I remember once feeling so full
With new love's energy-
Swollen with it like a mother's breast.
And now it is not that I
Am a raisin in the sun,
But a wild grape trusting
To be made into wine.

-Vintage Infatuations

#poetrysky

Iran replaced my mother’s voice with silence Dr.

expression.fire.org/p/iran-repla...

Instead Of A "Sunday Reset," I’m Embracing Rest While spending your Sunday working through chores and resetting for the week can sound appealing, resting might extend your life and help you enjoy it more.

www.thegoodtrade.com/features/sun...

Treks Rural Voters

jesspiper.substack.com/p/treks?utm_...

Buzzwords like "immigration" wouldn't be an issue if the disdain white people have of "other" wasn't already deeply rooted. When colonizing they had no fear; arrive, kill, take. Yet, when they are told they are being "replaced" it's, "life is lonely and unfair." The fear comes out and with it hate.

My face a sun catcher
And my heart a window to my soul-
Can you see how tired I am
In my long travels back to you?

-Love and Airports

#poetrysky
#manifest

Tennessee Canceled A Woman’s Sterilization to “Protect Her Sacred Fertility” 2.25.26

jessica.substack.com/p/tennessee-...

Unfucking Midlife: You Said You Wanted It. So Why Don’t You Have It? Most women I know are not confused about what they want. They know. They’ve known for years.

ashleykelsch.substack.com/p/unfucking-...

How I wish I had been ready for this lesson sooner. How I hope you're ready to hear it now. And how I love us both right where we are at. 💜

#healing

Exposing Republicans' Bad-Faith Abortion 'Coercion' Obsession They're pretending to care about abuse victims

jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-c...

Life reduced to litter,
Vagrancy inviting violence-
Hope without a home.

-Misdemeanor Murders
(Gilgo Beach)

#poetrysky

'I'm a Stereotypical Single Woman Who Wants a Baby Right Now!' You can have exactly what you want. Live like it’s already yours.

open.substack.com/pub/askpolly...

This advice is relevant to so many of us wondering fools.... 💜

The Winter of Parenting Snow days, Second springs & Sacred survival

asiasuler.substack.com/p/the-winter...

It may be more vulnerable for me to be a dominatrix than a sub, esp as a woman that looks like I do and dominates the way that I do. This sacred vulnerability took a lifetime to unpeel from shame, and perhaps even longer to lovingly embrace. 💜

#firehorse
#rewilding
#bdsm

The economic trend that worries me most And the best way to reverse it.

robertreich.substack.com/p/the-econom...

#eattherich

substackcdn.com/image/fetch/...

Trump Doesn’t Want You To See This So, here you go!

steady.substack.com/p/trump-does...

YouTube video by Talking Heads - Topic Once in a Lifetime

music.youtube.com/watch?v=KwIG...

Same as it ever was....

#musicsky
#firehorse

Context Matters: Trump Administration Summons Secretaries of State And the context for this one isn't promising.

open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Nick Fuentes Wants Women in “Gulags.” Here’s Why That Matters. "Gender has always been an important throughline of fascist politics," says Shane Burley.

organizingmythoughts.org/nick-fuentes...

Under His Eye, indeed.

#resist

PAM BONDI HAS EXISTED SINCE THE FIRST CENTURY (and so has the teenage survivor who triumphs despite her)

megganwatterson.substack.com/p/pam-bondi-...

"There is no opposite word for trauma, but hope comes pretty close"

I don’t know how to age as a trans person I didn’t expect to live past my 20s. As I approach middle age, my next chapter is hard to picture

www.script.health/article/agin...

And important read as an ally/lover/friend, and a relatable one for many of us in marginalized bodies.

#translivesmatter

We've played both sides
Of the field now-
And it's the bottom of the ninth,
With a few strikes behind.
The question
Was never about winning or losing,
Only if you continue to play.

- Sliding Into Home
(Babe Ruth)

#nevergivingup
#poetrysky