Ru-Lee Story

A new tattoo on a person's leg. It shows wildflowers growing from the tip of a spoon handle, with a ribbon reading "queer cripple joy" twining around it.

A new tattoo on a person's leg. It shows wildflowers growing from the tip of a spoon handle, with a ribbon reading "queer cripple joy" twining around it.

You cannot take my joy from me. I will fight the injustices. I will lament the trauma and heartbreak. But I will also _live._ #queerjoy #transgender #cripplejoy #disabled

26.02.2025 21:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A handwritten poem which reads: "How vast is the chasm in their souls to convince them power can fill it? Are they yet human enough to question themselves, or do they outrun the doubt by forever leaping to the next travesty? I cannot feel empathy, barely even pity, for I have never thought to unbreak myself by breaking others. But I do sometimes wonder where is their Jacob Marley to warn them of the weight of their chains?"

I've been trying to write tiny poems every day since the inauguration. Here's today's. #poetry #writingisresistance

20.02.2025 20:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A nonbinary human stands in front of a hotel room mirror taking a selfie. They are wearing a Lovers tarot shirt with illustrated skeletons and a long purple cape with a hood.

Going full witchy mode for my on-campus days at @iliff.edu! #witchcraft #unitarianuniversalist

10.02.2025 21:49 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul."
1866, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, woman of color, prolific author, & Unitarian and AME, speaking on intersectionality.

08.02.2025 19:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No matter what the feds say, it is still #BlackHistoryMonth and you should materially support Black artists, thinkers, activists, content creators, businesses, etc, extra - even more than before, one would argue, as they are trying to erase our relevance and history.

#Blacksky drop your links!

05.02.2025 22:54 — 👍 204    🔁 55    💬 6    📌 0

Text reads: Black history, Justice, Collective Liberation - the monthly theme for February at First U.

Justice depends on remembering. When we hold onto truth, we dismantle oppression—one deliberate act at a time.

#BlackHistoryMonth #UnitarianUniversalist

02.02.2025 17:15 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A circular tarot card from the Symdala Tarot by Jenniger Cooper Steidley. The card is 7 of Wands, and it is blue with symbols of mountains, shoes, grass, waves, and flames.

#Tarot wisdom: 7 of Wands tells us to be tenacious, no matter the adversity. We certainly need determination right now. But tenacity doesn't require constant positivity. You can be terrified and yet tenacious.
Give yourself permission this week. We are scared. We are tenacious. Both/and.

03.02.2025 03:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me / and I wake in the night at the least sound / in fear of what...

This is the poem I've been returning to over and over in the last few weeks. It doesn't put out the (numerous) fires. But "for a time/I rest in the grace of the world" as I read it. And that's not nothing.

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/peace-w...

02.02.2025 05:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

✨ "The only way through this is mutually assured creation." ✨

Alix Klingenberg’s “Create Something New"” calls us to dream wildly & build boldly. In #UnitarianUniversalism, justice and interdependence remind us that change is a collective act. What will you create?

Read more: bit.ly/4hyz1qk

#UU

31.01.2025 19:32 — 👍 48    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0

#BlackHistoryMonth

02.02.2025 02:10 — 👍 229    🔁 105    💬 1    📌 9

Not me wondering why I'm having trouble doing grad school readings

02.02.2025 05:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A man jumping, under the words "Make Time For Joy"

Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.

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