Kristy

Facilitator of ecological-somatic inquiry for the sake of exorcising, integrating, dismantling the collective dissociation we call Empire.

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

@SubwayTakes @JLo So my mom who was born and raised in Spanish Harlem is a New Yorker, but my dad, born and raised in Yonkers, isn’t. This is fabulous. I’m sending this to them - she’s never gonna shut up about this one 😂

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

@caitoz oh my god how can they possibly get more cringy

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

The comments are also a real treat

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

@caitoz 👎🇮🇱👎

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

I want to describe the Middle Passage to you.

Not abstractly.

Specifically.

Enslaved people were loaded onto ships in West Africa at a ratio calculated to maximize profit after accounting for expected deaths in transit.

They were chained in holds with roughly eighteen inches of vertical space, unable to sit upright, lying in their own excrement for voyages that lasted between three weeks and three months.

Mortality rates on Middle Passage ships averaged between 10 and 20 percent.

On some voyages, significantly higher.

Historians estimate that between 1.5 and 2 million people died during the crossing, their bodies thrown into the Atlantic.

Those who arrived alive were washed, oiled to appear healthy, and sold on docks while buyers examined their teeth and bodies like livestock.

You described this system as "not necessarily a nightmare" and compared the labor that followed to picking crops in Africa.

I am not going to debate you on the merits of this position.

I am going to ask you to read what I just wrote.

And then I am going to ask you whether the problem is that you don't know this history, or that you know it and have decided it doesn't change your argument.

Because the answer to that question tells us something important.

Not about slavery.

About you.

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

@caitoz I LOVE that you talk about realizing these evil people are just humans. I've thought about that a lot - the way we make them god-like or alien and it reinforces feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness. When I make them right-sized in my mind, it feels like we have more options

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

@caitoz I love listening to you guys 😂

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

Real spirituality is less about being psychic or telepathic and more about dropping into your animal body and releasing all the colonial shame embedded in there. But remembering your precolonial shamelessness means ego deaths, so people often settle for performative spirituality.

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

I share a chunk of my soul with these two, I swear. I'm making my somatic practice about addressing this split, watch out mofos.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

So here's the thing: you actually do need to work on your trauma. Your inner wellbeing is in fact your responsibility.

I totally get the increasing pushback against the liberal emphasis on trauma and inner peace because of the way it shifts the burden onto the individual and lets the system off the hook — but the truth is we need both. The need for collective revolution doesn't excuse you from your responsibilities for your own actions as an individual, any more than your work as an individual takes the blame off the system for the abuses it inflicts upon the collective.

It is true that our society's focus on individual healing is used to deemphasize the need for systemic changes, but it is also true that many on the left use the abuses of capitalism and the fucked up nature of our society as an excuse to blame all their misery on the system instead of taking responsibility for their own inner condition and doing the hard, scary, confrontational work necessary to heal.

It is true that a huge amount of our stress and psychological issues are at least partially due to the economic and social pressures inflicted upon us by an unjust system. But it is also true that there are plenty of miserable people who have all their material and financial needs met, because they haven't healed their trauma and done their inner work. Utopia could dawn on us tomorrow and most of us would still find ways to make ourselves unhappy until we bring the inner tendencies which give rise to our suffering into consciousness.

We need both sides of the coin, and in fact each side of the coin complements the other. Just as a healthy system will lead to far less misery and dysfunction among individuals, doing your inner work as an individual will make you much more useful in bringing about the revolutionary changes necessary for the rise of a healthy system. You're not going to be any use to anyone in a revolution where you're too neurotic to function or get along with other people.

We all have problems that can't be fixed under the current status quo, and we all have inner wounds we won't be able to fully heal right away. But that doesn't mean we are powerless. Our happiness and inner clarity isn't fully bound to the whims of the ruling class. We can't fix everything, but we've all got a responsibility to do what we can, in our community and in ourselves.

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

Fucking hell, WE KNOW.

[Iran Army Media @IranArmyMedia]

Dear Americans,

Your President is a Pedophile

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Join us tonight. Emergency demonstration at the White House!!! Trump is a madman. His war on Iran must be stopped!!!

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I'm done trying to convince people not to use generative AI. You want to kill your critical thinking faculties? You want to lose the ability to write and create art? You want to make people like me look special and amazing because we can create things with our minds? Be my guest.

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

And you have to be able to be present with the physical discomfort that comes with changing your perception on an embodied level in order to genuinely change your beliefs. Curiosity is the door that opens it all.

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

Here's how you know someone is highly intelligent

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

@nxt888 In so many ways that is perhaps our more powerful work right now: not to try to determine if he is dead, but to openly state our desire for it, to express our disdain for his existence.

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

@TheEcho13 This is backwards from an evolutionary perspective. The childbearer is supposed to also serve the male? She's got her hands full growing and then raising a child. He needs to be serving her - the better he does that, the more likely his genetic legacy is successfully passed on.

[positive side of X 🌞 @positivityofx]

There is a challenge where you put your hand near your dog like you're going to pet them but don't actually pet them. Someone tried it on their bird and it was adorable.

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

If you believe your own thoughts about your life without question, you'll eat up all sorts of propaganda and societal lies without question too.

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

I have a new practice! It's too leftist and decolonial for X, but I'm super proud of her and am going to show her off anyway.

https://t.co/p0XgR9BUab

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

from: https://t.co/Ii34xDoRSO

[Kristy @dreamingforests]

"I have used AI many times as a brainstorming mechanism, a sounding board for early-stage ideas... every time I had an idea that was genuinely outside the box, AI discouraged me from pursuing it. When I persisted, it didn’t just push back, it practically begged me to stop."