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What Would It Take? Part 2

America, an Avoidant America

Oct 10 • 

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NEW SERIES: “America, What Would It Take to Say Yes to Us?”

PART 1: Reciprocity, Belonging, and the Soil Being Tilled

Oct 1 • 

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September 2025

Democratic Socialism? Well, Why the F*ck Not, Jim?

Turns Out, ‘We the People’ Isn’t Capitalism or Communism

Sep 27 • 

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From Bootstraps to Belonging

Hey America, Maybe We Stop Gaslighting Ourselves?

Sep 20 • 

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Have You Mistaken Hard Work for Worth?

Discovering the third way: easeful participation.

Sep 10 • 

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Worthiness, You Old Hussy

Audacity built this country. Masochism nearly broke it. Worthiness might just save it.

Sep 6 • 

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August 2025

What the Fuck Is Socialism?

From Avocados to Amazon: Why the Word Everyone Fears Might Be the Guardrails We Need

Aug 24 • 

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Hijab, Fire, and the Poison We Carry

One story that exposed my ignorance—and why legislating faith is always dangerous

Aug 21 • 

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Doug Wilson, (aka Pastor D Biscuit) Triggers, and the 20% That Still Flinches

When an Idaho theocrat lights up your nervous system — and how to use that fire to get sharper instead of smaller.

Aug 10 • 

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Part One: The Architecture of Avoidance

A Substack essay in two parts

Aug 7 • 

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July 2025

Are We the Body, or the Virus?

Are we the body… or the thing killing it?

Jul 29 • 

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Avoidant, Funded, and Free

Dispatches from a Woman Who Didn’t Wait to Be Chosen

Jul 25 • 

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