Update: Climbing From A Descent As An Empire Falls (Part IV)

I want to start this post with something one of my favorite artists said on her Facebook, something I no longer access except through messenger for various reasons.

“Never Again is happening on our watch.”

Azam Ali, who works with the bands Vas and Niyaz and one of the most compassionate artists I know out there, speaks truth to power. She made a statement condemning atrocities done in Gaza; none of which have anything to do with hunting Hamas. Someone in response echoed what people told me when I condemned the war in Iraq: “go back to your country from which you came if you don’t like what we are doing.” This, does not show a care for free speech at all, yet people say we in the United States are in ‘the land of the free, home of the brave.’

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Update: Climbing From A Descent As An Empire Falls (Part III)

As we try to navigate this otherwise toxic terrain that is the United States of America’s politics, sometimes we can do all we wish with the best intentions and aware of ongoing issues and still stumble.

Hello, that was me a weekend ago. Before I go further, I will give a content warning of how I had taken for granted the delicacy of conversations around Hispanic, Latine-descended, and Spanish-descended identities. Though I understood this in theory, I had not awareness to the breadth ideal.

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Update: Climbing From A Descent As An Empire Falls (Part II)

I have been meaning to make a post like this for a few months. Projects kept burying me. Life kept happening. Then I got sick and found that something I had partially suspected confirmed, of someone having not just ghosted me by accident but intentionally so but in a manner that had also meant pretending nothing wrong to my face (but behind my back another matter). Such might not bother me so much except some years ago, the person spoke to me as a friend and said as much to others when I thought something off and I gave distance; so my betrayal traumas had been hit regardless of any intent. It had led me to research the phenomenon called ‘ghostlighting,’ defined as exactly what it sounds to some: ghosting combined with gaslighting, which has become more common online because of the lack of accountability online allows. Nonetheless, such issues are just specks of sand in a beach of grains representing all the problems in the world, and I wish to address these other grains in this post, instead.

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