sun days in the rain
Hi friends, I'm at ch'alitch/Sechelt, place of the shíshálh Nation https://shishalh.com/, on Coast Salish land and waters for a few days before returning home. I've been enjoying doing these podcast episodes the past few weeks, and have made an option for
sun days in the rain
Hi friends! This week through my voice I talk about the practice of observing bird kin around me on unceded Coast Salish land, the Great Blue Heron habitat near where I am, the idea of revolutionary mothering seeded through Alexis Pauline Gumbs' edited anthology, and the radical care it
sun days in the rain
Hello friends! Happy Pride Month! Another audio episode this week while I am on Coast Salish land, city of vancouver. I spend the bulk of this episode gushing about what it's felt like to be here with the ocean, but I also talk about celebrating Pride month on
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Hello friends, This week's dispatch is in audio form! In the future, I'm hoping to provide transcription text for recordings. This week I talk about getting re-enchanted with my life as the moon renews over in ♊ Gemini. I explore my voice and creative expression and how
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Hello friends, May 9 2025: The gibbous moon is aglow against my window as I sit down to write this. I have been catching up on the goings on in Kashmir and the recent escalation in the region between India and Pakistan. Last night, I was in a cab ride
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In this post I share links to Dalit, Adivasi and caste-oppressed artists, movement organizations, activists and writers I've been following and reading in the last few years. If you are new to any of these people or organizations, please subscribe to, support and follow their work directly.
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Hello friends, Happy Dalit History Month, and advanced Bhim Jayanti! (Babasaheb Ambedkar's birthday is on April 13) I'm caste-privileged, and I wanted to write to you this week some snippets from my own story of actively interrogating my own and my ancestors' role in the
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Hello friends, This week, I welcome folks who were subscribed to my now archived creative writing newsletter on substack that I started years ago and published very little in. Thank you for sticking with me, and welcome 🌈 A week ago I went to the aquarium in Toronto for the first
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(citation: title phrase borrowed from Murray Bookchin's Utopia not futurism lecture, 1978) Hello friends, How are you this eclipse week? I am wrapping up a Creative writing through reading class I've been taking, and preparing for a short workshop I'm offering on Neurodiversity at
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Hello friends, Turns out we share a love of the TV show Scandal, more than one of you reached out to me to tell me you loved it too! I remember watching it for the first time, in February 2014 when I had first arrived in Turtle Island from Chennai,
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I went on vacation to Málaga with my partner for ten days earlier this month. On moonlit nights, I walked along the beach shores. I listened to the Mediterranean foam and gush, entranced. I miss the sounds of the ocean when I'm in my lake-surrounded-city-dwelling. The beaches were
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and hello, it's been too long! Hello friends, Happy Lunar new year! (It was on Jan 29 2025). Let us welcome the year of Yin Wood Snake (citation: Daria, Red Rabbit Astrology, Yin Wood Snake forecast). How are you? I’ve been grateful for the news of the