Lidia Yuknavitch

hummingbird with exposed heart and lungs, or, how it feels to be a survivor of sexual violence from father/family/state/patriarchy :: my heart to all children who were, are, fluttering, hearts beating not beaten :: may future generations find solace

The Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924 Since its founding, the U.S. Border Patrol has arguably been the most politicized and abusive branch of federal law enforcement.

The border patrol has been a cult of brutality since 1924.

Dear writer friends, I’m teaching a week-long workshop this summer in Chicago with StoryBoard: Want to join me? All the information you need, including how to apply, is here (make noise): www.storystudiochicago.org/storyboard-c...

We need all of us when they come for any of us. Healers cooks fighters artists tech survival and transportation and communication and organization. Immigrants are us. BIPOC are us. We are the rest of each other. Solidarity with Minneapolis and anywhere the big NOPE is blooming.

Renee Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Shot dead by ICE. Aliya Rahman yanked from her car. Children used as bait, kidnapped.The government is terrorizing and rounding up your neighbors. Enabling genocidal violence. Join the resistance and be of service to your community.

If it were up to me, geriatric would-be invaders of Greenland would be sent out on an ice floe or maybe just rethink their life goals from an extended meditation retreat period atop the ice sheet. Perhaps a polar bear could discuss arctic life with him too?

rapid response organizations on the ground here in Portland, OR :: help when and where you can :: resist always ::

art begets art however it wants to :: budding. hydra. fragmentation. spore. parthenogenesis. rhizomatic. regenerative. fission. amoeba. starfish. fern. axolotl. kristen. imogen. chronology of water.

Frey: So, they are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly: That is bullshit.

Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum.

We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.

fuck it. just drove until I found some snow. deep longing soothed.

Honestly I’m just trying to get through the next couple of days without incident :: seasonal gush to all and solidarity with those white knuckling it ::

snow globes.

boom.

Count me among the legions of humans who feel the world is a little less of the best humans have to give without her. I feel gratitude. I feel love. I feel strangely bereft, whether or not I have a right to.

This singular human was more important to me privately, personally, than my parents, to be honest, if by important we might mean something to live for, something to love. I admired her life force, her life choices, her living and being more than any other human on the planet, I think.

I am not much into heroes. The whole concept is a bit suspect to me, in narrative and in life. I lean Le Guin, I suppose. I profoundly understand how leadership qualities in some beings are useful to the group, I just don't think they are more important than other beautiful being qualities.

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in the place where our conversation used to live ::

you can get training on action, security, and first aid. you can share resources and information in small cells that mobilize quickly. you can make art in the face of fuck (info about eyesss, raising funds for legal aid, memes about shitheads.

you can volunteer at immigrant and refugee support organizations, LGBTQ+ organizations, BIPOC organizations, shelter and domestic violence organizations. you can buy kids lunches.

you can join a mutual aid network in your community. you can start collecting supplies with a small group of people to help other people and each other. you can double-down on neighborhood watch groups--redirected toward the new police state and protecting your neighbors and each other.