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Food Deserts Are Spiritual Violence: Reclaiming Nourishment as a Sacred Act
In Black and brown communities, lack of food access isn’t just a policy failure — it is a severing from ancestral knowledge and the food sovereignty Black communities once held sacred. This post names food deserts as a continuation of systemic harm, then turns toward the power of community-led reclamation rooted in indigenous wisdom. There is a particular kind of hunger that has nothing to do…
Ubuntu: The African Philosophy of "I Am Because We Are"
Solarpunk Tumblr is a little piece of joy that restores hope and renews vision.
Like, I grew up in a city with a fragile ecosystem and small floral kingdom. I grew up in a country wherein the roots of Ubuntu run deep (faint, at times, but deep). I grew up a child of missionaries who taught me to exegete and, to some degree*, had been led and inspired by anti racists of their time (inner city Louisville in the 80s).
When I moved back to the US, the Christianity I saw was not what I had been taught. The ethos was consumerism, not consideration. The environment was exploited, not protected. I grew weary of being the radical, leftist, ecohippie at my Christian college, medical school, residency, and job. I've gotten quieter and quieter over the years about humanism, native endemic gardening, and even my faith.
Seeing the existence of solarpunk as a movement - and not a small movement - restores some of that optimism, where I had thought it dead. It's refreshing to know I'm not alone and, while many in the solarpunk movement might not be Christian, I find that it still meshes and fits with the faith I was initially taught, that our world and every thing and person in it is a beautiful creation, a masterpiece, and that it is our responsibility, our very first and most primal job, to shepherd and steward it, to maintain it and allow it to thrive, for itself, each other, and the one who I believe gave it to us.
(*and, granted, my parents, like most boomers, became colorblind, missed unconscious bias and systemic racism, and fixated on abortion, but, for the time I was in their house, they actively corrected overt racism and discussed the racist harms of US history)
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Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’
By Abeba Birhane
According to Ubuntu philosophy, which has its origins in ancient Africa, a newborn baby is not a person. People are born without ‘ena’, or selfhood, and instead must acquire it through interactions and experiences over time. So the ‘self’/‘other’ distinction that’s axiomatic in Western philosophy is much blurrier in Ubuntu thought. As the Kenyan-born philosopher John Mbiti put it in African Religions and Philosophy (1975): ‘I am because we are, and since we are, therefore I am.’
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Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu
Ubuntu motto
“I am what I am because of who we all are”
“Io sono ciò che sono in virtù di ciò che tutti siamo”
As someone who falls somewhere in the centrist postliberal/communitarian/Ubuntu philosophy camp of political philosophy, I worry that postliberalism and communitarianism in the US are being subsumed by the right and becoming synonymous with some of the far right movements, like JD Vance, which is not necessarily what these philosophies are.
They are neither Left, Right, or Center, but rather describe philosophies standing in contrast to stark individualism and acknowledge the communal nature of society and individuals.
It is not inherently Christian Nationalist cottagecore philosophy
Women Carry the World: A Tribute for International Women’s Day 2026
Introduction to International Women’s Day 2026 International Women’s Day is more than a calendar date—it’s a moment to honor the legacy, strength, and vision of women across the globe. It serves as a call to reflect on a truth long woven into the fabric of our communities: women are the foundation, nurturers, innovators, and protectors of the collective good. Their work, both visible and unseen,…
