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Dear crossings, Planetary, ancestral, and ordinary. We are humbled & emptied. The beautiful faces now stars, some returning to shine on us. Some just lost. The new growth in the forest burls. The spirits we buried. Our hearts grown weary & jo
Dear Madrone, Each Fall you remember. Outer red musculature, folded gray heart. The bark transitioning. shape, limbs, peel. Shed in thin curling gestures. Shed the skin burned by exposure. Shed to the tender green cambium and sapwood. Beautiful and o
Image description: crescendo, pummel, surge, expand, release, collect, rebuild, curl, power, wave as magnitude. This is not a photo of the riptide of Pacific mid swell and tidal expansion toward the beach. This is a photo of collective propulsion.
Image description: sunset. The reflective hint of tide slips toward the foreground. The dark sand ribbons just in front. A geometric of ocean just behind a black expanse, the contour of possibility. Black as birthplace of all light. The sky a halo of
Image caption: the place that has taught me the right size of things, the pace of forest, how to listen to a language both intimate & not my own. The Sierras, Lakes Basin, the warmth of a flat bare rock jutting out into the lake. The clarity of g
Image description: Expansive blue sky dotted with soft clouds that draw the eye from a dry yellow grassy slope into the farther reaches of oak stand hills. The deep green and ochre scruffy is a quintessential California grassland summer.
Liberation, equity, & love are teachings Black and Indigenous folks have held up because it was both necessity and choice in surviving genocide & oppression. Storytellers & culture keepers are two of many roles in envisioning and enactin
Black women & women of color make up the vast majority of nursing home staff. Most of the staff at my mom’s nursing home unit are Black women. Many of the residents living with dementia are Black elders. Many staff are also immigrants, Blac
Image description: title reads Black Trans Lives Matter in bold yellow. Below are three photos side by side with a background of the Trans pride flag: pink, white, and blue. The left photo is of Riah Milton who identifies as Black and a Transwoman. S
Still think access to nature isn’t tied to Racism? #blackbirders & #blackbirdersweek is a call to action. Joy, visibility, activism, and environmental justice are all a part of dismantling racism & enacting Black liberation. #blacklives
@freshcoastphotos literally creating a mural right next to a street corner with 15 cops gearing up. It takes all of us non Black POC taking action - protesting, making art, calling politicians, supporting through meals or childcare, educating ourselv