creative meditations using critical creativity & radical imagination in arts based research supporting the Cervitude Coalition Inc. Support us on Patreon!
One of my former research assistants was killed by ICE in Minneapolis today😢
Alex was the kindest, sweetest human and a ICU nurse with a bright future ahead of him
May his soul rest in peace and this senseless carnage stop💔
A massive ice storm barreling through our country that can collapse power lines across regions feels like Mother Earth mirroring the socio-political climate that in the US right now.
The lessons are many but what will we learn?
#artsbasedinquiry
a staccato refrain against the asphyxiation of state violence. Yet in decolonizing vocal music therapy, breath transforms from stolen commodity to sacred technology—a means of rewiring trauma’s grip while composing fugitive futures.
Some of our arts based research seeks to transform pathogens from invisible threats into tangible collaborators, using artistic practice to metabolize collective trauma.
The same diaphragm that fuels protest chants once faltered beneath the knee of empire. “I can’t breathe” echoes as both elegy and indictment: a phrase that began as Eric Garner’s mortal truth in 2014 became the arrhythmic heartbeat of a movement,
As a shape shifter, moving between the living and the dead, I am co-creator of all that is and all that will be, whether it’s remembered or not.
- living with depression
#creativemeditation#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
When bodies become rifles,
breath becomes bullets and breathing kills like an AK-47.
The carnage lies within, revealing itself with time.
- killing us softly
#creativemeditation#COVIDisAirborne#Measles#guns
Nothing I used to care about is important anymore. Prizes, publications, jobs? Theyre all what Fanon called "the spoils." All I want to do is help my people and work for liberation. Nothing else matters anymore.