article on Medium today, but since they're capping at three articles a month, I'm posting it here too. Please share widely so we can put an end to White Supremacy and the pervasive "accidental racism" in our culture. It's no accident that most white people remain monumentally and inexcusably ignorant about racism … Continue reading Wired for Story Promotes White Supremacy: An Open Letter to Lisa Cron
Liberation never comes from oppressing someone else, and this anthology has everything you need to really get started learning about the lives and realities of others and thinking about how to make the world a better place for all of us. When I finally picked up This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women … Continue reading Recommended Reading: This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
There are some people who just can't understand suicide at all, from an emotional or intellectual level. Then there are people like me, who cannot understand how other people cannot understand. I was absolutely laid low by yesterday's news, in part because Chris Cornell is a kindred spirit. He saw all the evil everywhere, and … Continue reading In Which Harmony Says Very True Things About Suicide That People Don’t Normally Admit/Discuss:
Currently included in What Does It Mean to Be While in America by 2Leaf Press. The Nothing PBS is helping adopted children “connect with their culture.” The children who need to discover their roots are, of course, non-white. I skim the article with a fury I know is un-PC. I’ve tip-toed around this problem, afraid … Continue reading The Nothing
It is totally worth pointing out that when I first started putting this site together, I deleted one million preinstalled widgets and also the "blog" portion. I had zero intentions of saying anything about anything that wasn't simply linking to my stories and essays and maybe interviews I've done or will do or am doing. … Continue reading More On The Big Head Debate
It's occasionally suggested to me that I have a big head. This suggestion is usually offered by either my partner, who is a wizard, or occasionally by my best friend, who is also a wizard, and an editor. Wizards have a really big problem with barging into places, giant heads first, and declaring this and … Continue reading A Big Head
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