How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir
A lot of this navigating is about how to exist within capitalism in a feminine and a feminist way.
Marlee Grace • How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care
So I thought about all the things she’d told me over the phone, I said to the room, and I thought about her work that I couldn’t possibly comprehend, about the actual creative work she had done. All that delicate, handmade programming she did into the dead of night to switch one platform to another on some critical company deadline, how outside of
... See moreAmanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
As someone working in and seeking systems change, I can’t help but witness the clinging in how I relate to the ecological, social, and spiritual crises that we are entangled in. I cling to the despair that these specific systems we need are stuck and broken. I am attached to the contracted urgency of the problems that must be solved. I become so ob... See more
Harmonizing the Body Electric
Each of those women has begun to live from her imagination. Here’s how: Each honored her own discontent. She did not dismiss it, bury it, deflect it, deny it, blame it on someone else, or tell herself to shut up and be grateful. She heard her Knowing whisper “Not this,” and she admitted to herself that she heard it. She sat with it for a while. The
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