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cross the border of mediums to demolish the border between mediums // sometimes a handwritten letter and an envelope of art from a friend (@anonymouslyner) will remind you of yourself, and sometimes thinking of a friend (@iammarstian) or a sister (@yo__manda) will give you confidence, and sometimes the tools of an elder (@eteladnandaily) will help you exist easier. sometimes this will all be facilitated by a friend (@j7md) once gifting you something that’s since been in a corner collecting dust. it all takes a village. it is important to know how people define and redefine and undefine love. // more nawal in eflux. // ending with the first pages i ever read of hers. over a decade ago, upstairs in the college library stacks, i sat on the floor, stunned with the possibility that truth could be told. that the dominating narratives of patriarchy could be challenged. // not pictured: the passage from woman at point zero with the character named camelia, one of the few and earliest times in which i felt seen in the english language. albeit through translation and a narrative very different from my own, the feeling still happened. // many will find this familiar, that men, even among her contemporaries, dismissed her by saying she exaggerated. // exaggerate, people, as far as your imagination will take you. “i try to let my students discover themselves... they need to look for a deep inner voice that they haven’t heard since childhood.” we are fundraising to support gender affirming surgery and care for my heart-friend. they are a community worker, artist, bridge-builder, giver of love and collective joy. please join me in supporting them. link in my bio. the year of january went zoom zoom and this isn’t even all of it / alf mabrook jazzy and lo2lo2 u r the stars🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 congrats to these animals on being closer to god than all the racist classist sexist homophobes in dearborn my cute neighbors and me spoil me some asynchronous form for @iammarstian 🧡🔀🎈