Last night we swam deeper into the How She Knew: Fugitive Epistemologies Online Intensive. We dedicated lines of our first group poem to our loved ones. We shared about our journeys of creating criteria for our own boundaries, allowing our fears to ask for love, allowing our dreams to teach us generations. We experimented with hot water, quilt pieces and greens, creating catalogs of cleansing for what we are ready to release, inventories of freedom patterns worn by the people we love and storehouses of practices that nourish and feed our spirits. So much clarity and abundance. For me, the major lesson was about a shift in tone. What happens when I free myself from what “i know i need to do” and open myself up to what “i know is there for me, when i need it”? Everything. That’s what happens!
This group poem is about our dedication and commitment to the continued journey of knowing what capitalism don’t want us to know and slavery don’t want us to remember. Use it as an affirmation and invitation that your deepest knowing may rise and know you are calling for it.
And again, if you want your own opportunity to dig deep, join us next week for Dig: The Womanist Archeologies Intensive.
Love,
Sista Docta Lex
above everything, despite everything: a love poem for our fugitive knowing
by the participants in the How She Knew: Fugitive Epistemologies Intensive
“i couldn’t see anything but I understood there was something above everything. above everything despite everything I would find fresh air and breathe again. Above everything despite everything I would free you. my best idea yet.”
-from Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
above everything
despite everything
you are still here
above everything
despite everything
you are here for me
above everything
despite everything
you will not be thrown away
above everything
despite everything
you already know
above everything
despite everything
i still know you
above everything
despite everything
i can still hear you
above everything
despite everything
i will find you
above everything
despite everything
i am here for you
above everything
despite everything
the water wont stop me
above everything
despite everything
i am listening
above everything
despite everything
i hear your voice
above everything
despite everything
i trust myself
above everything
despite everything
i would choose you
above everything
despite everything
i would choose me
above everything
despite everything
the sky is witnessing
above everything
despite everything
love renews itself
above everything
despite everything
freedom is free
above everything
despite everything
joy remains
above everything
despite everything
God might not want to be called that
above everything
despite everything
color can create but can it hold all of you?
above everything
despite everything
we are still here
above everything
despite everything
we are gathered
above everything
despite everything
we are breathing
above everything
despite everything
we are singing
above everything
despite everything
make love
above everything
despite everything
follow your desires
above everything
despite everything
bring your magic
above everything
despite everything
ask them why
above everything
despite everything
be reliable
above everything
despite everything
let go
above everything
despite everything
make the time
above everything
despite everything
love love love
above everything
despite everything
tell it. TELL it!!