Tending your inner life is resistance
How do we survive a fascist regime?
how do we survive
a fascist regime?fascism thrives on
exhaustion and despairtending your inner life
is resistancemove your body
meditate or pray
journal and process
get outside
seek out reliable news
consume truth intentionallypreserve joy and art
sing and write
dance and share beautydictators want to erase culture
keeping our stories alive is defiancehelp vulnerable people
navigate systemspractice everyday solidarity
refuse to go along with cruelty
don’t normalize hate speechdocument injustice
carefully and securely
subvert propaganda
share stories
pass on banned books
use humor
preserve memorytogether is always
the way forward
This Week
Books
Gently Fierce: Poems of Faith, Rage & Holy Imagination
A collection of urgent, tender poems from a neurodivergent pastor writing through the unraveling of America, naming grief as sacred and offering embodied, fierce love as a path into collective healing.There She Is: Love Notes on Finding Home
A gentle, honest collection of poems tracing one woman’s journey through change and vulnerability toward rediscovering her inner strength and self-love, inviting readers to tenderly meet themselves in the places that ache and shimmer.Still Here: A Poetry Memoir on Grief & Love
A tender, unflinching collection of poems written in the first year after a brother’s death, walking through the shock and ache of grief toward the quiet truth that love endures and the ones we lose remain with us as we learn to live again.
The Thread
The Thread is a weekly-ish newsletter where we untangle the stories that make us who we are so we can show up to our lives with spacious presence, brave honesty, radical love & wild curiosity.
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