Desireé B Stephens

The Legal Framework: Laws, Policies, and the Creation of a Corporate Nation From the Constitution to Modern Laws: How America's Legal System Cemented a Business Model of Exploitation

14.06.2025 14:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Language as a Tool of Obedience: From Home to Hustle Culture How “Respectability” Became Supremacy in a Suit

10.06.2025 08:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Desireé B Stephens on Substack I am convinced that the empire keeps us isolated and in our boxes so that we don’t see how free others are living. This weekend at FurryCon has been glorious for a few reasons. Sharing time with Er...

07.06.2025 18:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Welcome to May: Season of Blooming — Rooted in Resistance Our liberation does not rush. It roots. It resists. It reaches.

10.05.2025 21:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much for sharing and sitting with this

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May = Season of Blooming: Rooted in Resistance
This month in Liberation Education:
– Boundaries as bloom work
– Grief & joy as sacred acts
– The R.O.O.T.S. Method™

A playlist & podcast return May 19
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#MakeShiftHappen

01.05.2025 09:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Desireé B Stephens on Substack White People Were the Original Anchor Babies: Let’s Unpack On May 15th, Congress will hold a hearing to challenge birthright citizenship—a right rooted in the 14th Amendment, originally created to pr...

Self-Worth and the Right to Want More Releasing guilt, shame, and scarcity in our desires.

22.04.2025 19:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You don’t have to be better to be worthy.
You don’t have to do more to deserve more.
You don’t have to shrink to belong.
You’re worthy because you exist. Full stop.

New article: “Self-Worth & the Right to Want More”
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11.04.2025 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Expanding Beyond Survival Thinking Unlearning the mindset that tells us enough is too much

Desireé B Stephens on Substack Segregation Was Never About Us. It Was Always About Containing You. Liberal white folks, you’re not scared of injustice—you’re scared of the consequences of proximity. And that’s okay. Sit with that....

02.04.2025 12:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Day 60 of 100 days of community Nurturing Empathy and Vulnerability in Connection

24.03.2025 20:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Day 60 of 100 days of community
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23.03.2025 14:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Desireé B Stephens on Substack So You Want to Boycott? Ireland’s Gift to Global Resistance and the Long Game of Economic Defiance Boycotts have been at the heart of resistance movements for centuries, but how many people know the...

The Penal Laws: How Britain Controlled Ireland Through Oppression, Division, and Fear Irish History Through the Lens of Rebellion and Resistance

14.03.2025 17:54 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Desireé B Stephens on Substack Who Were You Before You Were White? Before whiteness, before census boxes, before the construct of race as we know it today—who were you? This is the first question I ask white-bodied people in deco...

06.03.2025 20:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Desireé B Stephens on Substack Parenting, Fascism, and the Carceral State: It Starts at Home "Do y'all really not see the parallels between fascism and authoritarianism in parenting?" Yolanda Williams of Parenting Decolonized htt...

06.03.2025 20:18 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

We really have to do better as parents in this world.
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04.03.2025 20:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you SO much

04.03.2025 14:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Desireé B Stephens on Substack Quiet Quitting Capitalism: The Soft Strike Before the Revolution We’ve seen it in the workplace—workers refusing to overextend themselves, refusing to grind themselves into dust for jobs that will re...

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01.03.2025 17:55 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Desireé B Stephens on Substack @Jerome T. Marshall asked me an amazing question and it deserved to not be lost in the thread. Here was the question: Question: Do you lean more Marx or Contemporary Black Anarchism? This may have ...

How Do I Decolonize Love and Redefine It as a Liberatory Act? Liberation Lessons: Actionable Advice for Radical Change A Weekly Paid Subscriber Bonus

28.02.2025 21:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Desireé B Stephens on Substack The Coup Already Happened—You Just Ignored It Alfred Moore Waddell declared himself mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, marking the only successful coup d’état in U.S. history. Armed white ...

15.02.2025 15:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

E6: Liberation is for Everyone: Decolonizing Feminism with Desiree Stephens Why pleasure and rest are vital to activism, how white women reflect and replicate white masculinity, building a truly inclusive feminist movement, and so much more.

14.02.2025 02:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Did you guys know that @liberatemotherhood.bsky.social had me on their podcast!!!??? It was so much fun and she is brilliant, real, and I love her. Listen and tell me what you think.
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10.02.2025 11:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Season of Self: The Shadow Knows — Embracing What We’ve Suppressed Witnessing Our Hidden Selves as a Path to Healing

✨ What if the voice of fear isn’t a sign you’re failing—but a sign you’re on the edge of growth? #shadowwork open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...

10.02.2025 11:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Red Summer (1919): When Black Resilience Faced White Rage Black History Through the Lens of Liberation

Day 15 of 100 days of community What Does Intersectionality Look Like in Practice?

07.02.2025 17:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Intersectionality is about liberation, not labels. It’s about acknowledging where privilege and oppression meet—and using that awareness to create change. Where are your intersections leading you today? Let’s reflect. desireebstephens.substack.com/p/day-15-of-...

04.02.2025 23:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Desireé B Stephens on Substack Why I’m Standing With A Day Without Immigrants—And How I’m Explaining It to My Kids Today, we are participating in A Day Without Immigrants—and I’m explaining to my kids (5, 8, and 12) why it’s impor...