Enjoying the American Library Association conference and meeting some amazing writers and poets. Hands down favorites for me: Patrisse Cullars, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, interviewed by Marley Diaz, a 13 year old powerhouse of insight who started the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign. Elizabeth Aceveda, whose poetry is straight from the gut, hit me square in the middle of my own poetry with that same desire to make the invisible and overlooked things we encounter daily into beings that demand to be looked at.
What is Unhindred?
Unhindered: free, unshackled, unburdened, without barriers, without fear.
Kindred: family, life, the interaction of human kin, animal kin, feather, fur, fin and scale kin, microscopic and macroscopic kin, plant kin, stone kin, earth kin, star kin, fey kin. The interactions between worlds, time, multiverses.
Unhindred: The wish for all beings to live unhindered, together, without fear of one dominating the other, without barriers that exclude and inhibit, without prejudice that says one side is ‘more’ than another, one creature more worthy of life than another. Life without the destruction of life, habitat without the elimination of other habitats, communication evolving beyond structured language to include all species.
This is possible. Not easy, but possible. The first step is listening not just to humanity, but to the earth.
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