Breath of Hope: Art Making for the Revolution
What is hope in these violent times? This is the prompt I explored with a kindred friend early on in October. When I was in a crash course to educate myself on the ongoing genocide being carried out against Palestine. With awareness that it was my whiteness that privileged me from even learning about Palestine before then. And recognition of the harmful cost of my privileged ignorance.
Honoring Grief: Art Making for the Revolution
So many of us do not have support to relate to grief. it can feel unbearable. What can a healing, supported pathway of grieving look like?
Be in Community: Weekly Art Making for the Revolution
As we witness the ongoing genocides, many are feeling isolated, defeated, and alone. Colonization and white supremacy thrive on our isolation. How can we find and engage with liberatory, mutually reciprocal community - and what messaging blocks us from doing so?
Liberatory Anger: Weekly Art Making for the Revolution
Throughout the last few months I have witnessed escalated policing of the expression of liberatory anger within multiple communities. There has been tone policing, oppressive and racist stereotypes, and listening only to those who use the dominant privileged ways of speaking (such as "nice", "calm", "fair", or perceived as "peaceful" or "logical and rational").
Engaged Spirituality: Weekly Art Making for the Revolution
As we continue trying to live through this time of multiple genocides, climate crisis, and the destructiveness of imperialism, I've been reflecting a lot on spirituality and spiritual practices. Specifically what role spiritual practices, leaders, and community can take during this time to help us on the path of liberation. As well as the harmful role I more often see it taking instead.
Ancestors: Weekly Art Making for the Revolution
Growing up I heard very little about my ancestors. We are white, and my family taught me that we are Irish, French Canadien, and Blackfeet. We had a family tree that that no one ever talked about. The only stories told involved the living - we rarely spoke of or acknowledged the dead. And even then it was only a sentence or two, and one generation back.
New Year, New Practice: Weekly HSP Healing Arts Prompt
As this year closes, we are living through profound violence and suffering in this world. Many of us feel heart-broken, enraged, and helpless witnessing the multiple genocides around the world. Additionally, the devastation of colonization, imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and the resulting climate change, is affecting everyone.