04/08/2026
I’ve been writing, A LOT. It’s been my solace in recovery and the only way I’ve been able to make sense of the times we are navigating.
I have learned a thing or two, surviving abuse for most of my life. Gaslighting, threats to end your life, surveillance. Living in America is not that much different from domestic violence in a home.
If you’ve been wondering what to do, you feel overwhelmed, or you simply need a few sentiments to hold on to, I wrote this for you, and for me.
Your awareness is not weakness, it’s wisdom. Feeling the weight of what’s happening means you’re paying attention. People who named it early in history weren’t paranoid, they were right. Our discomfort is a signal, not a malfunction. Protect that clarity.
You come from people who survived the unsurvivable. Whatever our lineage, our ancestors lived through things that should have erased them and couldn’t. That’s not just our history, it is our biology. That resilience is literally encoded in us. We didn’t arrive at this moment fragile, no. We arrived equipped.
Hopelessness is a feeling, not a forecast. The future is genuinely unknown. History has surprised us for things have collapsed faster than feared, and things have turned around faster than anyone expected. Feeling hopeless is valid. Believing hopelessness as fact is a trap. Hold the feeling loosely.
Sustainable resistance requires sustainable people. We cannot give what we do not have and martyrdom isn’t a strategy. Rest, joy, community, taking care of your health—these aren’t escapes, they are necessity. The systems that be grind us down. They want us exhausted, uninformed and isolated. Refusal is resistance.
Find your lane and stay in it. One of the most paralyzing things about dark times is the scale of everything wrong at once. I know this well. We are not here to fix all of it. Find the thing you can do: your neighborhood, your skill, your voice, your presence and do that thing with all your might.
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