Relational Uprising

09/13/2026

“One dangerous part of the tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project is that the tools they are building are designed to remake us in their own broken image. Popular platforms and apps train us to share Silicon Valley’s dream of discarnate freedom, perpetually nudging us to forsake real places and in-person connection in favor of simulations – and to view Earth, our bodies and our relationships as prisons to hack and flee… They don’t seem to know how to love this place, to savor the pleasure of other people’s company, or to marvel at the mysteries presented by other species.”

An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them

09/09/2026

“For more than a century, scientists were sure that cognition and intelligence required neurons, the cells that make up brains and nervous systems. These neurons form and reform connections between themselves to create pathways for thought and memory. This understanding of intelligence was an implicit argument that animals occupy a special place within the living kingdom – separate to plants and microbes – and that humans are most special of all.”

The long read: Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place within it

09/05/2026

We are basking in the resonant field we built this past weekend at our Relational Culture Residential with a beautiful group of humans. Grateful for everyone who joined us, your openness, your energy, and your commitment to doing this work well. What you carry forward from here will ripple further than you know. Connection matters, and real change doesn’t happen in a rush — it happens when people co-create belonging for each other. 🌸🌈We are also grateful to the Watershed Center team for taking such impeccable care of our group.🍀

09/01/2026

08/31/2026

08/11/2026

"Feminists have long since pointed out that those on the bottom of any unequal social arrangement tend to think about, and therefore care about, those on top more than those on top think about, or care about, them.

Women everywhere tend to think and know more about men’s lives than men do about women, just as black people know more about white people’s, employees about employers’, and the poor about the rich."

- David Graeber

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/caring-too-much-thats-the-curse-of-the-working-classes/

08/06/2026

“It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties.”

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

08/02/2026

Ibram X. Kendi traces how the Great Replacement Theory turns demographic anxiety into political grievance—and grievance into authoritarian power.