hi there!

Popping into your inbox today with a few beloveds from around the internet, in this post holiday flow —

• ICYMI: our reading list for a revolutionary summer
• Cody Cook Parrott’s Landscapes: “This is how I write. I carve out time and I protect it. I invite you to do the same.”
• Brandi Cheyenne Harper’s Knitting as a Love Language: “That we are inextinguishable. That our bodies are precious. That the books we make, the books we read, the books we collect are sacred artifacts nourishing us through the generations.”
• Ayana Zaire Cotton’s Treehouse: “Beyond survival and toward safety.”
• Toi Smith’s the Deepening: “Consider this an opportunity to bridge the gap between individual and collective understanding, deepening our connection to the material and each other.”
• Prentis Hemphill’s Why Feel: “a Transformational Character [is] a person committed to healing your lineage and transforming the systems and communities you are a part of.”
• Rebekah Taussig on disability: “I will remember the spectacular collision of two incongruent narratives – how the spectacular display of confetti-burst felt like a tiny celebration of a disabled mom and her son existing out here.”
• Khadija Muhaisen Dajani on qaher: “It is when you take anger, place it on a low fire, add injustice, oppression, racism, dehumanization to it, and leave it to cook slowly for a century.”
• Robina Khalid on birth: “labor weaves through all of these parts, even and especially the crevices the light doesn’t touch.”
• Aleah Black on conflict: “How can we trust each other if we don’t practice repair?”
• Jessica Dore on grief and Fariha Róisín on grief and adrienne maree brown with Hala Alyan on grief​
• ​mutual aid, mutual aid, (choose your own) mutual aid
• “tender saves” credit to Jess Bailey​

until next time,