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The world is speaking. How can we always be listening?
Matriarch Farmsteads & Mobile Living Spaces in Denver, Colorado creates access to safe community resourcing: Water, Food, Shelter, Transportation, Community.
Matriarch Farmsteads is a Black woman-owned community enterprise in the business of helping humanity to live, to survive, & to thrive in respect & care for our Mother Earth.
Matriarch is founded by Mara Bird, creator of @OnyxBirdMedia, @MakePeaceLifeschool, & @KindnessCaravan, & contributor to projects across this @IntuitivePublicRadio.
Support & co-create joyful solutions with us by tuning to our public chat: t.me/+jWZ5QxQ3aCpmNzIx
Videography by Mara Bird.
Share funds: cash.app/$BirdMara
We are celebrating living, loving, & learning -- growing strong communities. Explore more art, photography, & opportunities to participate: t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/6
t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/7
Matriarch Farmsteads & Mobile Living Spaces in Denver, Colorado creates access to safe community resourcing: Water, Food, Shelter, Transportation, Community.
Matriarch Farmsteads is a Black woman-owned community enterprise in the business of helping humanity to live, to survive, & to thrive in respect & care for our Mother Earth.
Matriarch is founded by Mara Bird, creator of @OnyxBirdMedia, @MakePeaceLifeschool, & @KindnessCaravan, & contributor to projects across this @IntuitivePublicRadio.
Support & co-create joyful solutions with us by tuning to our public chat: t.me/+jWZ5QxQ3aCpmNzIx
Videography by Mara Bird.
Share funds: cash.app/$BirdMara
We are celebrating living, loving, & learning -- growing strong communities. Explore more art, photography, & opportunities to participate: t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/6
t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/7
My 50th Birthday Wish: I have gone 50 times around the Sun! that's incredible to me! So much of the time, didn't know if I was going to make it. So many times, honestly, I didn't want to make it. But I survived.
Read more: t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/9
Photography by Onyx Bird Media
t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/8
Read more: t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/9
Photography by Onyx Bird Media
t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/8
My 50th Birthday Wish
I have gone 50 times around the Sun! That's incredible to me! So much of the time, didn't know if I was going to make it. So many times, honestly, I didn't want to make it.
But I survived.
Thank you to good people, friends, family, and therapy.
Through all these fifty years I have struggled mightily with feeling loved and cared about. As a non-man person who is a Black descendant of enslaved people, also queer and neurodivergent, I identify with many groups of people who have experienced hate, oppression, subjugation, mistreatment, disgust, and disregard. It took me a while (my whole life this far plus almost 11 months of weekly therapy) to come to terms with the fact that I am smack in the intersection of the human chaos of inhumanity. And that because I can relate, I can say something. I can do something.
And 50 feels like the right time to do it.
I lost my house during the pandemic. I'm not gonna say it was shady (Walsenburgers, IYKYK), but as a veteran, (shafted by a change in the GI Bill) traumatized by the things that happened in my life in the past, from before me and in my DNA to now, I need this world to NOT BE the kind of place to let any person be without a home. But also, I paid for mine in full.
Anyway, it's gone. And I can relate to those who have lost heir homes. I still tear up (I miss the books I couldn't keep 🥹). Loss is a huge part of being alive.
Because I can relate to being so sad and sick and depressed oh so lonely much of the time and rendered mute and paralyzed with fear about saying or doing anything that would shake my peace. Because "what's the use?🙄 The world is just shit anyway," they say in a bored tone. It makes me sicker when people want to just accept "that's just the way things are.🙄" And they scoff when I mention that I believe Peace is possible.
Sick but alive in spite of it all, I am hopeful for the future. And it's time to get to work!
For the past 8 years or so, I have been making a lot of notes on how things could be better for ALL people when people who are suffering and in need — children and young people and disabled people — have their needs met and are WELL.
I left teaching because of some of the things I've seen, how children are treated and mistreated. How can we still not know that children are the future?! (Yes, sing the song in your head!)!
I have had a vision of something more focused on total wellness and humanity with purpose and joy.
I have started a channel on Telegram. It will contain my dreams, my vision, my notes, my art, and it is totally interactive.
***MY WISH is that you will check it out, talk with me there about it, and share widely with people you think may be interested in any of the projects and art.
You can subscribe to it here: t.me/OnyxBirdMedia
And you can join our chat here: t.me/+DsG1vfnSasJiZjEx
My 50s will be about turning dreams into reality. I would love for you all to be a part of these happenings 😃
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
If you're interested in my birthday list of tangible items, even just to see what I'm into, here it is: amazon.com/hz/wishlist/dl/invite/akb049x?ref_=wl_share
Artwork: t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/8
t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/9
I have gone 50 times around the Sun! That's incredible to me! So much of the time, didn't know if I was going to make it. So many times, honestly, I didn't want to make it.
But I survived.
Thank you to good people, friends, family, and therapy.
Through all these fifty years I have struggled mightily with feeling loved and cared about. As a non-man person who is a Black descendant of enslaved people, also queer and neurodivergent, I identify with many groups of people who have experienced hate, oppression, subjugation, mistreatment, disgust, and disregard. It took me a while (my whole life this far plus almost 11 months of weekly therapy) to come to terms with the fact that I am smack in the intersection of the human chaos of inhumanity. And that because I can relate, I can say something. I can do something.
And 50 feels like the right time to do it.
I lost my house during the pandemic. I'm not gonna say it was shady (Walsenburgers, IYKYK), but as a veteran, (shafted by a change in the GI Bill) traumatized by the things that happened in my life in the past, from before me and in my DNA to now, I need this world to NOT BE the kind of place to let any person be without a home. But also, I paid for mine in full.
Anyway, it's gone. And I can relate to those who have lost heir homes. I still tear up (I miss the books I couldn't keep 🥹). Loss is a huge part of being alive.
Because I can relate to being so sad and sick and depressed oh so lonely much of the time and rendered mute and paralyzed with fear about saying or doing anything that would shake my peace. Because "what's the use?🙄 The world is just shit anyway," they say in a bored tone. It makes me sicker when people want to just accept "that's just the way things are.🙄" And they scoff when I mention that I believe Peace is possible.
Sick but alive in spite of it all, I am hopeful for the future. And it's time to get to work!
For the past 8 years or so, I have been making a lot of notes on how things could be better for ALL people when people who are suffering and in need — children and young people and disabled people — have their needs met and are WELL.
I left teaching because of some of the things I've seen, how children are treated and mistreated. How can we still not know that children are the future?! (Yes, sing the song in your head!)!
I have had a vision of something more focused on total wellness and humanity with purpose and joy.
I have started a channel on Telegram. It will contain my dreams, my vision, my notes, my art, and it is totally interactive.
***MY WISH is that you will check it out, talk with me there about it, and share widely with people you think may be interested in any of the projects and art.
You can subscribe to it here: t.me/OnyxBirdMedia
And you can join our chat here: t.me/+DsG1vfnSasJiZjEx
My 50s will be about turning dreams into reality. I would love for you all to be a part of these happenings 😃
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
If you're interested in my birthday list of tangible items, even just to see what I'm into, here it is: amazon.com/hz/wishlist/dl/invite/akb049x?ref_=wl_share
Artwork: t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/8
t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/9
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My 50th Birthday Wish: I have gone 50 times around the Sun! that's incredible to me! So much of the time, didn't know if I was going to make it. So many times, honestly, I didn't want to make it. But I survived.
Read more: t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/9
Photography…
Read more: t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/9
Photography…
My 50th Birthday Wish:
"I have had a vision of something more focused on total wellness and humanity with purpose and joy.
I have started a channel on Telegram. It will contain my dreams, my vision, my notes, my art, and it is totally interactive.
MY WISH is that you will check it out, talk with me there about it, and share widely with people you think may be interested in any of the projects and art."
Read more: t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/9
Mara Onyx Bird • t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/10
"I have had a vision of something more focused on total wellness and humanity with purpose and joy.
I have started a channel on Telegram. It will contain my dreams, my vision, my notes, my art, and it is totally interactive.
MY WISH is that you will check it out, talk with me there about it, and share widely with people you think may be interested in any of the projects and art."
Read more: t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/9
Mara Onyx Bird • t.me/OnyxBirdMedia/10
Eliza Bleu writes,
If you need to speak to someone please reach out. You are not alone. 24/7 365
Human Trafficking Hotline
1 (888) 373-7888
twitter.com/elizableu/status/1608721396431204354
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2377
If you need to speak to someone please reach out. You are not alone. 24/7 365
Human Trafficking Hotline
1 (888) 373-7888
twitter.com/elizableu/status/1608721396431204354
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2377
Max Mo writes,
@ElizaBleu, what should vulnerable disabled ppl do when they call the human trafficking hotline & are turned away or endangered by hotline's assumptions?
Asking this many years now, fending for ourselves at #sextrafficking intersections.
Grateful for dialogue on the subject.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608789793760219136
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2378
@ElizaBleu, what should vulnerable disabled ppl do when they call the human trafficking hotline & are turned away or endangered by hotline's assumptions?
Asking this many years now, fending for ourselves at #sextrafficking intersections.
Grateful for dialogue on the subject.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608789793760219136
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2378
Max Mo writes,
Very grateful if we can expand this conversation to include those who have been turned away or endangered by the hotline. Past a threshold of disability, we're watching the bodies pile up.
Thank you for your work. Thank you for reading & responding to this msg if you can.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608790563863793664
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2379
Very grateful if we can expand this conversation to include those who have been turned away or endangered by the hotline. Past a threshold of disability, we're watching the bodies pile up.
Thank you for your work. Thank you for reading & responding to this msg if you can.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608790563863793664
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2379
Max Mo writes,
Important request to prevent #sextrafficking of disabled children, elders, and families: twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608789793760219136 🙏🏼🕊️✨
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608790864205320194
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2380
Important request to prevent #sextrafficking of disabled children, elders, and families: twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608789793760219136 🙏🏼🕊️✨
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608790864205320194
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2380
Follow more public media by-&-for severely disabled sex trafficking survivors: t.me/IntuitivePublicRadio/11220 🌻🌿
Tarin Faolan writes,
It's hit or miss. You're calling people. Individuals, some make mistakes. I got sent to a home that was completely re-traumatizing. But they also provided me with numbers for support I desperately needed.
as a free resource for people in a dire situation, over all, it's great.
twitter.com/Tarin9000/status/1608819344188018688
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2382
It's hit or miss. You're calling people. Individuals, some make mistakes. I got sent to a home that was completely re-traumatizing. But they also provided me with numbers for support I desperately needed.
as a free resource for people in a dire situation, over all, it's great.
twitter.com/Tarin9000/status/1608819344188018688
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2382
Max Mo writes,
Let's talk about how we can organize in our communities so that no #sextrafficking survivors ever are met with silence when they say what is happening in their neighborhoods.
Let's make sure that we're tending to the ppl bearing the greatest burden of harm in our spaces.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608820237599928323
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2383
Let's talk about how we can organize in our communities so that no #sextrafficking survivors ever are met with silence when they say what is happening in their neighborhoods.
Let's make sure that we're tending to the ppl bearing the greatest burden of harm in our spaces.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608820237599928323
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2383
Max Mo writes,
When we do this, all community members benefit from the stability and safety that results.
When perpetrators do violence to our communities, the people who know the most about it are the people who are most brutalized and silenced from speaking on it.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608820429027938304
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2384
When we do this, all community members benefit from the stability and safety that results.
When perpetrators do violence to our communities, the people who know the most about it are the people who are most brutalized and silenced from speaking on it.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608820429027938304
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2384
Max Mo writes,
To be honest, it has been conspicuous how trafficking organizations can disable members of our communities and then those community members are forgotten by the communities.
If we forget the people experiencing violence that erases them, have we put solutions in place yet?
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608820976103591936
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2385
To be honest, it has been conspicuous how trafficking organizations can disable members of our communities and then those community members are forgotten by the communities.
If we forget the people experiencing violence that erases them, have we put solutions in place yet?
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608820976103591936
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2385
Max Mo writes,
Intuitive Public research has shown repeatedly how human trafficking organizations use disablement and invisibilization of #disability to continue perpetrating violence while most members of the community think that someone is addressing it.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608822956691709952
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2386
Intuitive Public research has shown repeatedly how human trafficking organizations use disablement and invisibilization of #disability to continue perpetrating violence while most members of the community think that someone is addressing it.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608822956691709952
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2386
Max Mo writes,
This gap in awareness results in severely disabled children, elders, mothers, & families not being taken seriously when they say they are being targeted by #sextraffickers. Often, violence against them is escalated.
Let's expand our dialogue about this radically, please.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608823135121608706
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2387
This gap in awareness results in severely disabled children, elders, mothers, & families not being taken seriously when they say they are being targeted by #sextraffickers. Often, violence against them is escalated.
Let's expand our dialogue about this radically, please.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608823135121608706
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2387
Max Mo writes,
We have spent many years documenting these invisible #sextrafficking intersections and the prolific retaliation from unaddressed trafficking-aligned systems that silence these disabled people, mischaracterize them, and continue to funnel them into unconscionable brutality.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608824587323846657
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2388
We have spent many years documenting these invisible #sextrafficking intersections and the prolific retaliation from unaddressed trafficking-aligned systems that silence these disabled people, mischaracterize them, and continue to funnel them into unconscionable brutality.
twitter.com/MoFromTheGut/status/1608824587323846657
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2388
Max Mo writes,
We make public media by-&-for severely disabled sex trafficking survivors.
We'd like to see this conversation rapidly amplified.
twitter.com/IntuitivePublic
t.me/IntuitivePublicRadio/11228
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2389 🌺🥰🕊️
We make public media by-&-for severely disabled sex trafficking survivors.
We'd like to see this conversation rapidly amplified.
twitter.com/IntuitivePublic
t.me/IntuitivePublicRadio/11228
t.me/IntuitiveTraffic/2389 🌺🥰🕊️
APOCALYPSE!! • What To Do??
Tuesday, 3 January 2023 • 1PM (1300h) Eastern | Jitsi live public session with Intuitive Community Access
Challenges rearing their fierce, firey faces? With friends, you can engage collaborative solutions.
To succeed in otherwise impossible-seeming circumstances, we anchor sacred principles of change in the flow of activated community energy.
1. Courage. 2. Tolerance. 3. Take sober stock of the situation. 4. Best practices. 5. Care magic. 6. Detoxification. 7. Peoples' economics. 8. Life sanctuary practices. 9. Learn together. 10. Celebrate success. (!!!)
Join this public, recorded audio/video session in Jitsi with your web browser to anchor and usher forth powerful change with us.
Contact t.me/maxmorris for special access and assistance.
Join here: meet.jit.si/IntuitiveAccess
t.me/IntuitiveAccess/43
Tuesday, 3 January 2023 • 1PM (1300h) Eastern | Jitsi live public session with Intuitive Community Access
Challenges rearing their fierce, firey faces? With friends, you can engage collaborative solutions.
To succeed in otherwise impossible-seeming circumstances, we anchor sacred principles of change in the flow of activated community energy.
1. Courage. 2. Tolerance. 3. Take sober stock of the situation. 4. Best practices. 5. Care magic. 6. Detoxification. 7. Peoples' economics. 8. Life sanctuary practices. 9. Learn together. 10. Celebrate success. (!!!)
Join this public, recorded audio/video session in Jitsi with your web browser to anchor and usher forth powerful change with us.
Contact t.me/maxmorris for special access and assistance.
Join here: meet.jit.si/IntuitiveAccess
t.me/IntuitiveAccess/43