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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𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴

𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 is the poem i read/modified for the @sbcommunitycare #sayhername vigil yesterday. (the original, "my ancestors had dreams wilder than this," is from THE SELF IS A LANDSCAPE & is up for purchase at the @mysticferocious shop in my bio link). it was written in reaction to those claims of the Black excellents, the college graduates & hood escapees & CEO-types & politicians & such, that they (we) are the wildest dreams of our ancestors. i don't believe that to be the case at all. i believe our ancestors had much wilder dreams, for us & for themselves. i mean, i know i have wilder dreams for my own self. i'm tryna get free, like not free within an unfree world free, not free cuz i got oprah money, but FREE. me, you, all of us.
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Black representation within a white supremacist system is not a substitute for radical change, period. audre taught us, "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," & folding our magnificence into respectability so we can succeed within a capitalist system counts as one of the master's tools to my mind. succeeding within this system via traditional means, hell ANY means to some extent, means the elite can point to you & say "the system isn't racist/sexist/cisheterosupremacist, these other people are just undeserving." when what you are is lucky & what those other folks are is typical. but you yourself may internalize this belief, & begin wondering why THOSE PEOPLE don't invest that shoe money so they can succeed like you did, or start hassling fam to go back to school because surely that will lead to a well-paying job & not just a ton of debt & a job
that barely pays it.
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all this to say, if you have to use the master's tools, do so with care. don't let yourself become one of them. & don't let anyone tell you our ancestors' wildest dreams were some Black capitalist nightmare.

#blackart #blackartist #blackpoets #blackpoetry #afrofuturism #ntozakeshange #lucilleclifton #audrelorde

i read some of my poetry today for folks and i put

i read some of my poetry today for folks and i put on makeup to do it, therefore i had to take fiftyleven pics. our lighting sucks but with makeup on my flyness is teflon so it don’t matter

LOL i’m gonna do it... #thisis40 and hit em with a #femmesoverforty too while i’m at it.

always #disabledandcute
always bringing #blackfemmemagic

Posted @withregram • @afterhours_creative I’ve

Posted @withregram • @afterhours_creative I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting and learning lately on both Black and Indigenous cultures through many books, documentaries, movies and music.

I’ve cried, I’ve laughed, I’ve grieved - but mostly I’ve been in awe. I’m in awe over just how strong and resilient these cultures are and how much shit they’ve been through and continue to go through- and yet after all that, all they want is justice and equality. It’s not just political, it’s a basic human rights issue.

One of the other things in common that I found was how sacred braids are to the cultures both historically and present. I was wanting to somehow honour this so I created these posts as a way to educate and bring awareness to the beauty and history of braids. If their hair could talk...

Posted @withregram • @princessamugo Hello everyo

Posted @withregram • @princessamugo Hello everyone! I am apart of a new organization called the South Bay Collective Org and we are organizing, along with the other orgs mentioned, a Celebration of Life/#SayHerName Vigil on Sunday the 28th centering the Black lives who are the most marginalized: Black women (both trans and cis)and Black Queer women, Black Gender non comforting folks, Black non-binary folks aka those who face both state violence and gender violence. We would love for those who are here to support and care for these Black lives to come thru it’s going to be an amazing event. There’s so much love, care and thoughtful intention being put into it so pls come thru so we can build relationships and community with one another to join this struggle against state and gendered violence calling for abolishment of policing and an investment into community care! Events like this don’t usually happen in the South Bay and we want to make sure that more spaces like these are being cultivated down here! We want to start organizing ourselves but for that to happen we must build the relationships that already exist down here. Share this post HMU your interested in volunteering or becoming apart of this org.

kinda sorta father’s day post. 🙊 this is me

kinda sorta father’s day post. 🙊

this is me and my dad last july 4. my smile is so genuine. i can remember how optimistic i felt about the year ahead in this pic. things didn’t go as i thought they would but that’s one more reason why i need to let go of outcomes and certainty.
speaking of outcomes and certainty, i turned out pretty good despite not having my dad as a major presence in my life growing up (or ever, to be honest, but it’s okay). i wasn’t certain i would make it to this point, not just because of my lack of father figure but also myriad other reasons. thankfully i had other folks to help care for me. and thankfully i had the sense to raise my own self up as a Black person and educate myself on my culture and history and what we need to do to get free.

so, happy father’s day to my mom and my late grandpa and my dad, but today it’s mostly happy father’s day to me, because the divine masculine within is a mosaic of my own creation.

Posted @withregram • @lakshmiintheworld Hey heal

Posted @withregram • @lakshmiintheworld Hey healing justice and other folks: check out this piece by Whitney Spencer, Black queer former worker at the podcast formerly know as Healing Justice Podcast, now known as Irresistible, about the anti Black racism and ableism she faced on the job there and in the project in general . https://medium.com/@whitneyannespencer/an-open-letter-a-call-for-true-healing-justice-d37d7d7d6c21. this is a generous and full of integrity call for accountability that asks real questions about cultural appropriation of the framework of healing justice by a white person. Support Whitney’s asks for an apology and accountable process to be completed. Link in bio.

Posted @withregram • @harrietsapothecary When vi

Posted @withregram • @harrietsapothecary When violence soaks our bones heavy, its easy to forget what is true.
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* Remind us we are the ocean. The same 14 billion year old atoms that make up the seas are a part of us. We are the ocean in human form. *
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* When the echoes of violence are mixed with the salt water of our tears, show us that the universe chose to weave us with the same intelligence of stars.
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Remind us how to soften at the pace of the Earth. Slow enough to re-ignite our connection and feed our imagination. *
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* Forgive us for how we’ve inherited how to cause pain. The Earth is not a burial ground for our shortcomings. *
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* Remind our pain and resilience they can co-exist. They have much to learn from one another. *
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* Ignite our no. Our hard boundaries against loving capitalism more than we love the People*
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* we are proof healing is possible. May we move with this possibility as we nurture the rubble of our broken tender hearts, and tend to the violence at the hands of the state
#summersolstice

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“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us!” - Marsha P. Johnson ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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Celebrating Black trans lives because Black #translivesmatter ❤️❤️ ⁣⁣⁣
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“𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘸” - 𝘧𝘵 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘰 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘻 + 𝘉𝘠𝘗𝟷𝟶𝟶 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘳 (𝘖𝘯𝘙𝘪𝘻𝘻𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘹) #defundthepolice

📸: @therevolutionwillbefunded dear white folks

📸: @therevolutionwillbefunded

dear white folks, we will begin to believe you are repentant when you put your money where you claim your heart is and give your money to Black and Indigenous communities.

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE FUNDED is a directory of Black folks accepting reparations / in need of financial support.
#juneteenth
#blacklivesmatter #reparations

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