People who ask “why do you always make everything about race” stay telling on themselves and how they’re racialized. Cause clearly they don’t have an embodied or relational understanding of how race has been and is still used as a weaponized tool for displacement, disenfranchisement, and targeting.

Wishing all my Jewish kin who observe a happy, blessed 8th night 💛

Vacation responder is on so work is officially done until 2026. 2025 has been a sweet and sour year with highs like & my beloveds all over the country & seeing dolphins in the ocean & lows including not being able to walk or see clearly for months, medical racism & gaslighting, & multiple surgeries.

“Asking what people mean & why they use the language they do to describe things is really important. Too often people push for universalizing language/linguistic purity, esp around matters of justice, shaming others using other words. Context shapes speech & you had to learn too.” - me circa 2023

Some days all you can say to others is I know things suck right now and even though I’m struggling with my own stuff, I care and I haven’t forgotten about you.

Sometimes I gotta remind myself that even in the best of times demanding ideological & ethical purity sets us up to lose so we REALLY don’t have time for it under fascism. We can’t demand perfect alignment & forget that solidarity & strategic partnership are options.

There’s so much misinformation surrounding Covid that people really don’t understand how this virus functions. We are still in a pandemic. Covid is still here.

I may be in the minority but I’m really excited to turn 40 next year. Aging is weird & hard but it’s really beautiful to me. I smile at my grey hairs & pray I get to see myself with a head full of them.

I’m so grateful that so many more folks are observing World AIDS Day and are committed to reducing stigma. I remember being a 90s kid and was afraid to tell folks how my paternal grandma died and not knowing how my godbrother passed until adulthood.

Thanksgiving is such a weird day. It’s the one non-Christian specific holiday many people have off of work, upholds the myth of native-pilgrim connection and invisiblizes the (ongoing) reality of Indigenous genocides on Turtle Island.

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I hope this moment we find ourselves in pushes more of us to embrace abolition and fight for our collective freedom. I hope folks see that policing and militarization don’t keep us safe - we do.

I hear folks talking about the Epstein emails and that orange man felating Clinton and tbh IDGAF. You know why? Because what adults consent to sexually with each other isn’t my business.

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

Having to reckon with the reality that people you love don’t really fck with you like that is painful & leaves some of us feeling like our hearts are splintered. Cry, cuss, or feel your feels & know it’ll be ok.

📢: Protection of marriage equality does not equal the protection of all LGBTQIA+ people. It, for now, protects same sex, cis married couples. It doesn’t protect trans & nonbinary kin who are targeted & under multiple threats incl. denial of healthcare…

I know folks are saying it for giggles & likes but stop saying that those who voted against your interests or for a candidate you don’t like should move South. You don’t get to push folks you don’t like out & the South isn’t a dumping ground.

As a person who never got to trick or treat & celebrate Halloween as a kid, it gives me so much joy to hand out treats. Takis were by far the hit of the night but them kids cleaned us out of almost everything. We were tired so we threw on old PJs & went as big bones 😂. Our dog just went as cute lol

There’s nothing quite like trolling ass internet strangers talking greasy that makes me want call folks knuckle dragging bitches more often. Don’t let my commitment to rhetorical and corporeal nonviolence fool you. I do my inner work to move with grace but that’s not always my first draft.

2025 Surgery #3 is done. I know healthcare is a barrier but getting medical treatments is an act of care if you can manage it. S/o to my amazing eye health team & surgeons for helping me get relief.

In this world where some folks mercilessly wage violence and war, choose to be somebody’s peace. Absolutely give oppressors good trouble and holy hell but choose to be a soft place where those you love can catch their breath and get the moments of respite they need.

The deployment of tear gas throughout the Chicago area is a growing health concern. ICE is deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods, near children, playgrounds, stores, etc. What are the health implications on our communities?

Fun fact: If I don’t cuss around you, you’re not getting my most authentic self. It’s not bc I think cussing itself is essential but bc I believe in using the full range of my vocabulary in speech. Sometimes I need to be emphatic or colloquial and that means using a word some think is profane.

A blessed coming out day to all. Here’s your annual reminder that I’m a queer AF pansexual who found deep & joy filled love with my wife despite not coming out publicly until I was 30. Part of what’s so dope about what we have is we hold each other whole. #comingoutday

It’s making my heart so full to see folks taking to the streets and standing against fascism. As you take action make sure you remember to mask up 😷! Not only will this help keep you safe from COVID, the flu, & other illnesses, masking is a surveillance deterrent.

May God and every sacred source that help lift up your spirit and your head be with you. May we honor the gifts and grit our ancestors & elders gave to equip us for what is here and what all may come our way.

Wear a mask, vaccinate, take precautions. You don’t want navigating long covid or its 200+ symptoms like my chronic fatigue syndrome to be your reality. I wouldn’t wish this on the devil.

Shana Tova to my beloved Jewish kin! Wishing blessings and goodness for you all.

Is it bad that I kinda wish the rapture these people want would come so that the rest of us could be left in peace? Cause they’ve already created an apocalyptic hellscape and put us into climate collapse so if those who think they’re getting scooped up dip, the rest of us and the earth can heal.

If your revolutionary and resistance work isn’t accessible, your understanding of liberation is lacking. We all can’t leave or be outside or even divest at times because some of our literal survival is linked to spaces, services, or things non-disabled folks have different relationships to.

S/o to the healthcare professionals who get telehealth is an accessibility tool. I’ve been able to see my therapist, new primary, and a specialist from bed which helps me be present because it doesn’t trigger my chronic fatigue.

Hey loves - we’re $1225 away from our goal. If you have the means, please share and if you don’t, feel free to amplify this ask in your communities!

A community member had their gas cut off bc of having to manage things like medical expenses & needs aid getting it turned on. They literally can’t do things like cook rn & need $1500 to pay the bill. Share what you can on my aliciatcrosby CA/Vmo with the tag mutual aid to help.

Me wanting collective liberation for all **explicitly** means I do not want anyone bound - literally and metaphorically. I don’t want anyone living under the specter of terror or fear and work for a world shaped by accessibility, agency, accountability, and honor.

Just because we don't celebrate a death, doesn't mean we have to grieve. There are so many more emotions accessible to us and there's space for us to feel, acknowledge, and honor them right now.

I hope gentleness finds you. I hope that you encounter or make space where you can experience a bit of tenderness that helps alleviate any weariness you have because you’ve strained under the heavy things in this world. Even if just for a moment, may something soft be a balm for your aching soul.

Imma put this out there so folks can join their energy to mine via prayer, intention setting, manifestation work, & more: I need folk willing to be patrons, benefactors, & resourceful midwives for me & my work. Who will share what they’ve got to help me bring the things I dream of into this world.

It’s interesting to see what folks choose to talk about while we’re staring fascism in the face. I don’t have but so much to give but with what I do have, imma just go love folks tangibly and well.

Live action of me every morning and after naps because of my long covid, CFS/ME, & fibromyalgia 🙃😂💩

Now is the time to remember that our struggles and our liberations are intertwined. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we can do the work to form communities that fight back, resist, & create new things to sustain us all.

Give what you can to liberation & to those who’ve risked so much for so long.

I believe in holding things in this life with an open heart & open hands which helps me move with intent, in love. So know that it’s with deep intent and abundant love that I share this is my last week on the @xians4palestine.bsky.social National leadership team. See 📷 for a preview of what’s ahead

One of the things I believe in is telling folks you’re proud of them and you are celebrating their accomplishments, their joy, & the goodness they bring into the world. I try to tell folks that I’m proud of what I witness because everyone deserves to feel seen & delighted in.

It should not be a scandal to say that people should not starve. Their age, religion, ethnicity, or any other facet of identity does not matter. People should not starve. People should not starve.

Imagine being entrusted to talk to kids & telling them “you deserve to die”. Despite the trash Jackie Hill Perry yaps, *JESUS* says there is an abundant, rich, & satisfying life he hopes we have because of his sacrifices (John 10).

On this US American Independence Day where so many are bound, beat down, & oppressed we need to ask what can and will we commit to us all getting free. Not on some esoteric shit but for real.

A whole lotta nope on this raggedy lil holiday lolol

As Pride month comes to an end I find myself holding bittersweet feelings. Though I managed to make it to Pride in 2023 when people were still socially distancing and widely masking, I grieve not being able to be out there anymore.

Said this a year ago today. Still me. Still true.