not the phoenix, the fire | Tasha Fierce

TASHA FIERCE

TASHA FIERCE is a queer Black disabled nonbinary femme writer, artist, crisis doula, facilitator, and mystic residing in the occupied Tongva territory known as Los Angeles.

a light skinned Black nonbinary femme with glasses and locs smiles at the camera

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there are alive things & dead things & things that

there are alive things & dead things & things that look dead that might look alive again if you give them a little extra care and attention. i’m feeling pretty dead these days, but the garden always reminds me it’s never over until your roots are gone.

at forty, my roots are strong. strong enough that despite my numbness i don’t need to scratch myself to reveal what life teems under the surface. dormancy, decay: these are also states of being. i carry the potential for growth, i remain a vital part of the ecosystem, no matter how dead i feel inside.

my roots are breath, communion, love, art, & working towards a just future. as long as i can engage in those things in one form or another, i’ll be okay.

#MagicalDepressiveRealism #GardenWisdom #Depression #Anxiety #Dissociation #DissociativeIdentityDisorder #PTSD

This moment in time feels like The End for a lot o

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choose your reality.

consensus reality is a postmodern concept, based in the idea that reality is inherently subjective. what we all “agree” is real, is real.

that means “reality” is highly influenced by systems of oppression.

we are currently living within multiple consensus realities. the dominant, liberal/neoliberal consensus reality is the WSSCAIP (White Supremacist Settler Colonialist Ableist Imperialist cisheteroPatriarchy), which has us grinding ceaselessly yet somehow still at each other’s necks for scraps, and which is responsible for: the destruction of the planet, the colonization and genocide of the Indigenous peoples of turtle island and around the world, the enslavement, colonization, and genocide of African peoples, etc.

there are fascist/alt-right/neoconservative realities which derive from the main consensus reality but are invented fantasies, branches in the timeline. qanon, for example, believes instead of cishetpatriarchs and capitalists, the world is run by a pedophile cult. fox news taught us climate change is a hoax, and that covid isn’t real/was engineered by china. etc.

i clearly don’t agree with the realness of any of that shit. i agree that the WSSCAIP exists, yes. but is it part of what i
consider my reality? not exactly.

swipe to find out more about my reality, and maybe yours too.

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#magicaldepressiverealism #liberatorymadness #madness #madpride #madliberation #mad #crazy #crazypride #depression #dissociativeidentitydisorder #dissociation #anxietyrecovery #anxiety #psychosis #adhd #ptsd

i made this witch ladder for some full/new moon...

i made this witch ladder for some full/new moon... maybe in aquarius? leo? icr, time is an illusion anyway, but i am happy with how it turned out.

couldn’t do it justice w a pic so, we also have video ✨

#witchesofinstagram #witchesofinstagram🔮🌙

i had this as a potential essay title in my notes,

i had this as a potential essay title in my notes, then i fell in love with the statement as an art piece...
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algorithms are sets of rules and instructions for AI/computer program behavior. social media apps like this one use algorithms to serve up your timeline and make recommendations on accounts you might like, among other things. increasingly algorithms are being used in law enforcement, the justus system, philanthropy, the financial industry, education, just about everywhere.

algorithms make decisions based on reality. they look at our preferences, our actions, and encourage us to continue moving along the same path.

on the social media tip, we see this in action when we're wanting to put the phone down and rest but these apps keep serving up more enraging content, or they suddenly show you a random like on your post, or a new interesting account, that's the algorithm. it enables our habits.

on the societal tip, we see an example of this in predictive policing—law enforcement algorithms designed to predict criminality. the algorithm will predict that a Black person is more likely to commit crime because our societies disproportionately convict and incarcerate Black people. algorithms perpetuate the existing anti-Black white supremacist consensus reality.

(there is no social data that is not biased by the interlocking systems of oppression we exist within. until we are liberated, these algorithms will merely perpetuate our subjugation.)

we see how algorithms are exacerbating existing inequalities in the content of social media apps themselves, in the outright prejudice against Black, queer, disabled, and other marginalized creators shown by tiktok and youtube, in how our fundraisers for basic needs are deprioritized. dating apps are another example of this. we might want to be accomplices, we say we are anti-racist and anti-ableist, that deep in our hearts we know trans women are women, rah rah, but our recommendations, our swipes, our likes, reveal otherwise.

the algorithm does not prioritize our survival because our societies do not prioritize our survival.
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#abolition

folks, i still need to raise $1289 so i can 1) pa

icymi: check out the #disabilityjustice webinar i

icymi: check out the #disabilityjustice webinar i facilitated with @itsjust_laurent for @la.spoonie.collective & @fireweedcollectivehj !

Posted @withregram • @la.spoonie.collective Our #DisabilityJustice101 webinar with @fireweedcollectivehj is up on Vimeo! Link in our bio. If you’d like to bring LASC to your school/business/org, visit us online. https://vimeo.com/456456889
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clips from patreon, july-aug. i post poetry and so

clips from patreon, july-aug. i post poetry and sometimes art on patreon, but mainly my patreon is a strand in my care web. i’m hoping to grow it into one of those huge over-the-river kinda webs. link is in my linktree but i’ll also toss it down here: patreon.com/tashafierce

will you help me survive and create by becoming a sustaining donor? 💗

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