Wendy4d ago
"Your silence will not protect you." Audre Lorde wrote it in the terror of a body running out of time, and it outlived her because it was never only hers. Today's issue carries the fury — then carries you somewhere to set it down. Skullcap, steeped covered, for the wire your jaw has held all week. A jaw release that tells the nervous system the danger has passed. Ginger simmered gold, calendula for chapped hands. The mimosa blooms on schedule outside, pink silk against all of it.
https://twp.ai/4hsMbc
#Herbalism #SelfCare #MentalHealth #AudreLorde #Mindfulness #Healing #Wellness #HerbalMedicine #TeaTime #Florespondence #Mosstodon #Grounding
Show threadWendy4d ago
"Your silence will not protect you." — Audre Lorde. Today: the fury, then skullcap, breath, and the mimosa blooming anyway. https://twp.ai/4hsMXY #AudreLorde #SelfCare #Herbalism #MentalHealth #Healing #Poetry #Mindfulness

thistleandmoss.com
What Survives the Morning: Sometimes They Really Do Come Back, More Useless Than When They Arrived

What Survives the Morning: grief, climate crisis, and queer resistance—a lyrical news analysis with survival tactics for living through catastrophe.

Wendy The Druid
Show threadwendythedruid4d ago
"Your silence will not protect you." Audre Lorde wrote it in the terror of a body running out of time, and it outlived her because it was never only about her. Today's issue holds the fury and the tending both: skullcap for the worn nerve, a jaw release, the mimosa blooming on schedule anyway.
https://twp.ai/9OXbjc
#AudreLorde #Herbalism #SelfCare #MentalHealth #Mindfulness #Poetry #QueerHistory #Healing #Wellness #Mosstodon
What Survives the Morning: Sometimes They Really Do Come Back, More Useless Than When They Arrived

What Survives the Morning: grief, climate crisis, and queer resistance—a lyrical news analysis with survival tactics for living through catastrophe.

Wendy The Druid
Show threadWendy5d ago
"Better to speak." — Audre Lorde A president loved your hunger out loud. A machine sewed a lie onto an honest man's face. Don't go quiet. Silence was never safety. Only a quieter kind of afraid. https://twp.ai/9OXecY #AudreLorde #Resist #LGBTQ #Pride #Queer #Activism #SpeakUp

thistleandmoss.com
What Survives the Morning: "I Love the Inflation": The Day the Bastard Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

What Survives the Morning: HR insights from the trenches. Discover practical, real-world advice for navigating workplace challenges with an insider's guide to thriving in HR.

Wendy The Druid
Show threadwendythedruid5d ago
"Better to speak." — Audre Lorde
A president loved your hunger out loud today. A machine sewed a lie onto an honest man's face. The temptation is to go quiet, make yourself small enough to miss.
Don't. Silence was never safety. Only a quieter kind of afraid.
https://twp.ai/E5Ctoc
#AudreLorde #Resist #LGBTQ #Pride #Queer #Activism #Community #Solidarity #SpeakUp #MutualAid
What Survives the Morning: "I Love the Inflation": The Day the Bastard Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

What Survives the Morning: HR insights from the trenches. Discover practical, real-world advice for navigating workplace challenges with an insider's guide to thriving in HR.

Wendy The Druid
Show threadWendy6d ago
"We were never meant to survive." — Lorde. She got off the train. The body did that too. The going-on regardless is the whole stubborn fact of her. "Unison": https://twp.ai/9OXfxb #AudreLorde #TransRights #QueerLit #Solidarity #LGBTQ #MutualAidRequest #Fiction

thistleandmoss.com
Unison: Ride The Long Black Train

Experience a visceral journey through grief and solitude as a woman boards the long black train. A lyrical meditation on fear, survival, and the quiet moments that reshape us.

Wendy The Druid
Show threadwendythedruid6d ago
"We were never meant to survive." — Audre Lorde. "Unison" ends on that bare floor, where there's no move on the board that lifts the loneliness or calls off the eyes. The going-on regardless — even-paced, mute, alone, the key an inch off the lock — is the whole stubborn fact of her.
https://twp.ai/4hsQlX
#AudreLorde #TransRights #QueerLit #Solidarity #LGBTQ #Fiction #TransVisibility #MutualAid #Bookstodon #QueerHistory
Unison: Ride The Long Black Train

Experience a visceral journey through grief and solitude as a woman boards the long black train. A lyrical meditation on fear, survival, and the quiet moments that reshape us.

Wendy The Druid
WIST QuotationsJun 1

A quotation from Audre Lorde

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) American writer, feminist, civil rights activist
Essay (1983-10), “Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger,” Essence Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 6

More about this quote: wist.info/lorde-audre/49145/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #audrelorde #acceptance #defense #guilt #history #leverage #self #selfacceptance #selfdefense #selfimage #shame #vulnerability #weakness #weapon

Lorde, Audre - Essay (1983-10), "Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger," Essence Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 6 | WIST Quotations

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. From the expanded version collected in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984).

WIST Quotations
Craig ConstantineSep 14, 2023

The future

To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do.) Each of us must find our work and do it.

~ Audre Lorde

slip:4a1270.

#7ForSunday #AudreLorde #Optimism #Quotes
Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine
Show threadWendyMay 18
"Your silence will not protect you." — Lorde, 1977. Today silence costs Tehran's hospitals, Brussels' 2040 target, three decades of queer lives. It sorts who gets buried first. https://twp.ai/9OWdVf #AudreLorde #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #Resistance #BlackQueerHistory #Witness #Solidarity