The Shield and the Stool A Story About Patriarchy

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Erica Wood (@woody777)

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What It Means to Will Another’s Existence A reflection on love, accountability, community, and the liberation practice of letting relationships unfold.

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Hip Hop Is Political (A Bonus Series) Dismantling Supremacy Culture Through Sound

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I AM RENEE GOOD... Why #SayHerName is the antithesis to community and solidarity

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Imani... Faith as What We Keep Choosing a Practice of Staying

What if faith isn’t about believing harder, but about choosing who and what you refuse to abandon?

Day 7: Imani
Now live.

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Day Two of Kwanzaa: Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) History, context, and the embodied work of naming ourselves

Self-determination isn’t just political… it’s physiological. Real community allows you to breathe, speak, and arrive without armor.

#SomaticTruth #SelfDetermination #CommunityHealing #KwanzaaPrinciples #decolonizedcommunity #Kwanzaa #desireebstephens

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7 Ways to Give: Liberation, Care, and Community Without Self-Abandonment Because You Matter Too

Giving wasn’t meant to deplete you. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...

Rednecks Rising Media (@rednecksrising)

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DECEMBER EDITORIAL CALENDAR Season of Self: Rewriting the Story of You

Dormant is not dead... it’s preparation. December is the Season of Self, the month where you stop performing and finally meet the truth inside you. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...

The Holidays Are Mirrors: What This Season Shows Us Who's at your table?

The holidays are mirrors.
And your body knows the truth before you do. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...

The 15 Pillars of Supremacy Culture as Nervous System Patterning Liberation Lessons: Actionable Advice for Radical Change A Weekly Paid Subscriber Bonus

Before supremacy culture became a system, it was a survival strategy you never consented to. Today, we name each pillar as a somatic survival pattern. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...

Call It What It Is: Epstein, Ephebophilia, and the National Failure to Name Harm People will do everything BUT tell the truth.

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Come Inside. You’re Safe to Sit Down Here. Season of Descent: We slow down to listen

There is a version of you that has been on guard your entire life — waiting for the tone to change, for the withdrawal, for the moment the ground shifts under your feet. desireebstephens.substack.com/p/come-insid...

So proud of my kiddo

So You Want to Boycott Amazon — But What Does That Actually Mean? It’s not about shipping — it’s about systems.

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The personal politics of Desireé B Stephens, educator and counsellor White supremacy harms white-bodied people because there is no privilege in having no community

Did you know that the patriarchy harms men first and white supremacy hurts white people first?? 🤯

Read or watch my conversation with @desireebstephens.substack.com to find out how! amyhoggart.substack.com/p/the-person...

When Allyship Feels Like Rejection: The Lesson Before You March Liberation Lessons: Actionable Advice for Radical Change A Weekly Paid Subscriber Bonus

Before you march… read this. #nokings
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Amy Hoggart (@amyhoggart) I had such a wonderful conversation yesterday with @Desireé B Stephens whose substack is one of my must-reads. I’ll write up and post everything next week, but here’s a highlight to tide you over!

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From Polite to Profound: How to Talk Like We Actually Want Liberation Beyond “How Are You?”

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Descent as Devotion: Reclaiming Endings as Sacred Liberation Lessons: Actionable Advice for Radical Change A Weekly Paid Subscriber Bonus

We’ve been taught to fear the fall.
To mistake slowing down for failure.
But liberation lives in the descent — in the moment we stop performing control and start practicing trust.

✨ New Lesson: Learning to Trust the Fall
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“I Am Charlie Kirk” The Ancestral Weight Behind the Rallying Cry

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Desireé B Stephens (@desireebstephens) Let’s Have the Conversation

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Go Back and Get It Harvest, Eclipse, and the 9/9/9 Portal

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“Separate... But Polite” The House With Two Doors A Gilded History of White Liberalism

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lol listen I can’t be bother with all those clothes! Lol

From Refusal to Reclamation: Building While the Old Falls Let's Discuss Parallel Systems

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Desireé B Stephens | Substack "Guiding transformation to liberation through education, decolonization, and community building. A passionate advocate for healing and unity."

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Joy as Rebellion: Cultivating Radical Celebration How joy becomes a political, spiritual, and communal act of resistance

@desireebstephens.substack.com writes about Joy. As an Irish-German American, that sh!t doesn't come natural to me. Moroseness is my default. But Joy . . . that's the sweet spot – and not often in evidence on social media, so consider this a PSA.

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Desireé B Stephens (@desireebstephens) Yes, I’m still on holiday however this question was posed in the Make Shi(f)t Happen FB group and I thought it would be helpful “I need help with the idea of community. I think of community as somet...

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