Tag: nonfiction

Recommended Reading: Pandemic Installment: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

by harmony, posted in animals matter, community, decolonization, Indigenous Wisdom, liberation, love, Making the Revolution Irresistible!, philosophy, radical women, Recommended Reading, truer stories, truth to power, Writing

I'd already started reading Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer before the Covid-19 stuff really took off and a pandemic was declared. Once everything started spiraling, Braiding Sweetgrass became my touchstone, my comfort, my tether in this unraveling world. It was already everything I needed in … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Pandemic Installment: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Recommended Reading: The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

by harmony, posted in decolonization, End White Supremacy, gender, liberation, love, Making the Revolution Irresistible!, nonfiction, radical women, Recommended Reading

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

Recommended Reading: Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

by harmony, posted in decolonization, End White Supremacy, gender, liberation, love, Making the Revolution Irresistible!, My Hera, nonfiction, radical women, Recommended Reading, thank you, truth to power, Writing

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

Recommended Reading: A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota

by harmony, posted in decolonization, End White Supremacy, liberation, love, nonfiction, Recommended Reading, truth to power, Writing

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

Recommended Reading: This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

by harmony, posted in decolonization, gender, liberation, love, nonfiction, radical women, Recommended Reading, truth to power, Writing

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

The Nothing

by harmony, posted in Harmony Neal, nonfiction, Writing

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

Top 25 Most Played

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Originally appeared in Grist Journal Issue 6 (2013).   Top 25 Most Played You discovered this odd option on iTunes a few years back when you still lived in Illinois. iTunes had a preset playlist of your top 25 most played songs. You clicked and expected Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses, and The Pixies. You were … Continue reading Top 25 Most Played

Bethany Is Dead

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This essay originally appeared in Yemasse Issue 19.2 (Spring/Summer 2012) Bethany Is Dead You can’t touch death. You can’t hold it in your arms. You can’t stroke it. It’s not a tree or a fork or a puppy. It’s like zero, which seems like a number, but isn’t really anything at all. It’s the air … Continue reading Bethany Is Dead

More On The Big Head Debate

by harmony, posted in fiction, Harmony Neal, nonfiction, philosophy, Uncategorized, Whining About Capitalism, Witches, Witches VS Wizards, Writing

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

A Big Head

by harmony, posted in Editor, fiction, Harmony Neal, nonfiction, philosophy, Witches, Witches VS Wizards, Wizards, Writing

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