sophia emilia Aguiñaga

I need you to know what's killing Black people. Is it police violence? Absolutely. It's been on everyone's mind since 2020. But, what may not yet be clear to you is that the infinitely nuanced and complex nature of systemic racism breeds a host of other threats to Black life. Countless threats, both subtle and overt, many of which are so commonplace you may hardly notice them. Maybe you even participate. And yet, we feel each of them, and they're killing us just as readily as

my dream, the moon pulled you out of me just as i began to seek you and since i've neither been sleeping nor awake entranced and dancing...

One of the most perverse facets of racism discourse is that, because it’s so often the oppressed doing the teaching, the perception is...

Let me tip you off to an element of the game that's been co-opting the movement for Black lives for centuries. It's called "interest...

This is a centuries old Black-led movement - you finally reading “Me & White Supremacy” doesn’t qualify you to teach or lead a single thing.

Please stop sharing violent images and footage of Black people being murdered. There are just... so many other options.

Don’t buy the propaganda, don’t participate in the gaslighting which conflates counter-violence with violence. Stop flinching and calibrate.

When you find someone who deserves love in a way you never knew existed, who deserves more patience and kindness than you’ve ever seen...

Compassion is a practice, a muscle to build, a skill to hone. It creates space inside of us, space to see beyond ourselves and understand...

I ache for a deeper kindness, gentleness, patience, and appreciation for the black man. For every version of him which exists. His...

If even one person better understood how you came to be, how a person as good and passionate as you could be forged, the world would...

happiness is not bliss, elation wordless comfort and its pleasure she is all those she is far more she is too challenge, breaking...

it is our Work to create the very thing we feel is missing in this world the thing we wished we’d had or still do (responsible)

see it let it overwhelm you let it disarm you let it make you cry approach this world with recognition of its beauty and never again take...

you said “come here” and I became the sea meeting the shore endlessly (encounter)

to be tamed it must first be wild we are all born uncivilized we are all born with claws (fairy tales)

Life realized itself in me, the flower climbing from its seed through the darkness to sprout, for it heard you, my sunshine, calling. I...

the heart that loves you greater in one beat than all the other hearts of this world beating as one forever (soulmate)

freedom is not the dream freedom is our capacity willingness devotion to carry the weight of the dream over the mountain of reality...

i am the strength and woe of my mothers the work and ache of my fathers the nurturer and beast inside each one the horror and torment of...