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Murmurations
Murmurations: Wisdom From Women Changemakers
It’s more important than ever to commit to collective practices that generate hope, love, care, and community.
Kristen Zimmerman & Shawna Wakefield & Rufaro Gwarada | Mar 26, 2024
Health & Happiness
Murmurations: Flying Into the Spring Equinox
Like moths emerging from a cocoon, the spring equinox beckons us to embrace our re-imagined selves.
Sham-e-Ali Nayeem | Mar 19, 2024
Murmurations
Murmurations: The Healing Power of Film
Centering healing justice in the filmmaking process offered this creator—and everyone involved in the film—a powerful way to begin to heal core wounds.
Joie Lou Shakur | Feb 27, 2024
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Murmurations: Making Space for Intentional Adaptation
Moving at the speed of trust has allowed this cooperative to create new visions of abundance—far beyond what white supremacist patriarchal hegemony deemed possible.
4DaSoil | Jan 30, 2024
Health & Happiness
Murmurations: Balancing Duality on Winter Solstice
Alexis Pauline Gumbs offers a Winter Solstice spell to help us embrace the darkness and light of this moment.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs | Dec 21, 2023
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Murmurations: There Will Be Living, After All
If we do not turn away from our grief, we can use it to craft armor, building a new demographic that will rise from the rubble to dance like dust.
Malkia Devich-Cyril | Dec 19, 2023
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YES! Editors | Dec 18, 2023
Health & Happiness
Murmurations: Moving from Punishment to Accountability
How can we hold accountable systems that are designed only to understand punishment?
Kung Li Sun | Nov 22, 2023
Health & Happiness
Murmurations: Growing Through Grief
Grief not only reminds us that we have loved, it serves as an acknowledgement of our divine humanity.
Jonathan McCrory | Oct 26, 2023
Health & Happiness
Murmurations: Loneliness As Fermentation
Solitude can create something new out of the process of decay.
chelsea cleveland | Sep 28, 2023
Health & Happiness
Murmurations: at the equinox
Poet Alta Starr invites us to embrace the stillness of the quiet, fleeting moment between seasons as we approach the equinox.
Alta Starr | Sep 21, 2023
Health & Happiness
Murmurations: Black Imagination Can Build a Better World
Black Imagination is an abolitionist tradition that offers us an invitation to act with hope amid times of great transition.
Aisha Shillingford | Aug 29, 2023
Health & Happiness
Murmurations: Experiencing Urban Earth Beauty
A note from adrienne maree brown: Suhaly offers her healing touch to the world through her Moon Mother Apothecary. I always have one of her healing salves on me. She
Suhaly Bautista-Carolina | Jul 27, 2023
Health & Happiness
Murmurations: Lessons from Pride and Parades
In a world obsessed with the concept of forever, Cherizar Crippen encourages us to recognize the beauty in impermanence.
Cherizar Lee Crippen | Jun 29, 2023
Health & Happiness
A Summer Solstice Spell for Prideteenth
To mark the summer solstice, Juneteenth, and Pride month, Junauda Petrus offers a spell rooted in the erotics of abolition.