Image Description: A black-and-white ink drawing of two dark-skinned hands holding each other. The hands are framed in a diamond/square, where each side of the diamond/square is made of different things. On the bottom, the left side is made of a long stick and the right side is made out of stones, rocks, and pebbles. […]
Archive | September, 2018
Workshop Wednesday: Systems That Spread Empire & Oppression
This poster is a visual tool for sighted folks that can be used in conjunction with The Taking Tree tool or separately as a way to explain how oppression based on Western empire has spread and continues to spread by capitalism, franchise colonialism, settler colonialism, and neo-colonialism. The purpose of this tool is to add […]
Musings Monday: My Healing Work
Who do I serve? I generally offer healing for my family, friends, and members that I’m in spiritual groups with. This may change once I become a registered social worker, in that I will only be able to offer “traditional” healing to them and not anything that can be described as social work or counseling. […]
Throwback Thursday: The Civilizer
Original 2008; Revised 2018 Hello. Have you ever felt that your life was savage, barbaric, less than ideal? Tired of living close with the earth? Bored of your rich, oral traditions? Suddenly doubting the validity of the herbal knowledge that’s served your community for hundreds of years? Fed up with the symbiotic relationship of humans, […]
Workshop Wednesday: The Taking Tree (2018 Version)
The Taking Tree is a visual tool for sighted folks that can be drawn piece-by-piece or used as a poster/handout to give a rough overview of the rise of oppression in North America. The purpose of this tool is to show the many intersectional moving parts of how oppression grows and works over time. For […]
Patreon News: Schedule Posting Change
Due to my ongoing recovery process, Troubleshoot Tuesdays and Fresh Fridays will be updated monthly, indefinitely, unless I get requests from patrons on a specific topic or an art/poetry/song commission. Thanks everybody for your patience!
Musings Monday: Noah Heart
[Image description: There is a photo in a blue frame. In the photo, there is a brown-skinned man with dark hair, glasses, and a long-sleeved shirt who is praying to an angel statue. The blue frame has the words “NOAH HEART” at the top, “DREAMS” to the left, “WISHES” to the right, and “HEALING” at […]
News: No Posting This Week
My apologies, dearest patrons and followers. Unfortunately, due to a severe injury, I am mostly bedridden and require this week for recovery, so there will be no Patreon posts until Monday September 17th. In the meantime, check out Rest for Resistance’s website, specifically this article on The Privilege of Getting to Rest: Let’s Shift the […]
Fresh Friday: By Tooth and Claw
For Luka When Bear came to me in a dream, I felt alone in the world and abandoned by Creator Her form seemed like a hulking threat A silent judgement Yet she waited till I approached Night after night year after year She was my strength and my balm To my tears and aches my […]
Throwback Thursday: Scars
Image Description: A black-and-white ink drawing of an eye with dark sclera emerging out of a wound with three stitches on either side. The word “SCARS” is superimposed on top and faded, with Lukayo’s signature in English and basahan/baybayin under the “R” and “S” of the word “SCARS”. Content Warning: allusions to death, sexual assault, […]
