A few days ago, I joined Tony Robbins’ Ultimate Breakthrough 2022 Online 5 Day Challenge.

I’ve been exploring the Facebook group in order to find support for my many goals, make new like-minded friends, and gain clients for my creative conversations project.

A few days ago, they offered a mini-challenge…

As many of you know, mutual aid isn’t charity which typically follows the givers’ assumptions about the “helped” group’s needs and their mistrust of the group’s own needs assessment than it does about the group’s self-knowledge, current resources, barriers, strengths, and current leadership.

Did you also know charity’s purpose isn’t…

Notice how businesses that were breeding consumption via appealing to our competitive, comparing, polarizing, fearful natures have rebranded themselves as caring, diverse, and supportive of their clients, internal, external, and potential?

Notice how they play on people wanting to touch, to connect, to communicate as if engaging with their products…

During the summer between my first and second year as a University of Virginia (UVA) undergrad, I worked for a Black-owned, private, unarmed security company in a Section Eight housing project in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Every night from 8 PM to 8 AM, I sat on a stool, feet dangling, listening…

I am a black, non-binary, anti-racist worker, and a victim of police brutality.

I felt “little things” would be another piece of police propaganda propping up the “Blue Lives Matter” movement.

The trailer shows a Charlie Manson-esque creepy person played by Jared Leto being interrogated and intimidated by tough, rogue…