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Ana Del Castillo

Artist of Transformation Truth + Peace + Power Rightness in Motion Married to the Love of My Life Learning to Make More Room for Grace

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Some Things Were Never Supposed to Be for Sale

I didn't decide to become a leftist. I got pushed.

The Hollow Tree

The most courageous thing I do is not heal.

The American Guillotines

Long live the revolution.

I Am Not a Rhinoceros

Written from the floor on the day the president chose war.

Hope Is Not A Bird

On patriarchy, cynicism, and the lie of waiting to be saved

They Sewed the Robes

White women didn’t just witness white supremacy. They built it and are still building it.

Inventory

Faeloria

"Just Friends"

A short story

She Wakes

Good There is a part of me that has always known

Done Starving

My mother starved herself.

A Post-Mortem on Eponine from Les Miserables

Maybe she wanted one true thing rather than a lifetime of standing in the dark, harmonizing in someone else’s love story.

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The Happy Dagger

What if Juliet hadn't reached for the dagger? What if she reached for the door instead?

Papi, Is That You?

Two days after my father was murdered, the ocean spoke to me

I Didn't Tell Him I loved Him

A memoir piece from the night my father and brother were killed

What She Sounds Like When She Stops Being Easy

Day 2 of 30 days of living more audaciously and being seen in my creativity.

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Spirituality: The Pipeline to Fascism

The heartbreak of watching people I once loved become unrecognizable.

Valentine’s Day is Bullshit

Love’s where it’s at.

This Has Captured My Creative Attention

What are your thoughts about this excerpt?

I Gave My Power Away. I’m Taking It Back.

My Long Road From Magical Thinking to Creative Sovereignty.

How to Love Yourself in Practice

Meeting yourself without fixing, avoiding, or leaving when it gets hard