Cervitude Creativity

creative meditations using critical creativity & radical imagination in arts based research supporting the Cervitude Coalition Inc. Support us on Patreon!

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

y/our tragedy
is believing
y/our responsibility
is inconvenient

#COVID #protestpoetry #criticalcreativity #radicalimagination #artsbasedresearch #GetVaxxed #WearADamnMask

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

Darkness is not the hour. Darkness is the policy.

#creativemeditation #artsprescription #poetry

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

The heart, tended, beats on.

#creativemeditation #artsprescription #poetry

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

There is a kind of poverty that this country creates and then steps back from, the way an arsonist admires the fire.

#poeticjustice #creativemeditation #artsbasedinquiry #anticapitalist

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

The heart is left of center.
It has always known which side it was on.

#poeticjustice #creativemeditation #artsbasedinquiry

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

https://t.co/3gc9azFBPJ

[Aasma Shaukat MD MPH @AasmaShaukatMD]

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💔

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

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

[Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056]

A COVID wave kills selected vulnerable people while making healthy people vulnerable.

You may be selected in the next wave.

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

Beware of freedom sold as convenience.

#creativemeditation

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

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.

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

Some of our arts based research seeks to transform pathogens from invisible threats into tangible collaborators, using artistic practice to metabolize collective trauma.

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

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,

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

Go beyond the routine, find your rhythm.

#creativemeditation #MentalHealthAwareness #Neurodivergent

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

Beyond owning, stay in relation.

#creativemeditation #embodiedcognitionshift

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

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

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

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

[Cervitude Creativity @createonthe8]

You’re not broken. You’re a soul still carrying weight from a time when the world broke open and never quite stitched itself back together.

[Randa Jarrar @randajarrar]

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.

[@DRJessieNYC 🇵🇸 @JessieNYC]

Sociologist here, and yes