anger is our super power 🌪
killlerrrrrr words by Bree Newsome
Hi friend, what resources do you have to share?
I have been feeling angry lately, I am in constant rewiring with my anger, if feelings are our super powers then so is anger. Anger can be just as powerful as kindness, or love or any mix of positive pink cursive writing Instagram wants us to believe. There is no binary in which change happens or doesn't happen and we don't need spiritual bypassing or gas lighting of our sensations to find liberation.
On the surface I agree with being kind, is typically pretty easy for me, and it is a resource I usually have to share, but it's not the only way. I disagree that kindness is a free resource because the basic needs that allow kindness to be fostered are currently being withheld under capitalism. Kindness is an avenue to change, I don't think anyone has ever been lectured into changing their mind but also I have 0 problem with protesters pulling down a racist statue in the park after "kindness", ie: bureaucratic channels, have failed. We are shutting down the real important life changing work with the discussion of whether or not the avenue to action is right or wrong. This is how as a collective, we stay small, unchanged, in the status quo. The avenue can be strategized, but the end goal (radical world change, compassion for one another) is not up for negation.
Anger can be an inroad for change. It can be as radical and revolutionary as ~ KINDNESS~. Hold space for the galaxy of superpowers and feelings inside of you.
Also, I am not being clear enough. I am fully vaccinated, and WOW I LOVE HUGGING MY FRIENDS. I don't know all of the things inside of the vaccine (although there are LOTS of resources to find out what!) but I also don't look at the ingredients on Doritos each time i shove them in my face and I put those in my body.
I have opened my booking for Fall 2021 1:1 Creative Advising. Creative advising is for artists to collect feedback on a project, small business owners that want to infuse more creativity into their work, people that feel far from their creativity and want to get closer to it.
Some outcomes and topics to explore are defining what role creativity can play in your life, accessing more play and freedom in art, project feedback and portfolio development, launching products, professional development and learning how to talk about yourself and your art or maybe using anger as a tool for expression and action.
Anger can be a tool if we let it. Use anger to make your (bad) art.
Okay Shoe has FREE SHIPPING from now till the end of August so I can help clear some room to keep paying all the beautiful artists I get to work with. AKA I hate how capitalism treats artists so I use my anger to create equity for artists where I can 🥵
big blessings for anger and action and utilizing the full spectrum of feeling for world change
I love you
xx
phoebe
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