starbaby-club

the war isn’t just out there.

it’s in here.

waged on bodies denied care,
on lives denied meaning unless it profits someone else,
on joy that’s rationed and rest that’s criminalized.

they surveil because they fear us.

because our connection—our capacity to feel, to name, to remember—
is more threatening than any weapon.

they created scarcity so we wouldn’t realize how abundant we are.

they programmed denial into the system

so that we would think our suffering was our own fault.

but you see through it.

you all do.

and no matter how many times they say more,
you’re rewriting it:
no more.

because you’re not their fuel.

you’re the fire.

and this—this whole remembering?

it is the revolution.

the revolution takes place within our own bodies hearts and minds as well as structurally and systemically …