An Archive of the first 13 issues of my free newsletter, The Free List. Sign up for future issues here: https://jillianwalker.ck.page/57cf25187e
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THE FUTURE IS NOT FIXED / SIT AT THEIR FEET Siri, play Tony, Toni, Toné 's "Anniversary". :0D It has been thirteen full moon cycles since I started The Free List, yall. Thirteen moons is, for many indigenous cultures worldwide, considered a full year (as opposed to Pope
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I BELIEVE WE MAY HAVE STRUCK GOLD IN THE MIDDLE OF DISASTER; AN EMAIL IN THREE MOVEMENTS. /1/ (||: Whitney—she is like the Ocean. Does the Ocean have friends? The Ocean speaks. We listen. But in the end, we fill her with plastic. We Feel Bad About It, but we
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RAGE AND HARVARD All I have this month, as I wade through the latest roll call of devastations and prepare for my cousin Bobbie Jean’s zoom memorial service on Saturday; is the Cosmos. That’s it. The Cosmos. I am compelled to respond somehow to this maddening landscape. I
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TO THE ONES WHO'VE STARTED PRAYING AGAIN .: Shoutout to the acupunturists. :. The ones taking horticulture classes in between acting jobs And yoga teacher-trainings after violin and after budget meetings Shoutout to the ones creating non-profits right now And the ones hiring life coaches and going to therapy for
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REMEMBER THE BEADS YOU WORE The end of the world doesn’t look anything like you’ve been taught to think. Put away the John Cusack movies commiserate with oversimplified, Abrahamic frames; and the one with The Rock in it where Cali falls into the ocean. That one, too. The
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THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU / RISK THE FIRE The form does not exist. We are making it up right now. We are bridging it with our breath. The words carry on the oxygen atoms and they architect the truths of our children. This is the future. Now. This is
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A MORE PRIMAL GOSPEL 📍 You know that point where you get tired of explaining yourself? When you realize that no one has asked you to, so why are you doing it? I’m at that point. Since the veils thinned and the air crisped and the leaves bloodied and fell,
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THE GOD HAS BECOME SUPERFLUOUS // song as direct connection to ancestors >> I talk about music or a song, rather, as something that arises or rises above the surface. The music is always present and sometimes it enters the realm of the heard, but it is not that when
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GIVE HER HERE “If love cannot exist without mutuality, And mutuality cannot be real without freedom If freedom is 'the ability to Be in truth without retaliation.' ((retaliation)) If If love is not possession Subjugation Manipulation Hold hold hold on-- If you have touched me for centuries without
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RECON : FIGURE A Way Message ::. Hello! Thank you for your email! I am frustrated and irritated to use precious typing skills to tell you that sending an email to me does not entitle you to a response. I know that you believe it does. This is racist. I mean, “cultural.
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A BEYONCÉ RANT, OR, PEOPLE ACT LIKE BEYONCÉ FELL FROM THE SKY Ok. Just want to give a bit of context. When Beyoncé announced her new visual album, "Black Is King," there was a blacklash (that's black people backlash). I'm sure there was also
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SOME OF US ARE FUGITIVES SHOUTING OVER OUR SHOULDERS SOME THOUGHTS ON TIME When I say that time is running concurrently, I mean that the past is working and reworking right now and also that the future is here. I am saying that time travel is factual—not conceptual—and