My first trail run after COVID had me thinking about medical apartheid, environmental racism, Lesbian Lore rabbit holes, celebrity culture and the false belief that representation will save us, how too many of us queer white women are Taylor Swifting our art and content, and why any conversation about gender and sexuality needs to include an analysis of the impacts of whiteness and ongoing colonization.

The King of Cups is a parent holding our emotions. This seems to speak to the ways in which we all have the capacity to re-parent ourselves, so that we may be able to hold space for not only our emotions and experiences in the ways we might have missed out on as children of emotionally immature adults (which is, I assume, most of us), but also so that we can be a holder for others’ emotions and experiences as well. Sometimes we’re called to be the container and sometimes we need others’ to contain or hold us, not in a controlling way, but in a gentle, open, cupped hands kind of way.

Last night, Chiron and the North Node came together in a conjunction. In astrology, Chiron is an asteroid known as “the wounded healer.” Transiting Chiron shows us where and what we’re ready to heal. But we also all have Chiron in our natal birth chart, which shows us what we’re perennially working on to heal. It’s a wound that we can learn to work with and tend to our whole life, so that we’re not defined by that wound or hurt. It’s a placement in our chart that allows us to be simultaneously apprentice *and* teacher and share what we’ve learned from our healing journey with others.

We're taught to believe that knowledge is static, definitive, fixed, unbiased, nonpartisan. If that was the case why are they banning Critical Race Theory from being included in curriculums? Why do they tell college professors,"You can teach whatever you want, but advocate nothing," as Dr. Joy James reveals in this potent and incisive conversation with Ericka Hart and Ebony Donnley on their award-deserving podcast Hoodrat to Headwrap.

I love being accused of "feminist propaganda" because that means what I'm writing is threatening to the foundations of white, cisheteropatriarchy and that's always the goal. When I stop being accused of writing "propaganda" I'll start to worry and wonder if I've lost my touch or if I'm doing something wrong.

There is a labor reckoning happening in the climbing industry. A recent mass layoff and slashing of their Yoga and Fitness Programs at Movement Chicago’s location catalyzed the power of the community to craft a petition for justice and accountability of Movement Climbing Gym leadership. Simultaneously, workers at Movement Climbing Gym Crystal City formed the first union in the climbing industry in 2021, but now face continued bad faith bargaining and efforts to sabotage the process from Movement leadership. The rot of capitalism is being exposed and workers and community members are uniting for better work conditions, living wages, and equitable treatment in an effort to cultivate a healthier and safe(r) climbing community overall.

there’s nothing eco-friendly about an eco-billionaire.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was attached to whiteness and I never saw her confront or challenge this. She’s not my hero. She shouldn’t be yours.

Not too long ago, on July 11, 1863 (yesterday about 157 years ago), 1,000 Paiutes from Payahüünadü (what settlers/colonizers consider the Owens Valley/Bishop area), were forced from their homelands to march 250 miles to Fort Tejon, where now exists the Tejon Reservation.

Today as uprisings and rebellions continue to bloom all over the country and globe to protest Black genocide and police murders, and advocate for police/prison abolition, Black women and femmes are being killed at devastating rates.

Black Diamond and Pieps are owned by Clarus Company, an under-the-radar, little known growth stock that is in its early stages as Mike Berner describes in his article, “Clarus: Potential Compound Machine in Outdoor Recreation.” The Executive Chairman and controlling shareholder of Clarus Company is Warren B. Kanders who describes himself as an “American businessman and philanthropist.” But there’s nothing philanthropic about this filthy rich white man who is also the CEO of Safariland, the premier maker of equipment for the law enforcement industry. Safariland is a U.S. based manufacturer that sells law enforcement and “security products,” including tear gas. On August 4, 2016 Safariland proudly announced a $7.3 million sale of ballistic equipment to the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”).

Today, in 2020 we are experiencing the largest civil rights movement in the world, and as Ericka Hart says, “This is a civil war.” All 50 states plus 18 countries have participated in protests against police brutality in defense of Black Lives as of June 3. More than 450 protests have been organized. The demand is simple: Defund the police.

Tear gas, flash-bang grenades, pepper spray, and rubber bullets are supposedly “non-lethal,” but these violent tools of war indeed are deadly. Tear gas increases respiratory illnesses and can have fatal consequences on those with pre-existing conditions like asthma. Although tear gas is explicitly prohibited in warfare, police are using it excessively to quell and silence the valid outcry of people who are fed up with a punitive system and police force that disproportionately targets and kills Black people.

Anti-racist action must be taken all year round, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Not just when someone’s life has been taken through racist rage. Not just when it fits into our schedule.