Sara S.

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

I love that I can text fellow mother friends a text riddled with typos and they don’t think I’m any less with it, they just know I’m likely also snuggling my flu-ridden child with one hand going on thirteen hours and typing with the other because motherhood #motherhood

They cannot take the sunrise.

Get strong. Grow food. Build community. And one super practical tip for organizing in community

I wrote a thing capturing a snap shot of how my values are moving and breathing in my life, plus share one super practical tip for organizing community

any other women feeling the urge right now to get really fucking strong in our bodies, learn to grow our own food with our hands, and build robust communities of radical love with our hearts in response
to the crumbling systems around us?

We don’t wait for the systems to crumble to build alternative systems rooted in collective care. We rebirth while the old systems give way so our communities are here to catch us as they fall.

Creative Community Spaces #5 Today I chat with Sara Sadak and Lesley Numbers about building community through creative practices and their collaborative zine Folkweaver.

This is the first of a series on interviews I’m soaring about how we can use creative practices to build and strengthen our local communities. This time I’m chatting to @folkweaver.bsky.social and @lesleyannenumbers.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/creative...

We start this by drawing our line in the sand that defines what information is actually worthy of our attention and moderating our media usage to focus on what’s important.

I can’t stress enough how important it is in this climate that we internally discern what is worthy of our attention and actively decide where to channel our focus. We have to remember that it is still very much in our control what we ingest and how much of it we choose to take in.

We Will Not be Baited by Chaos Grounding Together in Chaotic Times

New piece today.

“Now more than ever, it becomes a necessary, active practice to control our own attention and root in our communities.”

Folkweaver | Sara Sadek | Substack Folkweaver explores the interplay between connection and autonomy in education, childhood motherhood, and community. How is our connection our pathway to freedom, particularly for mothers and kids, i...

#intro Hi! I’m a mother, writer, educator and community builder.

I write about motherhood, education, and creative practice in community from a liberatory lens.

Weekly essays at folkweaver.substack.com

Hope to find all the kind questioning folks in this new space

Who else is anchoring in creative practice as a lifeline as we face these times?

#artasactivism #artasresistence #community