Decolonial feminist work begins where we are—in all the spaces we occupy. It cannot stay confined to texts we read/write. It must expose and heal colonial patterns of power and logics of fragmentation—inviting us into new ways of sensemaking, unmaking, remaking—and building coalitions.

Mamdani stayed focused on affordability and also did not double back on his other positions and statements.

These moments are filled with such potentiality—making a syllabus; researching to find and then inviting the right person to teach a class. The notes being creativity, boldness, world-making.

I have never shaken my head (in disbelief, refusal to accept) as many times in Zoom meetings as I have today.

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." — Reinhold Niebuhr

The Human Resources dept in an organization is oriented ideally to employee well-being & empowerment. There is a cost to moving towards an org culture that does not value these aspects & sees HR practices as outsourceable instead of integrated with the soul of an organization.

The loudest objections to the cutting of 1,700 trees to build a "Sadhugram" for the Kumbh Mela in Nashik should come from the sadhus themselves—who would the sadhus have learned from in the absence of the forests of old? #trees #spirituality #kumbh

Rainbow in the wake of a storm... Some days, we can see more clearly how the earth is busy creating magic and beauty.

Generated AI plants are thriving online, with fake "seeds" selling on Amazon - people gravitating to impossible flora while real plants vanish. We're enchanted with simulacra as actual biodiversity disappears. @giovannialoi.bsky.social cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/02...

The video recording of "The Borderlands Epistemology of the Goddess in South Asia," my April 5 talk at The Once and Future Goddesses conference presented by OPUS Archives and Research Center, is now available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERa...

Come and join me for my upcoming online class at Morbid Anatomy called The Secret Heart of Dreams. Starts April 30. Register at www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/th...

On Substack: Sensing the Matrix and the Void Matters open.substack.com/pub/monicamo...

I will be presenting "Resurrecting Stories of Care, Reciprocity, and Interconnection: Decolonial and Indigenous Dialogues on Technology" at the 2025 Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Conference in Tucson as well as reading my poems in honor of Patricia Monaghan on the opening evening.

The work of re-enchanting the euroamerican academy cannot happen without sincerely engaging with the unfinished task of decolonizing it; the work of re-enchanting ourselves cannot happen without sincerely engaging with the unfinished task of decolonizing ourselves.

I will be here, talking about the Borderlands Epistemology of the Goddess in South Asia: www.opusarchives.org/events/the-g... My session is in the afternoon of Saturday, April 5. In-person or livestream attendance (but if you are able to, please come in person).

New post 📖 monicamody.substack.com

Found myself balking at the throughline of conformity and the favoring of centralized governance over emergent self-organization that lay in the first two "Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti" books. My kind of sci-fi would show us a path out of the fears that mire present-day sociological phenomena.

New post: monicamody.substack.com

"Online learning not a green panacea"—besides, the psychosocial costs of online learning in higher ed spaces should always be considered alongside technology-centric education's claim to reduce the carbon footprint. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/online-...

Join me for a class that engages perspectives on dreams and dreaming from earth-based and indigenous systems of wisdom. Runs April 30-May 21. Taught on Zoom, hosted by Morbid Anatomy. www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/the-...

"Where We Might Go in Lieu of Posthumanism: Building Indigenous and Decolonial Epistemologies"—my presentation at Journey Week 2024, Pacifica Graduate Institute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5Q...

When those silent (silenced) in the stories that were told about them begin to tell their stories—when we learn that they had/have their own stories—the shifting of perspective sets something right in us. John Keene’s “Rivers” imagines Huck Finn’s Jim. www.vice.com/en/article/z...

It's not my problem that you can't place me, my work, and aesthetics—that you have trouble categorizing these—that I mess up your borders. No. Perhaps it's your borders that are the problem.

The story of how #MermaidsInTheMoonlight became #NilavoyilMeenmathar has some magic and serendipity behind it, and so I wrote an essay on my experience of being translated into my mother tongue. I hope you'll read it, and pick up the book in either Tamil or English! scroll.in/article/1064...

Recommend. Mónica Guzmán's podcast about how to "disagree about politics without losing heart." braverangels.org/abraverway/

New Substack Drop. monicamody.substack.com/p/what-the-s...

Success must have a spiritual basis, if it is to count as success—not a human one.

True care springs from good boundaries.

Source yourself from source—not from any ideology.

Remember—ancestors are at your back and in your mouth.

Just uploaded my paper and poem sequence "When Yoginis Appear With Animals: Animistic Relational Elements and the Non-Dual Matrix," published in Tarka Journal Vol. 7. www.academia.edu/115505635/Wh...

Scholarly/pedagogical work can periodically pull us into a cave. How do we reattune, reconnect, heed again the living dance of the world?

Great essay from Jennifer Hurley: "What We Lose When We Move Education Online" The real problem with online education is that "it feels more like a performance than an experience," it is “transactional” rather than relational. medium.com/ed-tech-talk...

Us humans with our colonized imaginations think it a credible solution to capture and subdue wild animals and take them far from their homes. Let's call on the Karnataka govt to stop its capture of wild elephants, who are not rogues. From Gana Kedlaya. www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/wildlif...

Wild Fin is now available from the Weavers Press bookshop (and soon elsewhere)! Thank you for helping make this beautiful book, Moazzam Sheikh and Amna Ali, and for the kind blurbs @cshunter.bsky.social, Maw Shein Win, and Divya Victor. *** drmonicamody.com/wild-fin.html weaverspress.com/bookshop

Delighted to announce the imminent arrival of Wild Fin, my new poetry collection from Weavers Press! The book is now available for pre-orders via weaverspress.com/bookshop. The art featured on the cover is a detail from SF artist Anne Marguerite Herbst's magnificent painting, "Lighthouse Present."

Sometimes you show trust to people until they show you you shouldn't.

Beautiful discussion by Viet Thanh Nguyen about expansive solidarity and how, frozen as identity, this becomes limited solidarity and limited politics. The idea that "we" can all be included under diversity—when we were constituted by racist violence—traps us in history. youtu.be/CePIdZ5Rnro?...

Your life, remember, needs to make sense only to spirit. Here is to the next version of you. As we enter a new year, a mineral year on the Dagara wheel, may you defy any limitations placed upon the expression of your soul story.

Healing our relationship to giving and receiving must come out of our love for the Earth—being loved by the Earth, remembering in our bones that we are loved by the Earth—and cannot be based on contexts of capitalism. Our belonging comes from simple knowing—sahaja.

Different bodies have different experiences of the world. A wonderful book.

Substack alert: "Body Matters." monicamody.substack.com

There is an incongruence when institutions that talk about decolonization and indigenous approaches as central to their work set up usurious timelines. How do we divest from colonial constructs of time, how do we decolonize time?

Stop using non-western and non-white voices tokenistically. Does your addition of these voices transform your imagination, thinking, and practice, or is it checking off a box? Do you change when you come in contact with their intellectual and creative contributions?

An important article about the memory culture in Europe that constructs the Holocaust as a singularity. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

Go where your fire is respected.

A 'no' is a complete sentence. Respecting boundaries other women set is real feminism.

A prayer that we may learn from and with you - mostly that we may let ourselves be awed in your presence. Not meddle, nor experiment with, nor extract what you know, placing our own ends and curiosity before your dignity and sensuous, sentient participation.  #monarchs #morethanhumanworlds #nature