ENGINES FAIL SOMETIMES, MY DEAR

I believe in God sometimes, but I believe in God the most when I imagine a God who has my mother’s laugh. I believe in a God who doesn’t want to get out of bed some mornings. A God who holds the old leather jackets of her dead friends and sits in a pile of old records on the floor of whatever heaven looks like. I believe in a God who comes home after a long night of being less than holy and sprawls out in a bed wearing the same clothes he went out in, and I believe in a God who is jarred awake by the floor rumbling with the weight of people praising his name. A wall of many hands clapping because of what his presence moved them to do.

Seven years after his death, I saw Celan in his old robe dancing alone in his bedroom, humming step over step. He did not mind being a character in my stories in a language he never learned.

please sign this petition i’ve started asking that the rcmp officers who brutalized chief allan adam of the athabasca chipewyan first nations be charged with assault. violence against indigenous people cannot continue. we have to take a stand. you can watch the dashcam video of the altercation here. 

"Well, I don't think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it's only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect. What has kept me going has been the development of new modes of community. I don't know whether I would have survived had not movements survived, had not communities of resistance, communities of struggle survived. So whatever I'm doing I always feel myself directly connected to those communities and I think that this is an era where we have to encourage that sense of community particularly at a time when neoliberalism attempts to force people to think of themselves only in individual terms and not in collective terms. It is in collectives that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism."

We’ve heard a ton about Minneapolis, but let’s not forget about Breonna Taylor’s home and their protestors. She was from Louisville, Kentucky. They’ve had 13 (as of now) nights of protests, which from what we know about cops, means a lot of arrested protestors.

Breonna Taylor’s petition has still not hit its goal. It takes next to no time at all to sign it. So if you haven’t, please do it and signal boost.

WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR HER!!!!

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