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Why Do You Equate Toil With Righteousness?

Do you think you must purchase your dignity with hard work?

Colored pencil sketch of a tired tech worker in a hoodie, relaxing in a patio chair at sunset. He slumps while sipping a raspberry iced tea, an open laptop sitting on the side table. — A generated image of someone relaxing with a raspberry iced tea just like I am right now.

We Write The Future

Social change is hard, so take care of yourself. None of us is responsible for winning alone.

Four monarch chrysalises hang from a window screen frame: green, dark mottled, and one transparent revealing the folded orange-and-black wings of a butterfly about to emerge. — Photo by Suzanne D. Williams / Unsplash

In a World of Nouns, Be a Verb

Enacting a better world means showing up intentionally - not just transformed, but transformative.

The Template Is the Trap — Photo by Brett Jordan / Unsplash

The Template Is the Trap

David Sirota is right about Graham Platner. Let's start there.

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Your Art Wasn't Stolen. It Was Seen. That’s the Point.

When you post art on the open web, you're participating in a commons, not a marketplace.

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Militant Hope

Pushing back on the aesthetics of rage with a critique of activist resentment.

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I traded the script for a life that feels good from the inside and moved to Costa Rica to see what’s on the other side of “supposed to.” I write about what I find for everyone standing at that edge.

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