Community can be an antidote to isolation. Thinking of what I have to offer, here are some of my poems plus resources, people, podcasts that are helping me in hopes they may help you too.

I am wondering, what good is being self-reflective when I am terrified that our holy days will be nationalistically weaponized by the state of Israel’s expanding violence? While here on turtle island, Islamophobia and Antisemitism are both being effectively stoked in schools and beyond.

What does it mean that a number associated with the divine feminine became so “unlucky” that buildings continue to uncount their thirteenth floors? Keywords that come to mind: misogyny, monotheism, misinformation. 

In being over-accountable as a white person perceived as male and non-disabled, I’ve become quieter with a fear of dominating spaces. But to be too quiet is to be complicit, and in overcorrecting, my silence creates distance.

We become adept at identifying racism in tv or movies, in politics, history, maybe even in our family members or coworkers. But the closer the focus comes to ourselves, the blurrier the picture gets.

As I continue my own learning and unlearning, I am grateful for all kinds of maps. Literal maps and figurative ones. Maps that help us locate ourselves and find our way forward.

Of course there are extremists and bigots in every movement and every country, AND in the past five decades the largest and most powerful seats of anti-semitism and Islamophobia have resided squarely in the U.S. and U.K. 

I have spent my entire adult life learning about Palestine and Israel, and I am still a beginner. I have spent hours every day since 10/7 reading and studying, hoping I will find a perfect way to communicate. Is there a new way to say what I’ve already said?

When I explore my feelings of scarcity or worthiness, I know they are connected to capitalism, or more specifically the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy (bell hooks).

As a freelancer, my cashflow is often unpredictable, but for the past two years I have successfully redistributed 10% of my income. If I can do it, I hope it inspires others. Maybe this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for to participate in mutual aid and/or reparations!

Thank you Gibson for being a damn hero, and thank you to every adult out there is keeping kids alive every day.

Since 2007 or 2008, I've spelled my name lowercase. It began as the appeal of poetry and linguistic rebellion but grew into something more. I made the change when I became an amateur scholar of bell hooks’s works…

There are times I don’t know what I can give to change anything. I think maybe this is true for most of us. My friend David reminded me that if nothing else, I have some survival tools to share

When I grapple with attempts to tear trans children away from their affirming families, I understand that it is in the historical tradition, rooted in slavery and Jim Crow, of CPS targeting Black families.

As my heart and mind careens from violent act to violent act across the world, the doomsday clock is ticking and all I hear is unhealed pain. I am trying to remind myself that though this time feels more urgent and terrible than ever before, perhaps it is also the most beautiful and possible than ever before. How easy it is to be afraid as humans, how easy it is for that fear to drive us. 

Jewish history in Amsterdam is hundreds of years old, beginning with communities of Sephardic Jews pushed out of Spain and Portugal in the late 1500s and early 1600s. They settled in Amsterdam and built one of the world’s largest synagogues in 1675.

In truth, I’ve thought about doing this for a long time, but I always stopped myself short, thinking “how could I be so important as to warrant a newsletter?”