I know that right now the world feels hard, unjust, and painful. But I also know that this world is filled with beauty, art, love, opportunity, community, and laughter. I have faith in humanity and in our ability to build a more just and equitable future.
The most important thing we can do at this moment is to not abandon each other. Yet like many of you, I feel conflicted and WANT to turn inward and isolate. Although this may be what I want, it’s certainly not what I need at this moment. I need to be in community with y’all. We need each other to sustain ourselves in this moment.
Solidarity is stronger than these systems of power. We fight racism with solidarity. We fight classism with solidarity. We fight homophobia and transphobia with solidarity. We fight ableism with solidarity. If we want to survive what’s coming we can only do that with each other.
Writing has always helped me put my thoughts into words and process how I’m feeling. Writing has pushed me to think about how I can show up as my best self even and especially in the most difficult moments. I repeatedly return to this quote by Mona Eltahawy: “I believe it’s the writer’s job to tell society what it pretends it doesn’t know.”
I write to wonder and imagine new ways of living, being, and thinking. I write to transform systems and in doing so transform myself.
So I decided to offer Sister Solidarity: A 4-week self-paced writing intensive. Over four weeks, we will work individually and collectively to reflect on our writing prompts and somatic activities.
These prompts will push you to question supremacy in your life and the world around you. They will challenge you while nurturing all that is soft and beautiful, waiting to be birthed.
Join us as we write to liberate and fortify ourselves! Sign up here. Enrollment closes on December 31st.
If you’ve never had the opportunity to work with my writing prompts, here are a few prompts from a program I ran in 2020 to get a sense of what you will experience in Sister Solidarity 2025:
In an unjust world, it is easy for some of us to be invisible during a crisis. Yet we know many of us have lived in isolation before this moment and have never been allowed to be fully seen.
Questions for writing and reflection:
1. What does it feel like in your body to know that we are leaving folks behind?
2. In what ways have you been lured by the oppressor? What have you lost?
3. What does it mean to rely on folks that do not look like you?
If we allow them to, oppressive systems and the folks that perpetuate them will take all that is worthy, beautiful, and glorious in us away.
But won’t let them.
Questions for writing and reflection:
1. How do you remember all that is beautiful, worthy, and glorious about yourself?
2. How have you been socialized to believe in limitations?
3. How do you demand justice for yourself?
If you spend time with these prompts, I would love to know what comes up for you!
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