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# screaming to choose life
- URL: https://kolamcreativecollective.com/posts/screaming-to-choose-life/
- Published: 2025-06-16T01:36:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-17T22:44:22.000Z
- Author: Kadir
- Tags: 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](https://www.alexispauline.com/about)' edited anthology, and the radical care it takes to choose life and birth my artist self/free creative expression.

I also seed a project that I'm working on behind the scenes, to create a facilitated group art/writing space where we can get curious about our own artistic processes, especially when we struggle to identify with the 'artist' label. More on that soon!

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Thank you for listening and the kind words y'all send me through text messages and emails! It's so cool to learn about how this format is landing for you and to continue this vocal exploration.

**Links from this episode:**

- Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, Edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai’a Williams — [book](https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product%5Fdetail&p=746), [excerpt](https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/mothering)
- Great Blue Heron baby sounds (you might have to turn up your sound to hear), and up close photos from the lagoon of a heron that I took: <https://www.are.na/kolam-creative-collective/great-blue-heron>

I leave you with the duck mama and babies, happy Cancer season! ♋ 🌊 🎆

![Five baby ducks huddle next to mama duck standing tall by a mossy lagoon on the gravely grassy shore](https://storage.ghost.io/c/76/f3/76f37869-a6cb-40d2-9a71-3957cacb536a/content/images/2025/06/PXL_20250612_012657699.jpg)

Baby ducks and mama duck by mossy lagoon, photo by Kadir

See you next week <3