CELEBRATING FRED SHORT
beloved friend, elder, runner, AIM brother, and spiritual advisor.
1946-2026
SATURDAY MAY 23, 2026 at 1PM
TODD GROVE PARK
600 live oak drive, ukiah, ca 95482
if you would like to come pay your respects, bring a chair to sit on if you need and a memory to share.
ALL ARE WELCOME
Our Brother Steven @ctoonz09 needs our support💯
He was targeted by DHS on March 25th, 2026 at MDC. We showed up in prayer, with the sage and wing... as we were praying DHS chased him down, tackled him to the pavement.
Charged with DEPRIDATION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY... other bogus charges may follow at the hearing.🤬
POST-INDICTMENT ARRAIGNMENT Hearing is on:
May 22nd, at 11:30am
Floor 6, Courtroom 640
255 East Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Updates will be posted here. PLEASE SHARE 🪶
i have zero regrets about every time i dropped out of school, had a life-changing side quest, grew deeper roots in communities i’m a part of, handled emergency after emergency, learned “social determinants of health” from community, took more classes, got pulled somewhere else, etc.
i wouldn’t have survived forcing myself to stay anywhere when my heart was calling me somewhere else; it would have been worse for me and my community. these institutions don’t have a monopoly on learning—i only have the knowledge i do because of community, love, intention, in and outside academia (mostly outside tbh!). i’m so proud of my younger, nightmare student self for fighting to ensure my education was MINE, never what anyone else tried to box me into.
i haven’t walked across a stage since middle school (including this time). a lot of people don’t believe an associate’s is something to celebrate, but i’m so glad to be surrounded by people who insist on enjoying life, dreaming big, and celebrating every win. i’m grateful to be back in academia with MY why, linked to my community’s belief in me, and the sacrifices they make for me to be here. being first gen doesn’t mean i come from stupid people; it means attending these institutions without letting our knowledge be extracted or exploited. it means carrying my books while sick, grieving, fighting for those not here, and holding on to liberation. i learn derivatives and lewis structures—even at funerals, hospitals, or while loved ones go missing — while trusting my community to hold it down.
still got 7 years til i get to serve as a doctor, prayers up that the journey gives us all medicine so we remember not to rush the goal. we joke in my family: a BS is “bullshit,” an MS is “more shit,” and a PhD is “piled higher and deeper.” the older i get, the more i understand—no institution could really teach what nature, relationships, disability justice, and Native values do, but since i need their paper to practice medicine, here we are. can’t wait to see you at the clinic—especially queer, native, and EDS/rare disease baddies.
thank you for helping me be here, more wins coming up for all of us, i know it <3
