🦋 Mikkelle 🦋
@mikkelle.bsky.social
poet ~ educator ~ learner
sunandmoonchild
views are my own
sunandmoonchild
views are my own
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🦋 Mikkelle 🦋
@mikkelle.bsky.social
· Nov 15
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
~ James Baldwin
#blacksky #addtoblacksky
~ James Baldwin
#blacksky #addtoblacksky
joy is essential
as much as you can muster in every given breath
but if you are not also
outraged
devastated, determined
you are not paying attention
as much as you can muster in every given breath
but if you are not also
outraged
devastated, determined
you are not paying attention
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
joy is essential
as much as you can muster in every given breath
but if you are not also
outraged
devastated, determined
you are not paying attention
as much as you can muster in every given breath
but if you are not also
outraged
devastated, determined
you are not paying attention
Your political views aren't just opinions.
They reveal your values, your capacity for empathy, and the way you view other human beings.
They reveal your values, your capacity for empathy, and the way you view other human beings.
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Your political views aren't just opinions.
They reveal your values, your capacity for empathy, and the way you view other human beings.
They reveal your values, your capacity for empathy, and the way you view other human beings.
Not everyone wants awareness.
Some people just want relief.
Curiosity demands humility, and most egos won't survive that.
(Warpaint Journal)
Some people just want relief.
Curiosity demands humility, and most egos won't survive that.
(Warpaint Journal)
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Not everyone wants awareness.
Some people just want relief.
Curiosity demands humility, and most egos won't survive that.
(Warpaint Journal)
Some people just want relief.
Curiosity demands humility, and most egos won't survive that.
(Warpaint Journal)
The wildest part of being alive is realising that the world holds unbearable pain and unreal beauty at the exact same time. And we're carrying both in our chests every single day.
(Warpaint Journal)
(Warpaint Journal)
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The wildest part of being alive is realising that the world holds unbearable pain and unreal beauty at the exact same time. And we're carrying both in our chests every single day.
(Warpaint Journal)
(Warpaint Journal)
perhaps the madness is necessary
idling normality
castrating complacency
we suffer for better truths
idling normality
castrating complacency
we suffer for better truths
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
perhaps the madness is necessary
idling normality
castrating complacency
we suffer for better truths
idling normality
castrating complacency
we suffer for better truths
“Sometimes I think 2019 was the last year that felt real. Since then everything's felt slightly distorted, like we slipped into an alternate version of the world and no one ever said it out loud.” (1)
@warpaintjournal
@warpaintjournal
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“Sometimes I think 2019 was the last year that felt real. Since then everything's felt slightly distorted, like we slipped into an alternate version of the world and no one ever said it out loud.” (1)
@warpaintjournal
@warpaintjournal
“Therapy helps but let’s be clear. You can’t CBT your way out of capitalism. You can’t mindfulness your way out of racism. You can’t self care your way out of oppression. You can’t journal your way out of ableism. This isn’t about coping, it’s about deconstructing the systems.”
~ Briana Mills
~ Briana Mills
October 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“Therapy helps but let’s be clear. You can’t CBT your way out of capitalism. You can’t mindfulness your way out of racism. You can’t self care your way out of oppression. You can’t journal your way out of ableism. This isn’t about coping, it’s about deconstructing the systems.”
~ Briana Mills
~ Briana Mills
We are pathologizing people for being affected by a world that is objectively unwell.
People are dissociating because it's unbearable.
People are anxious because they're paying attention.
People are depressed because they're stuck in systems that rob them of safety, connection, and hope.
N. Addesi
People are dissociating because it's unbearable.
People are anxious because they're paying attention.
People are depressed because they're stuck in systems that rob them of safety, connection, and hope.
N. Addesi
September 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We are pathologizing people for being affected by a world that is objectively unwell.
People are dissociating because it's unbearable.
People are anxious because they're paying attention.
People are depressed because they're stuck in systems that rob them of safety, connection, and hope.
N. Addesi
People are dissociating because it's unbearable.
People are anxious because they're paying attention.
People are depressed because they're stuck in systems that rob them of safety, connection, and hope.
N. Addesi
i no longer chase what confuses me just to prove that i can catch it
~ @seasoned_dialogue
🦋
indeed.
~ @seasoned_dialogue
🦋
indeed.
August 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
i no longer chase what confuses me just to prove that i can catch it
~ @seasoned_dialogue
🦋
indeed.
~ @seasoned_dialogue
🦋
indeed.
I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time.
~ James Baldwin
~ James Baldwin
August 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time.
~ James Baldwin
~ James Baldwin
preface ~
give a damn
read, seek, learn
about Sudan
@typicalafrican
give a damn
read, seek, learn
about Sudan
@typicalafrican
August 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
preface ~
give a damn
read, seek, learn
about Sudan
@typicalafrican
give a damn
read, seek, learn
about Sudan
@typicalafrican
“Malcolm-Jamal Warner was Black Boy Joy before the phrase was coined.”
- @globalgatzb
- @globalgatzb
July 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“Malcolm-Jamal Warner was Black Boy Joy before the phrase was coined.”
- @globalgatzb
- @globalgatzb
July 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
