spring continues! 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
the good news is there are dope things happening!
two of my queer beloveds have things in NYC this week. check ‘em out and feel free to share the word.
also, i was today years old when my friend jon told me about the transformative justice help desk.
Transformative Justice Help Desk
Interrupting Criminalization offers a Transformative Justice Help Desk consultation service for our partners working on projects and community-wide interventions to respond to, transform and interrupt harm and violence without the state.
The TJ Help Desk is available by appointment to offer thought partnership and one-on-one consultation to support groups and individuals who are working on projects and community-wide interventions to end violence without using the police and other carceral systems.
have i booked a call? you bet i have. am i going to book all 5 of the calls that i can? 100%.
also also, i learned through my coaching for healing, justice, and liberation alumni crew about the liberation line:
The Liberation Line provides free mental health support calls to organizers and activists, offering support, listening, resources, processing, debriefing or strategizing. These are confidential, non-crisis, non-therapy phone calls facilitated by a trusted volunteer with experience in offering mental health support and who is committed to Palestinian and collective liberation. The Liberation Line is open to any organizer or activist involved in social or political change, who may be impacted by police or state brutality, counter protestor violence, racism, oppression, or is experiencing conflict, stress, burnout or trauma related to their community organizing or activism.
finally, i just wanna say that the first of our two uncle gatherings went great last night and i’m very excited for the second one (interested? live in or willing to travel to the boston area? details and RSVP link over here!). hopefully i’ll do some writing about the session soon.
ok! gonna keep it pushing so as to not overthink this.
on to the things!
(!!) pick of the pack
some things i’ve written since the last newsletter:
Apr 6, 2026 | why spring is my least favorite season: part 2
Apr 5, 2026 | book review: waking the tiger by peter levine
Apr 3, 2026 | why spring is my least favorite season
there is nothing new under the sun. also, full transparency, many of these quotes come from james clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter (which i love).
Overthinking is almost always underfeeling. — Alex Olshonsky
The mindset:
Confident enough to start. Humble enough to keep learning.
The trap:
Too humble to start. Or too confident to keep learning. — James Clear
Unexpected forms of generosity:
- Being early can be a form of generosity. You wait, so they don’t have to.
- Leaving something unsaid can be a form of generosity. You don’t always need the last word.
- Delivering your work on time can be a form of generosity. You make life easier for everyone downstream.
- Not taking things personally can be a form of generosity. You give people the space to say things imperfectly. — James Clear
It’s rare to find your purpose for life, so instead look for your purpose for this season.
What lights you up right now? What’s a good thing to dedicate this season of your life to? Perhaps more importantly, what purpose served you well in your previous season, but you have outgrown?
Life is always changing. It’s okay to pick a new North Star. — James Clear
The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
— Zadie Smith
Rather than feel impotent and useless, you must come to terms with the fact that as a human being you are infinitely powerful, and take responsibility for this tremendous power. Even our smallest actions have potential for great change, positively or negatively, and the way in which we all conduct ourselves within the world means something. You are anything but impotent, you are, in fact, exquisitely and frighteningly dynamic, as are we all, and with all respect you have an obligation to stand up and take responsibility for that potential. It is your most ordinary and urgent duty. — Nick Cave
“...our tomorrow is the child of our today. Through thought and deed, we exert a great deal of influence over this child, even though we can’t control it absolutely. Best to think about it, though. Best to try to shape it into something good. Best to do that for any child.” — Octavia Butler
some things i’ve read since the last newsletter:
here’s the jobs list for this month. enjoy! ty to nadav and zac for this increasingly juicy offering!
also one other job that i want to highlight because the outgoing person is awesome and the work is critical and deserves to be lead into its next stage! also the team is amazing (speaking as a former board member).
Damnation: A man falls in love with a nightclub singer and falls into the criminal underworld. One of the great ending sequences of all-time. 116 min.
Showtimes: 4/12 3pm and 4/24 7pm
Werckmeister Harmonies: A giant whale and a mysterious figure known as The Prince come to a small Hungarian town. Maybe the greatest opening shot of all time and an incredible last shot. 145 min.
Showtimes: 4/11 7:30pm and 4/19 3pm
The Turin Horse: A de-creation movie. Slowly we come to the end of the world. 150 min.
Showtime: 4/17 7pm
Satantango: The rumored return of two men to a small Hungarian collective farm spreads worry and unrest. Voted the 36th best film of all time in the, every ten years, Sight and Sound poll in 2012. Slipped to 78th in the 2022 poll. 450 min.
Showtime: 4/25 2pm
MIT List Gallery | 40th Celebration – Anniversary Kick-off and Opening Reception of Performing Conditions | 10 april, 7-9p ET (a friend works with xaviera simmons, one of the dope artists in this show)
bad environmentalist: my declassified deep winter survival guide
the bird: Aubergine Appendage
building belonging: Neurodivergence and belonging: understanding myself and the world
future ancestors: Let’s Not Surrender Democracy (!)
rectangle | square: 11 | Heirlooms, Happenstance, Hands!
Prisons, Prose & Protest: The Warehouse: A Public Library Art Takeover in NYC (April 4-June 27)
The Felt Sense: What Do We Do While Waiting For Change To Arrive?
about the layers and layers of work to do in the world of uncling…
this is me. doing the absolute most this week.
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