020221212
If language defines us
Overtime sets who we are
What we can do
Maybe the abstract nature
Of our language
Is the problem
It isn’t that humans
Are innately violent
Or inhumane
It’s the fact that we can
Justify our actions
Abstractly, devoid of human value
It’s only business
It’s for progress
They started it
020220915
I now know what to say
When asked why sociology
It isn't to explain gender and women's studies
I am continuing
I am formalizing
The postgraduate studies in humanities
That my father started when I was born
From the collective pain
Of people trying to make salt
I gained life altering perspective
The goal was just to experience a different culture
I am seeking
A life altering experience
The goal to shift from mere observation
To action
Collective
Shared experience
020220101
when coming across an ideal or idea greater than i can understand i must not view it from below from my point of understanding only... i must elevate my thinking my understanding in order to view straight on at its level
i read bell hooks but knew i didn't understand, years later trying to elevate my thinking i now know and understand straight on only what she said directly... choose love
020221204
America is a dream sold with a lie.
America is a violence rooted
in the safety of collective inaction
America is an unfinished revolution
turning a people not simply against a monarch
We must continue to be a network of connections
striving for growth in community with others
not American but intergalactic beings
creatively maladjusted to the painful social norms
of our ephemeral containers
020220901
on Wednesday it will have been 102 years
"since women were given the right to vote"
without critical thinking we celebrate
102 years ago a right
was no longer ignored
by white men in America
as being due their family
102 years ago
a sin was shared
an evil was expanded
if one of us is oppressed
we are all of us broken
even with these
rose colored glasses
my soul sees at best that
America is a promise
020220901
Expectations of Home
home has a smell
it has a call
love has a place and it is home
home, america
white -- male
has a violence in it
that is hidden
not that it isn't on display
but it is welcomed
it is expected that
there is dominance
that there is control
when missing or absent
it isn't a man
it isn't crazy
until it is turned
on the audience
on the consumer
on home