Hello and happy Wednesday to you!
I’m keeping it simple this week and jumping straight to some of my favorite recent (and not-so-recent) reads.
What I’ve Been Reading
I’ve become very intrigued with the concept of generativity. These articles about Elizabeth Warren and Toni Morrison are excellent examples of generativity, of giving and creating something beyond yourself.
This week’s stan moment. Related: happy birthday, niece!
The debate around gun control is back in the news. I appreciate how this article debunks a common line of thinking—that gun violence decreased during the pandemic—and corrects it with data. When we talk about gun control, are we most interested in only stopping mass shootings or in healing our callousness toward everyday violence?
A comprehensive resource database. Share share share and ACT *heart emoji*
I really like Abby Phillip and I love Gayle. And I’m a big fan of Lindsay Peoples-Wagner!
Came for the headline and the article delivered.
“The Opposites Game” by Brendan Constantine — a heavy poem that made me cry
“Tomorrow is a Place” by Sanna Wani — a lighter poem that also made me cry
The first quarter of the year is already almost over. In light of that, I’ve been thinking about how fast time moves and how I want to spend my own. I’ve shared this piece before, but I always return to Bambara’s words in her closing paragraph. They soothe me.
“It may be lonely. Certainly painful. It’ll take time. We’ve got time. That of course is an unpopular utterance these days. Instant coffee is the hallmark of current rhetoric. But we do have time. We’d better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don’t win the war. It don’t even win the people. Neither does haste, urgency, and stretch-out-now insistence. Not all speed is movement.”
Go slow. Be intentional this week.
Sending love!