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Jan 7, 2022

What Flower Essences are Teaching Me About Connection

Sticky monkey-flower — aka Diplacus aurantiacus. This native plant with glowing, translucent orange trumpet flowers and sticky green leaves was the first plant I ever made a flower essence with. I had the privilege of getting my intro to flower essence-making with Taylore and Stashca of Windfall Herbal Studies. …

Flower Essences

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What Flower Essences are Teaching Me About Connection
What Flower Essences are Teaching Me About Connection
Flower Essences

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Jun 11, 2020

Towards an Anti-Oppressive Herbalism

Herbal medicine is not apolitical — and practitioners have an opportunity to leverage that. Many people who are familiar with my work publicly are most acquainted with what I’ve done in the realm of racial justice and white fragility, namely with my zine, A Letter to My White Friends. Those…

Health And Wellness

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Towards an Anti-Oppressive Herbalism
Towards an Anti-Oppressive Herbalism
Health And Wellness

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Aug 2, 2019

You Have Agency

A love letter, a manifesto, a reminder. This poem was borne out of a time when, after hitting rock bottom from years of unaddressed abuse, trauma, and burnout, I finally found myself recovering and feeling some semblance of self-determination in my life. I decided to write a letter to myself…

Depression

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You Have Agency
You Have Agency
Depression

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·May 22, 2019

Staying In Place

Finding identity, community, and resistance in stillness. — It’s 2:36 P.M. I’m dehydrated. I lean weakly against a metal railing outside a Nevada gas station while I eat the rest of a breakfast burrito. I gaze wearily at my car, the silver paint flickering in the desert sun. …

Housing

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Staying In Place
Staying In Place
Housing

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Mar 15, 2019

We Can De-Power Capitalism By Supporting Each Other

We can shut down the machine by sharing. Many of us deal with these questions all our lives: How will I pay my rent? How will I buy food? We deal with them so regularly and deeply that answering them seems to become the very point of our existence. Capitalism…

Economics

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We Can De-Power Capitalism By Supporting Each Other
We Can De-Power Capitalism By Supporting Each Other
Economics

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Mar 2, 2019

A Letter to My White Friends: Cultural Appropriation and a Search for Cultural Belonging

Cultural appropriation is a sore spot for many people I know. No one likes to be told they can’t have something. However, that doesn’t mean that cultural appropriation isn’t a viable issue. Until the people whose cultures are being appropriated by people who don’t belong to those ethnic groups, whose…

Cultural Appropriation

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A Letter to My White Friends: Cultural Appropriation and a Search for Cultural Belonging
A Letter to My White Friends: Cultural Appropriation and a Search for Cultural Belonging
Cultural Appropriation

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Feb 24, 2019

A Letter to My White Friends: Smashing White Fragility, Fear, and Guilt

Consider this your call-in. Recently, I issued a call for my white friends to really examine our white identities, confront fragility, and help disrupt systemic racism. But the question remained, how do we go about smashing our fragility? To delve into the answer, let’s be thoughtful about what this entails…

Racism

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A Letter to My White Friends: Smashing White Fragility, Fear, and Guilt
A Letter to My White Friends: Smashing White Fragility, Fear, and Guilt
Racism

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Feb 22, 2019

A Letter to My White Friends: We Fear Seeing Ourselves Clearly

A letter to white people, from a white person, on white fragility and mustering the courage to overcome it. Before I begin, let me say I am not writing this to police other white allies and anti-racists. My purpose in writing this series is to create dialogue around the white…

Racism

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A Letter to My White Friends: We Fear Seeing Ourselves Clearly
A Letter to My White Friends: We Fear Seeing Ourselves Clearly
Racism

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Dec 30, 2018

Mapping the Radical Emotionality of Social Justice Work

Our feelings can bring us together — if we understand them. — Most of us involved are aware that social justice work is emotionally-intensive. I’ve written at length about the importance of acknowledging this emotional edge and taking steps to address it in our personal and organizational practices. …

Social Justice

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Mapping the Radical Emotionality of Social Justice Work
Mapping the Radical Emotionality of Social Justice Work
Social Justice

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Dec 29, 2018

Why White Activists Need to Go to Red States

There are problems in rural America that need addressing. I can name a few: white supremacy, crippling poverty, Evangelical fervor, and Trumpism. The 2016 election round made all of these issues painfully clear, and they continue to affect U.S. politics on a national and global scale. Rural America’s issues are…

Racism

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Why White Activists Need to Go to Red States
Why White Activists Need to Go to Red States
Racism

5 min read

Madeleine Keller

Madeleine Keller

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Writer, community organizer, queerdo, and zine author on race, justice, emotional literacy, and magic. madeleinelkeller.com

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