Shanda Scherdin

Link: youtu.be/w2fNAoVq0IE?...

25.03.2025 23:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This video of her reading it, plus a little commentary is well worth the 1.5 minutes. And if you’re like me, watching it over and over and over. Thanks, Alice Walker.

25.03.2025 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“& I call on all men of Earth to gracefully and gratefully
stand aside & let them (let us)
do so.”

25.03.2025 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“I call on all the
Grand Mothers of Earth
& every person who possesses the Grand Mother spirit
of respect for life
& protection of the young to rise & lead.
The life of our species depends on it.”

25.03.2025 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’ve been obsessed w/ the poem “Calling All Grand Mothers” by Alice Walker

Some favorite lines:

“We have to live differently
or we will die in the same
old ways.”

25.03.2025 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“Love will always move us away from domination in all its forms. Love will always challenge and change us. This is the heart of the matter.” #bellhooks in Teaching Community

11.03.2025 19:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can’t stop thinking about this sentence in Teaching Community by #bellhooks: “Where there is domination there is no place for love.”

11.03.2025 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A photo looking up into the canopy of redwood trees with bits of blue sky peeking through.

“Sometimes I imagine trees in therapy. In utter shambles as to why the mammals work against themselves.” - @prophiphop.bsky.social in Terraform: Building a Better World

07.03.2025 22:37 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Shoot. Meant to say, by bell hooks!

06.03.2025 20:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In today’s resistance reading (Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope) I’ve been inspired to think about looking for the “open spaces in closed systems” and to be “searching for the place of possibility.” There are still people who can change and relating to them with that mentality might matter.

06.03.2025 20:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0