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my Final Home
Will Always be
New York City
rare effeminacies
creative fluency
And Sentience in death
tenderly Hold me
Like a snake
made of my own body
In New York
In New York
Marsha p Johnson on the Christopher Street piers, Easter 1976. She was 30 years old. photo by Peter Hujar
what is a real mother
how does she love me unconditionally
how does she show me how to live
such that i inhabit her footsteps
as a ghost following blind
the perfume of her love
Marsha wears the symbol Om (or Aum) representing a sacred sound, mantra, and invocation in Hinduism as well as in other Indian religions. Its written form is the most important symbol in the Hindu religion. It is the essence of the supreme Absolute, consciousness, Ātman, Brahman, or the cosmic world. In Indian religions, Om serves as a sonic representation of the divine, a standard of Vedic authority and a central aspect of soteriological doctrines and practices.It is the basic tool for meditation in the yogic path to liberation. (from wikipedia)
Our new episode, Notes from the Edge of Climate Change, drops today.
For this Earth Day, we speak to Anohni, Julian Aguon, and Dr. Kristina Hill about the Pacific — where the water is rising faster than in most parts of the world, where some island nations are already executing permanent migration plans for their citizens, and storms and floods are hitting our homes with greater frequency and force.
And don’t miss the Bay Area’s own Terisa Siagatonu!
Tune in tonight to KALW 91.7 at 7pm, check your local NPR station listings, or stream/download now wherever you get your podcasts.
For a deeper dive, be sure to check out the Notes From The Edge newsletter, including footnotes from the edge and resources on how to support those in Hawai’i and the Marianas who have been devastated by the recent storms and floods:
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ANOHNI: WILDERNESS in London, Thursday
its final iteration
in a world that's really hurting
thankyou Nina Simone thankyou Kazuo Ohno
thankyou Otis, Elizabeth, Diamanda, Little Jimmy, thankyou Peter Hujar, Candy, Bobby and Chloe, Jack Smith, Marsha and Silvia, Charles, Selda, Benazir, Kembra, Billie, Billy, Leigh, Buffy, Maria, Siouxsie, thankyou wild life, thankyou sharp teeth of creativity, for helping me to live xxxx
#whatsgoingon
Paris last night was so magic
#itstimetofeelwhatsreallyhappening #4degrees #bloodonthedoor #motherlesschild #futurefeminism
photos by Joji Koyama @jojikoyama and Shaun MacDonald @damnitignacio
