Stay in the rainbow... "Capybara and the Storm" was painted to help me remember to find and stay in the rainbows despite all the storm raging around me. Hope it sparks some happiness in you, even it's just a little!

This is mostly copypasted from my other #introduction post, since I think it's the bestest one I've written thus far :)

I'm a #writer. I like to write about #grief, #QueerIdentity, #hope, #praxis, and #harm + #reciprocity. (my websites are in my links!)

I have trained as a #DeathDoula, and I engage in #GriefWork & #DeathWork with and for my best beloveds: the #LGBTQIA2S+ community.

In my spare time you can find me hyperfocusing on whatever it is that I can't stop thinking about. I love a new game, a new favorite song, a new project management solution, and thinking about my chosen family and intentional community.

I'm #pagan, I am training in an old mystery tradition of pre-Gardnerian British traditional #witchcraft. We are from a long time ago and we are doing what it takes to support, love, and keep safe the people in our communities.

I will always fight for your right to #choose. I believe this right is a fundamental human gift.

If you ask Harold Galahad, he isn’t fit to lead the crew of the half-destroyed cargo spaceship Herald Petrel back home. But nobody asks Harry.

A character-driven space odyssey with a trauma-ridden captain, a diverse--and quirky--crew, and a #mystery to be solved. A tale about #loss, #love, #humanity, #coping, and #hope in a hopeless situation.

Get it here: https://books2read.com/HeraldPetrel

@bookstodon
#ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #SciFi #SpaceOdyssey #HeraldPetrel #ReadingCommunity #PTSD #grief

I am hopeful and optimistic. I think the world is getting better and the best is yet to come.

Several friends of mine in different situations recently talked about desperation in an unjust world that seems to go worse everyday.

They’re intelligent and so am I. That got me thinking about the radical difference in our outlook.

I think part of it is that I have a trove of resources that instil me with #hope. Many written by #antiracist #feminist fighters.

This is a thread of them.

This is mostly copypasted from my other #introduction post, since I think it's the bestest one I've written thus far :)

I'm a #writer. I like to write about #grief, #QueerIdentity, #hope, #praxis, and #harm + #reciprocity. (my websites are in my links!)

I have trained as a #DeathDoula, and I engage in #GriefWork & #DeathWork with and for my best beloveds: the #LGBTQIA2S+ community.

In my spare time you can find me hyperfocusing on whatever it is that I can't stop thinking about. I love a new game, a new favorite song, a new project management solution, and thinking about my chosen family and intentional community.

I'm #pagan, I am training in an old mystery tradition of pre-Gardnerian British traditional #witchcraft. We are from a long time ago and we are doing what it takes to support, love, and keep safe the people in our communities.

I will always fight for your right to #choose. I believe this right is a fundamental human gift.

Just a little reminder if you are despairing about the current state of the world:

There is always hope. Always.

I have the picture in my home office and sometimes I am incredibly grateful for the incredibly strong message it conveys.

For those who are skeptical about what we can do for the planet...and for those who aren't here's some #hope. I hope you'll share and spread the possibility for real change. We need to leave off doing our stupid jobs and do important things like build an infrastructure that sustains us all. One of natural abundance and beauty.
#climatechange #climatecrisis #hopepunk #waterpunk #climateaction #community #goodIdeas

https://youtu.be/Tpozw1CAxmU

“Hope begins with the ability to imagine alternatives. And there is always an alternative.” - part of a brilliant graduation address by Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) to York University.

A great piece about science fiction, optimism, pessimism, fatalism, humane agency, Luddites, tech bros, inevitability, and the need to always seek alternatives… and to find hope.

Read the whole thing: https://doctorow.medium.com/there-is-always-an-alternative-e55fd414d1fd

English version !

I have started a thread today

I call it the infinite thread

I will keep expanding it

Each time with new topics, how we manage to fight and blow up the system they have imposed on us

For a better world for all of us, for a more human

For each theme I will also write a poem

This thread will stay pinned so everyone can find the beginning of the infinite

Thread
https://mastodon.social/@si_irini/110598064489487348

Temple of Carnelian

This is based on a reading I did with a deck of Oracle cards before the pandemic. I'll try to get a good image of the card and add it it to this post later.

First paragraph to get you started.

In the Aether there is a temple, a pyramid of stone, missing the capstone, forever bathed in the red-gold light of a setting desert sun. The doors are always open and the inside is filled with long shadows that provide respite from the heat. You are welcome to sit, relax, contemplate. You've earned your place here. If you explore, you may find the goddess of the temple, Sekhmet, she with the head of a lioness, arbiter of courage and inner strength. She may smile, she may beckon or direct, but she never speaks. It isn't necessary. In this case, she glanced at a passage off in the distance, one I hadn't yet seen. It danced with a curious flickering array of colors and so I moved toward it. Even before I could see it clearly, I felt it, like an oven, but I was strong, so I pushed forward, I had to see. My skin felt as if it may peel away, like the worst sunburn you've ever had, but still I pushed. And I saw a corridor, lengthy and filled entirely with flame.

The UAE's Hope Mars orbiter got an extremely rare close look at the planet's enigmatic outer moon, Deimos. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01422-1 #Mars #Hope

Am nervous and scared

First, please read this poem only if you can read a poem about suicide

I am accusing our whole society, whether it can be done or not is another discussion
Please read to the end if you can

One day I will write a poem about the people who were left behind with questions

Everyone who knows german please read the german version

Please #boost who supports it

Thanks a lot
si_irini

‘I recently stopped my #Twitter account & like many others, moved to #Mastodon & the first #poet I encountered there was Yahia Lababidi.

What a delight! What a calm voice of reason. What an excellent poet. I am going to let Yahia speak for himself. Enjoy!’

— @Magpieboy

https://magpiebridge.blogspot.com/2023/04/yahia-lababidi-poet-of-hope.html?fbclid=IwAR3lkY4eHtnXc3ja4XKxjW1fRAAVS6Xe5gI9nt5ijF3Yh-Z3PRqyuYZj_1U&m=1&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

#poetry #poetrycommunity #books @bookstodon #bookstodon #hope #motivation #inspiration #Egypt #Fediverse #interview #writer #writing #reading #today #JoinIn #boost #wednesday

PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO READ A POEM THAT HAS COST ME A LOT OF EFFORT AND PAIN

IT SHOULD SERVE ONLY ONE PURPOSE
IT SHOULD SHAKE YOU UP

PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE IN A RELATIONSHIP CAN HAVE FATAL CONSEQUENCES

LET US SHOW AS A COMMUNITY, AS HUMAN BEINGS, THAT WE WILL NOT TURN A BLIND EYE TO THIS

GIVE THESE WOMEN A VOICE, BECAUSE THEIRS IS SILENCED, HAS FEAR