IF YOU HAVE EVER WONDERED... WHAT YOU'D DO DURING SLAVERY, THE HOLOCAUST OR CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT YOU'RE DOING IT RIGHT NOW.

Our decomposing future on live TV ☠️ A platter of no plan for a change ☠️ #TheseHollowGhosts #Petromasculinity

☠️ inept hands at the controls ☠️ the bathtubs overflow and no one turns off the tap ☠️ our bones hardening in memory

Patriarchy says: "Be small, be selfless, be silent." Capitalism says: "Be productive, be profitable, be perfect." Neoliberalism says: "Be your own boss, be your own brand, be your own village." The nervous system says: "Please let me rest." Nicola Jane Hobbs

Iowa was a lot to process last week. ​Storms: High winds, massive hail, and record-breaking tornadoes. ​Infrastructure: Flooded roads in disrepair and incoming energy shortages. ​The Reality: Recovery funds dismantled right when we need them most. W​e are not okay 💔#ClimateChange

Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. - Ghandi (seven deadly sins)

Punk culture has taught us that being moderate and restrained is often the wrong choice. When your intuition is telling you to leave moderation behind, let it go. Read & Riot

"Cause I don't wanna be a witness to this life, I want to be charged and convicted, ear lifted to her song like a bouquet of yes because my heart is a parachute that has never opened in time and I wanna fuck up that pattern, leave a hole where the cold comes in and fill it every day with her sun,

Challenge your government’s version of the truth, tell your own, and if you can, damn the consequences. Remember to turn on your CONFIDENCE. You do have power. Read & Riot

When deeds are faltering, we find words to inspire us. So add this to your checklist: remember to turn on your confidence. You do have power. Together, as a community or a movement, we can (and will) make miracles. Read & Riot Words. Deeds. Heroes.

You don't plant a seed unless you hope it will grow. - Not Too Late

Art creates connections and bonds that are not based on blood, nation, or territory.

SERVICED...with discontent ☠️ ELDERLY....fossilized vision ☠️ #TheseHollowGhosts #Petromasculinity

WE ARE NOT IN ORDINARY TIMES AND THE WOMEN RISING NOW? THEY'RE NOT HERE TO BE LIKED, THEY ARE HERE TO BE MEDICINE...

Perhaps the doom that is coming has been earned. No— that isn't fair. The doom has been here for a long time, and what's coming is our opportunity to adapt, to grow, to become more worthy of this world. - NOT A LOT OF REASONS A TO SING, BUT ENOUGH

The ultimate act of subversion is thus finding joy in a refusal to pay and obey, in an act of living by radically different values. It’s not an act of deprivation or austerity, it’s not a vow, it’s an act that reveals joy that transcends given boundaries. Read & Riot

We might not know what the sum of our voices and our actions will be, but we will be fucked if we ever stop being forward, moving forward. - A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry, Saymoukda "Refugenius" Vongsay

The "Sun-Eaters" from Project Hail Mary are already here ☀️👾 Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are basically a one-way mirror for heat. They let the light in & keep the burn. Time for a humanitarian Hail Mary. Who’s in? 👎️ #ReverseHailMary #ClimateAction #SaveTheHumanKind #GreenhouseGosling

You don't want to hear the story of my life, and anyway I don't want to tell it, I want to listen to the enormous waterfalls of the sun. And anyway it's the same old story a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive. Mostly, I want to be kind. - Mary Oliver, from Dogfish

In order for me to write poetry that isn't political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the war planes must be silent. - Marwan Makhoul

3 LITTLE QUESTIONS > 3. New discoveries were called the "New World" because: a. It was new to white people. b. The people in the "Old World" weren't good at naming things. c. The "world" only consists of places white people conquered. d. It wasn't. (Black AF History)

3 LITTLE QUESTIONS > 2. Who is responsible for slavery? a. Henry the Navigator. b. Nuno Tristão and Antão Gonçalves. c. White people. d. Every society had slavery. Plus, the Africans sold slaves, too. Why must you make everything about race? (Black AF History)

Negro Act of 1740, an intentional version of human subjugation...ingrained in the fabric of America...color-coded, never-ending, legally protected, enshrined system of human trafficking that extorted labor, intellect, talent in the most brutal ways. Born of fear & white supremacy— Black AF History

The stakes are as high as they could be. We may destroy ourselves and destroy the planet. So we need thinking that goes beyond existing boundaries, questions the status quo. We need political imagination...active and alive mind, a heart that’s in the right place, and good intentions. Read & Riot

☠️ inept hands at the controls ☠️ the bathtubs overflow and no one turns off the tap ☠️ our bones hardening in memory

Shake off pain from your shoulders, let it fall to the floor, and go march with your muses. Make an effort to speak in “the unlikeliest and rarest of tongues: the truth” (Daniel Berrigan) - Read & Riot

At one time, the Irish weren't considered white. Or Jews. Or Italians...accepted into the club when proven they'd join the oppression of people like them. At one time, Hispanic people were not white. Now there are "white Hispanics". It's a beautiful magic trick - Black AF History, Anila Quayyam Agha

[Whiteness] is the result of an insecurity that not only justifies man's inhumanity to man, it reinforces the subconscious doubt in one's own inferiority. Superiority does not require subjugation...but what on earth is whiteness? Whiteness is fear. - Black AF History Anila Quayyam Agha

Whiteness is not a social construct, nor is it as eternal or as confident as it seems. Whiteness is fleeting. It is a ghost; a shadow of an imaginary thing. - Black AF History Anila Quayyam Agha - Geometry of Light

Better policy happens when we look out for one another! We are all in this together, and we’re hopeful new leadership will choose a path that respects and protects our entire neighborhood. Strength is in unity. Anila Quayyam Agha - Geometry of Light

🌍 State of the Global Climate #WMO2025 2015-2025: Hottest 11yrs on record. 🔥 2025 hit 1.43°C above average, fueling extreme weather + record ice loss. Heed science don't hide it. 🌍📉

You can't control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. - Maya Angelou Anila Quayyam Agha - Geometry of Light

The powerful have their power. But we have something too – the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together. Davos, Switzerland, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney - 2026 Anila Quayyam Agha - Geometry of Light

No matter how you perform your acts of civil disobedience—rallying, occupying, painting, making music, or stealing and freeing animals from the zoo—go do it, tear the fabric of submission to pieces...The powerless do have power. Read & Riot Anila Quayyam Agha - Geometry of Light

Well, darkness has a hunger that's insatiable And lightness has a call that's hard to hear (Yeah) And I wrap my fear around me like a blanket I sailed my ship of safety 'til I sank it And I'm crawling on your shore (Closer I am to fine) - Indigo Girls Anila Quayyam Agha - Geometry of Light

At this stage, one of 2 things is possible: either the general population will take control of its own destiny + will concern itself with community interests, guided by values of solidarity + sympathy + concern for others; or, alternatively, there'll be no destiny for anyone to control. Read & Riot

😭💔 This chart breaks me (so much lost)...with slivers of hope. The work of LOWER BILLS + STRONGER COMMUNITY goes on! 🥰 While tools for energy savings were pulled away by the 1%, we can still choose to build local resilience + keep more money at home. NEW + UPDATED site resources below ⚡🔋

Tuck a bit extra away into the edges. Build the buffers now.

"But the fire can also turn everything to a new direction, a new and different life, one that has its own strengths and ways to shape the world." –  Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, The Faithful Gardener Appleby - Afraid of the Dark

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. MICHEL FOUCAULT

If your kid pulls their real name out of the sea of unknowing, or tries on the suit of a new gender, ecstatic that something finally fits, if your kid has the courage to love, you love them. Maybe, you love them more. - Meghan Falley Drive Here and Devastate Me Redhead and the Slaughter King

My partner, working the overnight shift at the homeless queer youth center, has to tell a child tonight that there is no room for her there, just like her parents did when she traded her football uniform for a prom dress. - Meghan Falley

"Ah," sighed the fir tree, "of all that rises and falls and rises again, it is love of new life, and love of that alone, that lasts and lasts. I am everywhere now. See how far my reach?" - Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, The Faithful Gardener

You could decide today your body is perfect and that'd be the story you told for the rest of your life. What peace can we make in the world if we can't first make peace with ourselves? - Drive Here and Devastate Me

Find your source of inspiration in muses who are walking through life elegantly, meaningfully, bravely, fighting beautifully and politely and without compromise. They’re not mythological figures or the product of fairy tales or miracles. They’re real. Look around you. Read & Riot

Every time you open the gate of your teeth to be the only living translator of the language from the lost village in your brain, success. - Meghan Falley Drive Here and Devastate Me Redhead and the Slaughter King

When men and women are loyal to ourselves and others, when we love justice, we understand fully the myriad ways in which lying diminishes and erodes the possibility of meaningful, caring connection, that it stands in the way of love.  – all about love, bell hooks

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me "Eat in the kitchen," Then. They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed,— I, too, am America.

❌👑MAR28

Without justice there can be no love. – all about love, bell hooks Buyku (Fishtrap Area), 2021 Etched aluminum road sign Gunybi Ganambarr