The Joyful Empath

11/08/2024

Boost and share. Until we all are free.

Posted • Keep cops and courts out of our abortions. Increased surveillance, policing, and border militarization means more harm for people simply trying to get the care they need.

The Repro Legal Defense Fund provides financial help for people investigated or charged in criminal, family, or immigration court: ReproLegalDefenseFund.org

11/08/2024

Posted • Changes in our immigration system are coming in 2025 under the Trump administration. Protect yourself and your loved ones! Contact us by Friday, November 29th to schedule a free consultation. Al Otro Lado is offering free legal assistance to California residents state-wide who earn a low income and who may be eligible to file one of the following case types with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS):

🔹U-Visa
🔹Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
🔹Adjustment of Status (residency)
🔹Asylum
🔹DACA Renewal
🔹Citizenship
🔹Family-based petitions

Services can be provided virtually or in person. Space is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

To schedule a consultation, please send a WhatsApp message to 323-949-4593 or email karina@alotrolado.org.

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Es seguro que en 2025 se producirán cambios en nuestro sistema de inmigración bajo la nueva administración de Trump. ¡Protéjase y proteja a sus seres queridos! Comuníquese con nosotros antes del viernes 29 de noviembre para programar una consulta gratuita. Al Otro Lado ofrece asistencia legal gratuita a los residentes de California en todo el estado que tienen bajos ingresos y que pueden ser elegibles para presentar uno de los siguientes tipos de casos ante el Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de los Estados Unidos (USCIS):

🔹Visa U
🔹Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS)
🔹Ajuste de Estatus (residencia)
🔹Asilo
🔹Renovación de DACA
🔹Ciudadanía
🔹Peticiones basadas en la familia

Los servicios se pueden brindar de manera virtual o en persona. El espacio es limitado y se ocupará por orden de llegada.

Para programar una consulta, envíe un mensaje de WhatsApp al 323-949-4593 o envíe un correo electrónico a karina@alotrolado.org.

11/07/2024

We are not alone. Call on your ancestors (blood or identity based), your communities, your loved ones, the spirits of the land. Call on the warmlines. Let those who can hold you, hold you. We will keep building the sacred spaces of care, love, rage, rest, and resistance.
Until we all are free.
Until we all are free.
Until we all are free.

04/10/2024

Welcome to Art Making for the Revolution. This week I offer a poem I wrote on the prompt of hope, and an invitation to respond. We must find our own hope to center in and guide us through our actions for collective liberation. What is your breath of hope?

Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Land Back. Until we all are free.

Photo by Marieth Díaz on Pexels.com What is hope in these violent times? This is the prompt I explored with a kindred friend early on in October. When I

03/23/2024

Welcome to March week 2: Art Making for the Revolution. This week we explore the messaging we inherited about grief. As well as rituals and pathways to move with grief.

Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Land Back. Until we all are free.

So many of us do not have support to relate to grief. it can feel unbearable. What can a healing, supported pathway of grieving look like?

03/13/2024

Welcome to March week 1, Art Making for the Revolution. This week we explore the deeply important topic of divesting from communities complicit to genocide, unlearning individualism, and exploring what blocks us from liberatory community.

Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Land Back. Until we all are free.

As we witness the ongoing genocides, many are feeling isolated, defeated, and alone. Colonization and white supremacy thrive on our isolation. How can we find and engage with liberatory, mutually reciprocal community - and what messaging blocks us from doing so?

02/03/2024

Welcome to February! This week in Art Making for the Revolution we begin to explore the practice of liberatory anger as a path to healing, instead of the ways it so often gets silenced and pathologized.

Throughout the last few months I have witnessed escalated policing of the expression of liberatory anger within multiple communities. There has been tone

01/18/2024

Welcome to week 3: art making for the revolution! This week we are exploring spirituality and what an engaged, just, and liberation focused spiritual practice can look like.

May these prompts guide you on your path to liberation. May all oppressed peoples everywhere be free.

Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Until we all are free.

Welcome to week 3! This week we are exploring your relationship to spirituality, and what an engaged, liberation focused spiritual practice can look like.

01/10/2024

Welcome to week two: Art Making for the Revolution! This week I invite you to explore your relationship to working with your ancestors, known or unknown. It’s important for us to find the strength, wisdom, and connection of those who have come before to hold us on our paths. Especially now.

Growing up I heard very little about my ancestors. We are white, and my family taught me that we are Irish, French Canadien, and Blackfeet. We had a

12/31/2023

As this year closes, we are living through profound violence and suffering in this world. Many of us feel heart-broken, afraid, and helpless witnessing the multiple genocides around the world. Additionally, the devastation of colonization, imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and the resulting climate change, is affecting everyone. This new year has an opportunity to bring great change - internally and externally....

As this year closes, we are living through profound violence and suffering in this world. Many of us feel heart-broken, afraid, and helpless witnessing

12/22/2023

We will not be silent.

Indebted to the incredible wisdom, spirit, labor, and power of all those who created this statement. To the spirits of all those who came before, who created the paths that this statement could be made. And to the community of supporters of which I am proud to be part of, who showed that we are so far from alone here.

We will not be complicit to gen*cide.

As healers, we can never stop fighting for liberation and justice. Just as there can be no peace without justice, there can be no true healing without the path of liberation.

It is our job not to uphold the abusive systems of power around us. But to disrupt them.

Sign. Share. Make your voices heard. We can make change, together.

May you Free. May you Free. May you Free. May you Be. Home. 🗝️🍉