When hopelessness creeps in, I don't chase it off with cheer anymore.

I hand it a cup of tea, let it ramble, then whisper,
“I’m building something anyway.”

Resistance through creation.

#TTRPG #NeurodiverseCreators #CreativeRituals #StorytellingAsResistance

#TimeTravelGame #RewritingHistory #RadicalImagination #StorytellingAsResistance

#TheInstinctiveMidnightTheory #VictoriousDeCosta #StormOverBrooklyn #DiggingForWeldonIrvine #KingEsseen #FreshSince79 #CulturalAlchemy #DocumentaryWithPurpose #BlackFilmMatters #SeenAndSampled #StorytellingAsResistance #LegacyInMotion #VoicesThatBuild #NewPodcastAlert #YouTubePremiere

Witches, Women, and Magdalene Houses: Reclaiming Power Through Fiction — Matilda Lockwood Writes Content warning: institutional abuse, forced adoption, religious coercion.

🌿 1758: healer called “witch”
🧺 1898: girl erased in a Magdalene laundry
🖋 2025: fresh ink narrows women’s rights

The pattern’s older than we think. I wrote more about it here:
www.matildalockwoodwrites.com/blog/witches...

#HistFic #WomenInHistory #MagdaleneLaundries #StorytellingAsResistance

Wednesday Wisdom 📚
This line from How the Word Is Passed reshaped how I tell stories—not just to evoke empathy, but to expose power. Smith shows how memory and place can shift narratives and challenge systems.
If you haven’t read it yet, this is your sign.
#WednesdayWisdom #StorytellingAsResistance

ICE is deporting people with legal status—and we don’t even know how many. Why? Because there’s no system to track wrongful deportations.
That’s not a glitch. That’s the design.

#AbolitionNow #ICEOut #ImmigrantJustice #DeportationCrisis #StorytellingAsResistance

Khashoggi did just that—until the Saudi government silenced him.

What if James Baldwin or Ida B. Wells had been killed for writing?
That’s the kind of loss we’re talking about.

#MENAHeritageMonth #JamalKhashoggi #TruthTeller #StorytellingAsResistance #ParentingForJustice #RaiseBraveKids

ICE is deporting people with legal status—and we don’t even know how many. Why? Because there’s no system to track wrongful deportations.
That’s not a glitch. That’s the design.

#AbolitionNow #ICEOut #ImmigrantJustice #DeportationCrisis #StorytellingAsResistance

Light through bars.
Hope where the system says there should be none.
This is what the inside teaches us:
You can lock bodies, but not vision. Not spirit. Not truth.

#HopeIsARadicalAct #PrisonAbolition #VisualResistance #AbolitionNow #StorytellingAsResistance #FromTheInsideOut

GRASSROOTS RISING GRASSROOTS RISING, directed by Robert C. Winn, explores the re-emergence of Asian Pacific American labor activism in Los Angeles among people from all walks of life.

Storytelling, organizing, and courage feed each other.

That’s the thread running through my latest post on my doc Grassroots Rising—a reflection on the risks, choices, and meaning of storytelling in precarious times.

#GrassrootsRising #StorytellingAsResistance #AAPIWorkers #CommunityMedia

Words are weapons. I don’t just write stories; I architect revolutions through narrative. Literature isn’t an escape; it’s a mirror, a scalpel, a match to burn the old world down. #LinguisticMastery #StorytellingAsResistance