An essay with resources is coming but here are early morning 💔feels seeing ministry & scholar colleagues (intentionally) generate AI images the week news breaks we’re in “water bankruptcy”. AI can help, harm, or kill & we should be mindful in its use like we are with salt, UV light, or knives.

Folks are feeling a discomfort they can’t place re: Jelly Roll’s Grammy speech so I wrote a Substack to explan how that discomfort or ick is an emotional, energetic, & body response to subtle Christian religious violence you sense but have not been taught to see. open.substack.com/pub/aliciatc...

As some who’s closely studied Christian religious violence and trauma I have some specific concerns about Jelly Roll apart from his 💩 politics. In a religiously diverse country, Christians undoubtedly have religious privilege & can operate in supremacy. Let me explain how this speech did just that

PSA: Be nice—some of us have hormone change I woke up in a sweat & don’t know if I need to blame perimenopause, fibromyalgia, or my long covid dysautonomia bc it’s 33 degrees outside, snow is on the ground, my thermostat is on 62, & my ceiling & bedside fans are on. This don’t make no damn sense 😂

Sometimes I wish folks knew that a big part of having autism is either laughing at yourself or cringing in embarrassment because you realized that you misunderstood a joke or comment somewhere between a minute and literal years after it was said. We smart as hell but be late to the party often 😂

Oh nooo, the liars lied about the incentives professional terrorists would get for their work trafficking humans, breaking families apart, and being murderous, abusive, and violent. 😱 *stares at camera* tone: sarcastic

When I say we all must do what we can as we can to the best of our abilities for our liberation & flourishing I mean me, you, & even Bad Bunny. Benito took his historic win to say #ICEOut, call us to solidarity & love to counter hate, & edify immigrants, Latinos, & all moving thru/with grief.

I know this moment feels overwhelming so I made a quick video to remind us of some truths that includes a brief breathing exercise at the end. www.instagram.com/reel/DUJEVnC...

When I’m intense & have big energy over a thing the motivation behind it is that I love us for real & truly want us to flourish, live, & not die.

I spent some time reflecting on the shortcomings that can be present in activism done without intention & care for my latest Substack. Read more here: aliciatcrosby.substack.com/p/fleshing-o...

I woke up early & used my time to research social strategy tools & write a mini missive on a friend’s socials about the danger in (overconsumption of) AI. Let me tell y’all I am here today by the grace of God & the power of the people.

It’s lovely that some of you are finding your way into deeper waters of resistance work. Welcome! That said, be mindful that some folks aren’t new to this—we’ve been here for decades & years. We’ve developed knowledge, praxis, and perspective that’s been hard earned thru dedication, trial, & time.

FREE 📚 alert: I love free things and learning so I’m super grateful for the beloveds from @versobooks.bsky.social and @haymarketbooks.org for helping us grow in understanding ICE and this moment by sharing FREE books. Download them via this link: lithub.com/what-to-read...

I stomped through snow to take a photo of this beautiful female northern cardinal for you. I hope you like it.❤️ #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

While blessing people is one of my favorite things to do, I’m committed to publicly cursing the wicked more this year. Like blessing, curses are an invocation inviting energy connect with a person.

Stop asking who will lead or save us. Stop demanding labor from those who’ve worked for our freedom for decades & years. There’s no singular leader who will march us out of tyranny. Liberation has always been a leaderfull, group effort…

White women do stuff like craft for change or take on empty performative actions (ex. wearing pink hats or pins) bc they aren’t in relationship with people impacted state violence, brutality, or terror.

Is anyone else weirded out by the people asking white folks shit like “how’s your Black experience” or “how’s it feel to be Black”?

Nothing happening in this moment is new…it’s just new to white folks whose solidarities have been fickle & disappear when the political climate is safe & favorable for their whiteness. Fascism strips away safety so folks are genuinely shocked bc what has long happened to us is now happening to them.

I wonder if people realize how absurd it sounds to say that ICE would be better if they had proper training. Do they think training help them kidnap, detain, and disappear people more respectfully?

Beloveds, no matter who you are, where you are, or how you feel you have something to give this moment, movement, & resistance. Some can be in the streets but others need to do things like pray or send blessings, encouragement, or funds from bed bc that’s all their bodies or circumstances can allow.

ICE just executed a legal observer in Minneapolis. Several ICE agents jumped, beat, & shot him while he was on the ground. Bear witness & hold presence in the ways your spirit, mind, & body can manage as this is indefensible, despicable, & wicked in ways we lack the ability to describe.

Beloveds in Minneapolis & St. Paul - I’m holding you close to my heart & want to do so with greater intention. If/as you have capacity, feel free to let me know the things you & your beloveds need prayer or blessings for.

With tons of us being under winter storm advisories, I wanted to give a gentle reminder for disabled and chronically ill folks to call your utility service providers.

Soooo I finally started my substack! Please subscribe and support this new iteration of my work! open.substack.com/pub/aliciatc...

I really hope some of y’all release your desire for decorum & order because revolution and relief from fascism won’t come without disruptive resistance & you need to deal with that.

Dear neighbor, I’m joining faith leaders, union representatives and community members who are calling for a Day of Truth and Freedom on Friday, January 23, 2026. This will be a general strike in Minnesota (no work, school, or shopping) in support of our immigrant neighbors. 1/

The disruption of Cities Church where a pastor works for ICE is a holy embodiment of 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 which tells us the weapons we fight with aren’t just physical but spiritual.

While you can argue that MAGA, Christian Nationalists, the far-right, etc aren’t Christ-like or don’t follow Jesus, you can’t say they aren’t Christian bc they are. They are contemporary interations of their colonizer, enslaver, Crusader forefathers…

It’s ok to quiet yourself as you feel your rage or grief or your questioning WTF is happening in the world. There’s enough noise present right now so it’s ok if you need fo make room to contemplate how you feel. It’s ok to make space for silence.

If what is happening in Venezuela feels assaultive & violating know that you aren’t imagining things. What we are witnessing is what happens when assault, violation, & abuse are acted out on a global stage & millions are held captive in literal and metaphorical ways against their desire or consent.

I’m just here sitting in disbelief that that orange man and his minions kidnapped a sitting president and First Lady. Like that really just happened and they’re acting like we’re business as usual. All I can think is WTF

In 2026, I hope people grow in their understandings of what is plausible, possible, & prudent in their justice seeking. Rallies/protests have their place but we know things suck & need to move beyond that.

I know that some folks are shocked seeing what the US is doing in Venezuela esp hearing about the detaining of another nation’s leader but this is bc how we’ve been taught history and how to interrogate current events is intentionally trash.

After a season where we’ve spoken about the importance & health benefits of rest & the beauty & power present in different body types, it’s concerning to see so many ads for productivity & weight loss tools. I lost count of the commercials I’ve seen feat. glp-1 meds, programs, or beds chasing ppl.

I know you’ll likely see tons of posts encouraging you to deep clean, set goals, and do other things before the new year and while I think these things are important, 2025 has left so many of us with little to no capacity.

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.

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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 🫠