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for my dead & loved ones*
on shamelessly loving the living and doing right by the dead
 • Ra Malika Imhotep
"such as i am, i am a precious gift" - zora neale hurston
a reappraisal of my self[-love]
 • Ra Malika Imhotep
"i begin with the recognition that we are at war... " - Toni Cade Bambara, 1983
June truths: grief, love, and the practices in between
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“I shall become a collector of me”- sonia sanchez
Lost files from the time when Venus was stationing direct, rough draft taking flight
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"as long as the earth can make a spring, springtime, i can do that also...we are one" - Alice Walker
an invitation fro The Church of Black feminist Thought to be in practice, in spirit, in study, in dirt
 • Ra Malika Imhotep and Miyuki Baker
"concernful care for other human beings" - hortense spillers
January Reflections : more sorrow, more suffering, more grace, more attunement
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"not all speed is movement" - Toni Cade Bambara
something about "right effort" and the cultivation of a revolutionary [black feminist] life in the face of chaos, something about the boddhisattva as…
 • Ra Malika Imhotep
outta my cotton pickin’ mind
outta my cotton pickin’ mind
“I write for the same reason i keep track of my dreams, for the same reason i meditate and practice being still — to stay in touch with me and not let too much slip by me” - Toni Cade Bambara
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