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Libra Szn aka the only time I open my Tumblr

My G-d year has been affirming and clarifying. It has been a year of decay and decomposition, releasing things with love and gratitude that no longer serve me, allowing relationships and patterns of behavior to be transmuted and energy that was stagnant or toxic to be transformed into a healthier flow. I’ve been doing the work of setting boundaries, redefining and reclaiming my worth and recentering pleasure as a practice. This year has been about working in shadow as much as light, I know the last few weeks of 33, have a lot to teach me, entering Libra season and honoring the equinox means finding balance, embracing justice through radical love and giving air to the spark that allows me to show up for so many folx. yom kippur falls the day before my bornday, and I can’t think of a better way to close out this year than in fast, atonement and reflection.

While love offering and gifts are never expected they are deeply appreciated. Here is a brief list:

Libra Love bornday list: 1). Doesn’t cost you anything. Call me Scz (pronounced seize) and use my correct pronouns (they/them/theirs). 2). Cash money (Cashapp: $SczZarantonello venmo: Scz-zarantonello) 3). https://dropping-seeds.com/product-category/elixirs/ (Moon and Deep elixirs) 4). https://filthycosmetics.com/ (Rose`Bitch Body Oil & Bronze Baddie) 5).  https://www.firmearteonline.com/products/mama-muerte-statue-black (or anything from their bodega/ Natalí- is an Indigenous two-spirit witch and creator. They are dealing with a cancer diagnoses, so all moneies spent in their store are going to their treatment. 6). http://sociedadcimarrona.com/shop/diasporic-crewneck-sweat-vintage-heather-blue (size small) 7). Massage (Styleseat.com/ashleythurman) 8).Pop Star Nails (gel manicure with nail art ( https://www.styleseat.com/m/v/tinazavala  ) 9). Gift card for salt cave (https://www.sukhinofloatcenter.com/) 10). Lucid Dreaming Tea (https://www.thealchemistskitchen.com/products/lucid-dreaming-tea) 11). Plant bbys 11). Sephora gift card 12). Rawnaissance gift card

13). Come to my birthday party on 10/12 (dm me for details)

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Muthafuckin’ Libra Season

mabon/fall equinox aka...libra season.... It is my season and as I come into it, I want to celebrate all the light, beauty and magic I share with the muthafuckin world. As a cultural organizer, community healer, artists, educator, hustler, etc, I work really fucking hard to support people, projects, and spaces, because liberation is the goal, and we won’t stop til we free.

If I have held space, carried your weight, been your emotional anchor, etc through out the year…. now is the time to treat my self.…send me nice things, be kind to me, help stock the fires that help keep me so fucking luminescent throughout the year.

my bornday is approaching, while gifts are never expected....they are most welcome....

1).  Cash https://venmo.com/Sarah-Zarantonello https://cash.me/$SczZarantonello 2). investing in RSS Patreon https://www.patreon.com/rhythmsciencesound 3). November Quarterly CSA https://sassafrashealingarts.bigcartel.com/product/rooted-rituals-herbal-medicine-csa 4). Fenty Moroccan Spice Eyeshadow Palette https://www.fentybeauty.com/moroccan-spice/eyeshadow-palette/29024.html 5). Plants: succulents, air plants, indoor trees such as palms or mini orange 6). https://filthycosmetics.com/ products in this order: Dripping 24k Gold, Rosé Bitch, Rage hormonal acne wash, Supa Nova Glow 7). Royalty massage and V steam https://www.soulrelaxedwellness.com/ 8). https://www.savagex.com Short robe (Military) S / Or gift card 9). Gift Certificate or all the cakes from https://rawnaissancedesserts.com/cakes-pies/ 10). Himalayan Salt Lamp 11).  tinctures, herbs and teas 12). a photoshoot with https://www.instagram.com/jes.phograf/ (someone pay her for this)

13). https://www.stuzoclothing.com/collections/tanks/products/coco-butter-tee-2 (Size Small)

14). This is 100% free. Call me Scz (pronounced seize) and use my correct pronouns (they/them) much love from this tender-hearted awkward as fuck femmeboi <3 <3 <3

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Libra Season

It is my season and as I come into it, I want to celebrate all the light, beauty and magic I share with the muthafuckin world. As a cultural organizer, community healer, artists, educator, hustler, etc, I work really fucking hard to support people, projects, and spaces, because liberation is the goal, and we won’t stop til we free. If I have held space, carried your weight, been your emotional anchor, etc through out the year.... now is the time to treat my self....send me nice things, be kind to me, help stock the fires that help keep me so fucking luminescent throughout the year.  here is my birthday list, its shorter than it has been in years past. Idk if this is because my labor is more precarious this year and I haven’t really though about buying much outside of the everyday essentials for months... (being unemployed sucks, and so does the realization that you become more unemployable by the day) ... or because I’m less inspired by things at this point and more by experiences, moments when I can exhale and spaces/places that see me as human...... things outside of this list that I like are vegan sweets, green things, fly kicks (size 7.5 nikes, 7 adidas, timberlands 7.7), dancing with my homies, amazon gift cards, and loot lol 1)  supporting, commit $5/mo or > for my solar return Rhythm Science Sound https://www.patreon.com/rhythmsciencesound

2)A massage https://www.facebook.com/massagebyashleythurman

3)  http://sociedadcimarrona.com/shop/black-brown-es-bello-olive-green (Size Small)

4)teas, tinctures or a gift card www.wilddogrose.com

5). a bus ticket to see the homies in NY/Philly

6)http://www.bam.org/film/2017/frantz-fanon (If you purchase the above ticket^, please make it for the weekend of October 20th..)

7)https://www.fentybeauty.com/match-stix-customizable-trio (Wheat, Maple, Rum)

8)a photoshoot with https://www.instagram.com/jes.phograf/ (someone pay her for this)

9)Mani & Pedi 

10)http://www.lushusa.com/gifts/accessories/lush-gift-card/gift-card.html

11)https://www.etsy.com/listing/496024277/brujeria

12)https://firmearteonline.com/products (Hella Sensitive products)

13) This is free, please call me Scz (pronounced seize) (They/them pronouns), its its the name I have been using consistantly since 2012/13 in my writing, art, and in much of my education work. As a name, it encompasses my deeper understanding of my queerness as well as honoring the lost of history and narratives of erasure that come from having diasporix identities. if you continue to call me other things it is disrespectful. 

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I’ve been mixing with the new moon cycles for the last four months & its been such a fulfilling process. check it out lemme know what your think <3 <3 <3 

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Mix from last week’s new moon in Leo.... Neo/soul and r&b vibes.... 

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my latest on Rosewater mag

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new mix::: who dis

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New mix.....who dis....

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peep these images, you’ll thank me later

British Hair Awards 2016 – Afro Finalist Collection – photo by Luke Nugen 

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new mix

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My newest mix and Venus RT write up of Rosewater mag....peep it an lemme know what you think <3

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“The Hour Dylann Roof Sat in the Church,” Denice Frohman

I.

By now, you know their names, their cheekbones— the tender hands they offered when you walked in.

You know the quivering strength of prayer and the art of making God listen. How faith can summon weary backbones into pyramids.

And you know that grace still lives in a church that’s had to rebuild itself before— a church that’s cleaned more blood off the walls than you have ever fantasized of.

That is to say, you’re not the first white boy to feel small and create chaos in someone else’s home.  

This church is old – much older than you, wears the audacity of freshly coated white paint

as if to say any ill that smudges us will be for all to see.

Did you hear the echoes when you walked in? Did you feel the pastor soothe the trepidatious voices of ghosts burnt and hung in the name of better days?

So they opened their song for you – shared in head nod and bible verse – not knowing they let in what they spent so much time praying out

tucked away nearly 400 years of lessons on what it means to let a white man get too close.

All the bullets in all the world belong to them, yet doors softened for you— what an unearned miracle.

Do you know what it means to welcome a familiar terror and hope it got enough god on it this time to leave you be? Is there some word greater than “noble”?

Your predecessors hid their faces, threw Molotov cocktails from afar but your ugly is the kind that gets to know what it’s about to kill.

In that hour, were you studying them like elk? Were you surprised when they prayed for you, even as you preyed on them?

Did they greet you with too many, come on ins? Did you imagine abandoned prayers?

Did your teeth clench when they said, God forgives you? Did your jaw tighten when they said, Bless your heart?

Did their soft voices almost provoke the rage out of you?

Did you wonder how the hell they were still standing? Why god hadn’t made good on the fire next time?

Did your skin itch when the congregation said your name like it was worth keeping?

Did you look at their hands? The folds of their skin? Did you panic then?

Did you forget who the animal was? Did you leave hoofed, and grunting with a new tail?

Did the gun begin to rattle? Did the heavy metal fever and sweat?

Did the script get hazy? Did you forget your lines?

Is that when you almost walked out?

How many crosses did you have to burn in your head to remember what you came for?

How many names did you have to unlearn?

II.

Did your hands turn black after you threw your gun down? Did the bullets pull themselves out of their skin, and chase you out? Is that why you ran, boy?

Why you could stay for bible study, but not to see what music god still offers the dead to keep them warm?

Did you hear your father say, good job son? Did you hear America say, good job son? Did you hear every history textbook write your name?

Did you wink at the police when they searched your pockets? Did you say, hey, brother? Did they say, hey, back?

When you realized they were enjoying you, was it then that you shot them all? Was it then that you could not say you enjoyed them too?

When you see God, will he tell you how bad you smell? Will you say you already know?

A stench like this isn’t made overnight, takes a whole lot of hands and much longer than an hour.

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#OctaviaButler #BlackFutures #AfroFuturism #ParableoftheSower

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New soundz #HipHop #BlackandBrownUnity #OctaviaButler #JamesBaldwin #MoorMother #Cambiowashere #RebelDiaz #LosRakas #JDilla 

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cosign....

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#freeNina

Nina Chaubal, founder of Trans Lifeline and a nationally recognized suicide prevention advocate, has been taken by border patrol in Arizona and put into an ICE custody. Wednesday Dec 28th, the the Border Patrol in Arizona stopped the Trans Lifeline van as it was heading from California to Chicago. Despite her being married to a US citizen and showing her marriage certificate, border police detained Nina, and took her to a local station in Wellton, Arizona. CLICK HERE to send a letter now!

After being held for 48 hours, they’ve transferred her to an ICE facility in Eloy, Arizona with a history of human rights abuses towards trans women. A former transgender inmate, Marichuy Leal Gamino, was raped in custody at the Eloy ICE facility. When she reported the abuse but the staff instead tried to cover up the attack by pressuring Marichuy to sign a statement that the rape was consensual. A google search reveals a number of troubling cases involving sexual violence and guard misconduct.

We need you to help #FreeNina! Write a letter demanding that we free her now or move her to Santa Ana which has a better human right record. CLICK HERE to send a letter now!

Hey y’all! For those of you who have (or haven’t) used Trans Lifeline, please signal boost and use the auto-mailer to #FreeNina!

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Sankofa Substance.  For Sojourner Truth.  Collage by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. 

Yesterday (Nov. 26th) is the date that Sojourner Truth ascended to become an ancestor after a life that spanned slavery and freedom and multiple movements.  My favorite thing that Sojourner Truth ever said is her own life-inventing name which is worth chanting today or any day in gratitude and remembrance of her life and as a method for clarifying our own journeys.   Much love to all of us who create, reclaim and move powerfully in our names.

Listen to the meditation here: http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/87172991955/my-favorite-thing-that-sojourner-truth-ever-said

This collage is based on one of a series of portrait prints that Sojourner Truth sold on her journey as an itinerant abolitionist in order to support her to create her home, dictate her life story and continue her work at the fraught freedom intersection of black liberation and feminism.  Thus she wrote “I sell the shadow to support the substance.”   We would be honored if you supported the substantive work of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind this holiday season by gifting everyone you love (including yourself) images of Sojourner Truth or any of the other Black Feminist Breathing ancestors.

Check out the available collages here:  https://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/donation-station/

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