Sublime

Send your missives into the network to be reproduced. Let your symbols be adopted and adapted and transmitted broadly into the new culture we’re building together.

I like how cultural historian Thomas Berry put it when he said “We are in between stories.” The Old Stories, as I see them, include those scripted by colonialism, capitalism, ableism, white supremacy, nationalism, and cis-heteropatriarchy. All require us to believe in the inherent, God-given superiority of some groups over others. They include mast

To be a witch (and therefore dangerous in the eyes of the Church) is to acknowledge the sacred within us, here in our own bodies and the living earth, the connection we all have to the divine. To the witch, or any woman in tune with the natural world, everything is part of a cycle, which is in contrast to much religious doctrine that suggests that

Maria Popova, who writes the popular site The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), spends her days reading old books and essays. She’s passionate about finding ideas, beauty, and wisdom in these texts and then connecting them in her own unique conversation with the world.

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Through the movement’s heyday, and as the mainstream period of the civil rights era waned, Highlander continued. From the 1970s onward, they organized against strip mining, toxic dumping, and pollution, advocating for workers, including the undocumented. Threats came from the state over the years, but Highlander lived on, even after Horton’s death