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Be in accordance with how your image is flowing, growing with you. Trust the vessel you hold enough to ripple away from mimicking, mirroring the ways of being of others. You have the right to opacity / to vanish / to be intangible. Transcend the fear of being an inevitably haunting "irruptive difference".
on smarginatura, the right to opacity, and the tales in between.
I bet the beach is missing me
Kerry James Marshall
Study for ‘Slow Dance’ (1992)
enjoy :)
notes on living
sometimes I just sit in a corner and acknowledge how deeply I yearn for connections that nurture the mind and soul, that hold spirit with tenderness, that are genuine and loving and caring, without requiring self betrayal and compromises
it's my birthday tomorrow. i'm a queer unfamilied se asian multiply disabled by neglect and abuse, and i've been navigating worsening complications following brain injury by myself. i'm stuck having hallucinations, nightmares, disordered thinking and non stop intrusive thoughts and feelings. i haven't slept properly in almost five months. i'm so scared and i'm so tired. i haven't been able to keep up with communicating and meeting any of my needs and i haven't been able to explain the ways this injury has affected my ability to. i'm behind on rent and appointment money and meds and food and i've been increasingly falling closer towards a situation where i'm brought under the "care" of the abusers i fled from nine years ago.
in order of priority, i'm $218 short on rent due in a few days. i found a mh practitioner who could work w me sliding scale for $50 minimum per session so hoping for $300 to hold out and stay alive thru isolation til my neuropsych referrals go through. for replenishing the meds i ran out of i need $238. for upcoming tcm appts to manage my pain and symptoms while i'm waiting for western diagnosis and treatment i need $306. please help me get out of this cycle.
paypal.me/disabledoracle
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pls consider helping a queer se asian femme disabled by systemic abuse this pride month
hey all. i've been pursuing neurological and neuropsychiatric care amidst my own brain decline to no avail since the start of this year with my extremely limited energy. seven referrals have been rejected or bounced between specialisations since this started, the treating doctor whose treatment gave me meningitis that led to my decline has been cancelling my appointments and never followed through on promised imaging and intervention, and my symptoms are fucking unbearable. i'm keen to access medical cbd thru a telehealth clinic to attempt to get some degree of relief and the appointment would be this thursday - i'd need $100 for the appt and would have to update with the cbd prescription cost. any help greatly appreciated ~
paypal.me/disabledoracle
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let my spirit be seen in fullness!
hi i've had a psychotic break or some kind of neuro decline after the severe decline in my already poor health after the past few months unmedicated and struggling to meet my basic needs. my nutrition is pretty poor rn too. can i pls get funds for cooked meals and meds asap
paypal.me/disabledoracle
hi! what i've received so far i've spent on meals. hoping to see doctor this friday which is like $55, get an LDN script as bare minimum this week which is $50 to refill! my other essential scripts that help me eat without allergy are $120+80.
Needed $20 more for long appt, received $150.61 minus the transfer still on hold so currently $175 off my goal for meds to help me eat. Thanks
Need this amount by Monday! I’m out of most of the supplements that have historically helped me (virtually as much as my meds) because they’ve been lowest priority in rolling crises but I had an extremely disheartening appt with my doc today, both neuros and psych are away for all of April and my neuro left without requesting promised urgent brain imaging again, so anything extra would be so appreciated so I can at least get back onto some of my usual and see if they help
Transfer came off hold - $100 off initial meds goal and too sick to work out the supps just yet
$156 received thank u, $100 to meds and $56 happened to basically be exact for the melatonin I forgot I ran out of and still in need of extra for supps.
supps 36.99 + 50 + 79.95 + 64.95. getting literally any of them would be super appreciated
notes on living
Jason de Caires Taylor, The Silent Evolution, Isla Mujeres, Mexico. There’s a great video of the installation here.
patricia franca and toni garrido in orfeu (1999)
Day 2! Welcome back!
Did you know that names hold power? They root us in our pasts, shape our presents, and guide us toward our futures. So when it came time to rebuild my nonprofit organization, to start anew, the name had to mean something. Admittedly, Embodied Futures Collective (EFC) came to me in a dream! But when I looked closer, I realized it was always meant to be ours!
Embodied: Because the futures we seek are not distant, abstract things. We hold them within us. We are the future!
Futures: Because there is no singular path to liberation. There are many ways forward, many possibilities, many truths that can and must coexist. The shift from singular (Future) to plural (Futures) was intentional—a rejection of rigid blueprints, an embrace of multiplicity. And still, it calls back to our roots, to Better Future Program (BFP), reminding us that even as we evolve, we carry our history with us.
Collective: Because none of us walk this path alone. The only way we have survived is together, and the only way forward is through community. This is a recognition of the love, labor, and resilience that has held us up time and time again.
And maybe it’s just coincidence, or maybe it was meant to be—but EFC rhymes with BFP. A quiet echo of where we’ve been, carried into where we’re going.
The name matters. It holds all the lessons we’ve learned, all the hopes we still carry. It is a reminder that we are still here, still imagining, still building something real.
So, welcome to the Embodied Futures Collective (EFC)! We hope you stay a while.
— Reaux (she/they)
How do you write a mission statement that says everything you need it to say—without saying too much?
When we set out to define the Embodied Futures Collective (EFC)’s mission, we knew one thing for sure: we couldn’t be everything.
BFP had tried—not out of aimless ambition, but out of what felt like necessity. As an organization run entirely by multiply marginalized youth, we lived with a daily urgency that those with privilege often only experience during heightened political crises. Everything felt necessary to tackle because everything was, in fact, tied to our survival.
But trying to do everything took its toll. Our old mission statement reflected this:
Our mission is to globally expand peer-led political education, support, and imagination for marginalized youth.
It was beautiful, ambitious. But it stretched us thin. It framed our Liberation Library—the resource hub we were most known for—as just one of many things we did. And that wasn’t sustainable.
So, the first step was to refocus. What was the one thing we wanted to build our organization around? The answer was clear: the Liberation Library, of course. Our 3,000+ free resources!
From there, we asked: what makes this library different?
We wanted to emphasize that it wasn’t just an archive of resources—it was a radical, living, breathing body of knowledge rooted in lived experience, history, and critical thought.
And so, after rounds of edits, word-swaps, and deep discussions, we landed on this:
Our mission is to intentionally cultivate an accessible, global library rooted in revolutionary, decolonial, and embodied wisdoms.
We loved it. It felt true. But then came the question of accessibility.
My father—who has guided me through every business interaction since BFP began—gave his assessment immediately: "These big words are going to turn people away."
And he wasn’t wrong. Decolonial. Embodied wisdoms. They are words that hold depth, but for those unfamiliar, they can also feel intimidating. But as one of our youth put it: "I like that mission statement—it’s vague enough to leave room for a lot of practices & intentions."
So, our Collective sat with two new tensions:
Accessibility vs. Intentionality. How do we make the statement easy to understand without watering it down?
Rigidity vs. Openness. How do we define our work clearly while still leaving space for growth?
For now, we have chosen to keep the words as they are. We want to test this version first—to challenge our youth to rise to it, rather than assume from the start that it is too difficult. But we are not leaving them to figure it out alone. Instead, we have committed to making these words lived. Everyone in EFC is prepared to explain what these words mean—to ensure that when people ask, we don’t just define them, we embody them.
If, as we grow, we find that the language truly becomes a barrier, we are open to evolving it while staying true to our core intentions. But for now, we are choosing depth with guidance over simplification.
Decolonial. Embodied. Wisdoms. These words are layered, intentional, and sometimes, intimidating. But they are also necessary.
Decolonial is what B.A. beautifully described as:
that which seeks to challenge and reject colonial ontologies and epistemologies; holding at its core the intention to restore and reshape knowledge, culture, interpersonal dynamics, and social structures of colonized people beyond the act of contrasting coloniality.
Embodied is what P.N. carefully called:
a state of wholeness, an integration of bodymind, spirit, and inherited relationships. I also consider it as what Robin Wall Kimmerer describes as naturalization.
Wisdoms is what P.H. poetically characterized as:
culminations of information and interpretation, belief and ignorance, hope and rationality and emotionality, circumstances and contexts and cultures.
It is knowledge shaped by experience and history, layered with complexity, and deeply felt. A term that acknowledges not just what we learn, but how we come to understand.
This is the mission we carry forward. A statement that is both rooted and expansive, precise yet full of possibility. It is a reflection of who we are and what we are building—a library of futures, embodied.
What do you think? How do you balance accessibility and depth in your work?
-- Reaux (she/they), Founding Executive Director
Hello, my loves. It’s been a while! My name is Reaux (she/they), and I am a third-year senior psychology major and sociology minor at Howard University. But more than that, I am someone who has spent the last 8.5 years pouring my heart into something far greater than myself—something that has shaped me, challenged me, and, in many ways, saved me. For nearly a decade, I ran Better Future Program, Inc. (BFP)—a global home for marginalized youth, dedicated to providing free educational resources, mutual aid, and a supportive space for disadvantaged communities. It was my heart, my purpose, my family. And through it, I learned some of the hardest and most painful lessons of my life. Because even in the home we had built for ourselves, we could not escape white supremacy. Even in a space meant for liberation, the burden of care, labor, and survival always fell on the backs of queer and disabled women of color. Even in the work we cherished, we felt compelled to give until there was nothing left of us. For nearly a decade, I carried BFP almost entirely on my own, save for a few volunteers of color who were just as exhausted, just as worn down. We tried everything—transformative justice, education, grace. We gave more chances than we had the capacity to give. And when those who harmed us refused to take accountability—when they twisted our care into something they could take from without giving back—we had to make the hardest decision of all. We had to let BFP go. Not just for survival, but for rebirth. Because I have learned that in order to grow into something greater, we must be willing to release what no longer serves us. As one podcaster I love, Ri Turner, says, expansion requires elimination—a truth that I have come to understand through both heartbreak and transformation. So no, BFP is no longer. That name is in the past. But we, the youth, are still here. And we are building again—this time with boundaries and sustainability at the forefront, and a love ethic that refuses our consumption. This is reclamation. This is the Embodied Futures Collective (EFC). Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing more about how we built something new from the ashes of what was. The lessons we carried, the changes we made, the ways we restructured our foundation so that what happened before never happens again. But before I invite you inside, I need you to understand this: EFC is not just an organization. It is the reason many of us are still here. It is proof that we are more than what tried to implode us. It is a love story—one written in survival, in care, and in an unshakable belief that we deserve more than just getting by, especially in our current political climate. So, please, take my hand, and walk with us. We have so much to share with you! 🩷
-- Reaux <3
Will update as our revamp series continues, for accessibility!
Our Return
Choosing Our New Name
Choosing Our New Color Palette
Writing Our Mission Statement
This series also exists on LinkedIn, if you’d like to support us there as well!
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Last Updated: Monday, March 17, 2025 at 11:05 pm ET
