🧿 The illusion is crumbling
The foundation of the U.S. is rooted in violent oppression, occupation, and the continued exploitation of the people and the land.
Countless dreams have been left unfulfilled and life experiences cut short at the hands of those perpetuating and upholding beliefs and systems that dehumanize entire groups of people. Systems that vilify and demote those whose beings and bodies don’t fall in line within the constructs of whiteness.
All under the guise of law and order.
Under the notions of religion and nationalism.
Under the veils of the gender binary and the delusions that has designated whiteness as being supreme.
📺 The age of the internet and information
In the age of the internet and information many of us know this already.
Many of us are living the experience of what it’s like to be a human being who’s constructed outward identity and appearance does not match the arbitrary standards established by institutions who have yet to take accountability and/or be held accountable for their inherent biases and practices of deliberate discrimination.
And while I can go on and on about how fucked up this matrix of cyclical trauma is, there also exist the reality where many of us are reconnecting and rediscovering our truths, joys, and inherent interconnectedness.
A reality where we are finding or have found our communities, our sanctuaries, and our places of belonging with those we feel at home with.
Here, we are devoting and committing our time on earth to being in right relations with the land, ourselves, and each other.
Here, we practice ways of being that allow us to harness and discover our gifts and contributions towards a liberated reality for all.
Here, Indigenous sovereignty is honored and their wisdom is revered.
Here, Black, brown, Asian, Latine, Mexican, Pacific Islander, Queer, Trans, Gender Non-confirming, people with disabilities, and people of all cultures are affirmed, resourced, and supported to live in the fullness of their human expression.
Getting to that world is possible and versions of it are actualizing in intimate spaces all around us, physically and virtually. Spaces where people are fortifying, building, collaborating, sharing, coalescing, dreaming, actualizing, and nourishing ecosystems of care and creating expansive ways of what it means to be in community with one another.
👁️ None of us have it all together and no one is supposed to
There is no one answer or solution to the myriad of troubles and tribulations of our world because the possibilities are endless. All we have to do is allow ourselves to dream, vision, and imagine beyond the veil of the binary illusions we’ve been conditioned to operate under.
The more we root back into our bodies, the more we understand what we need to embody in order for us to transform this traumatic matrix we’ve been living in.
We live in a world full of wonder and possibility yet many of us are out here chasing dreams that further grease the wheels of oppression. And this is by design as we have been conditioned to audition for roles that keep us asleep to our own magic.
But more and more of us are reawakening to the visions that have steadily been seeping into our consciousness. Visions that have the capacity and potentiality of uprooting, transforming, and breaking the cycles we find ourselves repeating.
I feel for those who are complacent in limiting their human experience to only exist within the confines of societal constructs. Those adamantly denying the possibilities beyond the current systems that plague us. Those obsessed in upholding the fallacies of the gender binary. Those holding onto ideologies that further disconnect them from their own humanity. Those consciously contributing to the extraction and degradation of the land. And those proactively participating in the divide and conquer conquests and isms that pit us against one another.
I write this note in an effort to keep track of this moment because we are living in a time where a majority of the world can instantly connect.
Where a majority of the world is a witness and in many ways complicit in the unconscionable ongoing war crimes taking place.
From the genocides in Gaza to Armenia and from Sudan to the Democratic Republic of Congo. To the displacement of Indigenous peoples all over the world from climate change and the continued exploitation and extraction of natural resources that provide the Global North its conveniences and comforts.
🔮 I believe words are spells
And the spell I’m casting are for interventions of grand proportions that permanently end all war crimes against humanity.
I’m casting a spell where the U.S., U.K., and all other governing bodies complicit in the war crimes against humanity atone and proactively take accountability for their actions and inactions.
I’m casting a spell so that every being, especially Queer, Trans, Non-Binary, and Gender Expansive beings across all cultures, can have an affirming, supported, and resourced life living in the fullness of who they are.
Thank you for reading and as always, receive what resonates and let go of what doesn’t.
Love in all the ways,
Willa
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***ALSO***
Stay tuned as I’ll be doing an impromptu Highly Human sale with an offering to help raise funds that will support my move out west next month.
More info. in the next post!
1 Actions for Gaza
Download the 5 Calls App to call your reps and demand they advocate for a permanent ceasefire.
Visit www.ShutItDown4Palestine.org for more actions to take.
Learn about the calls for boycotts and the urgent actions listed by the BDS National Committee.
You can also check brands on Boycott the Witness to see their involvement in the occupation of Palestine.