Vera Faye (verafaye)

this is not a guide. this is a record of navigation — the way light feels when it breaks its own straightness and remembers it can bend. the body of work ahead will not teach; it will walk. it will move like water learning its own reflection. i am unbecoming the colonized form of progress, and returning to the spiral — to the pulse of creative evolution that needs no permission to be divine.

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industrial accounting can calculate the value produced during a shift. it is extraordinarily bad at calculating the value of the possibility-space the shift consumed. ❤️‍🔥🫶🏻🐉

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institutions demand extraordinary visibility into us without granting us equivalent visibility into what they do with what they see. that’s an asymmetry of legibility. that isn’t merely a privacy problem. trust determines whether the archive gets to exist in the first place. ❤️‍🔥🫶🏻🐉

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dressed for comfort for this mornings flight ocean here I come 🤤 ✈️ ☀️🌊

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this is not a guide. this is a record of navigation — the way light feels when it breaks its own straightness and remembers it can bend. the body of work ahead will not teach; it will walk. it will move like water learning its own reflection. i am unbecoming the colonized form of progress, and returning to the spiral — to the pulse of creative evolution that needs no permission to be divine.

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CAPITALISTIC SPACES PRODUCE A SOMATIC COST this is the part no one says out loud: these environments are engineered to shape behavior. they use: • sensory saturation • overstimulation • subtle disorientation • cognitive fatigue • narrowed attention • emotional derailment the goal: weaken boundaries → increase compliance → promote consumption. when you name the somatic mechanisms, you free people from thinking their suffering is personal failure. it’s not. it’s engineered. and naming it is part of the deprogramming of the collective. capitalistic environments work because they override intuition. healing begins when you start listening to it again. and this— this moment of naming— is how we return to ourselves. somatic sovereignty is not rebellion. it’s remembering. ❤️‍🔥🫶🏻🐉

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this brings me more joy than I can express found this while cleaning my hard drive and now I keep repeating it 😂✌🏻✨

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