tag:hannahrooth.com,2005:/blogs/on-internal-and-external-dictators?p=2Hannah Rooth of Wild Hum2023-12-20T10:56:02-08:00Hannah Rooth of Wild Humfalsetag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/73219032023-12-20T10:56:02-08:002023-12-20T10:56:03-08:00a foundational building block of my healing: embracing sexual self-love<p>I've been thinking about the beginning of my journey into emotional wellness + spiritual connection. It started with intentional masturbation! I was coming out of a repressive childhood + difficult marriage, and felt such a strong craving to experience pleasure in my body. This foundation has served me so far beyond my sexuality though. Getting acquainted with and prioritizing my pleasure & desires from a self-love and self-care lens has been a powerful building block of trauma recovery, connecting deeply to the energy of my body, and learning to navigate life with a happiness and acceptance that serves me + those I love. <br>If you're interested in leaning into this part of yourself, I recommend finding a teacher to follow who approaches sexuality from a non-shaming, self-love perspective. </p><p> </p><p><i><strong>here are some resources i've used</strong></i></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://youtu.be/pHeggbJA4QM?si=2UHKB7gOzftTZ-xt" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Layla Martin (I took her jade egg class)</a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://start.omgyes.com/join" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">OMGYes</a> (findings from the largest-ever research study into women's pleasure)</p><p> </p><p><i>(these resources are geared toward women - if you know of similar teachers / courses for men + non-binary folks, send over & I'll add to the list!)</i></p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/73111362023-11-29T15:06:29-08:002023-11-29T15:09:34-08:00grief isn’t just about death (grief songs ‘23-’24)<p dir="ltr">beautiful friends,<br><br>i’m really looking forward to hosting this winter’s season of “grief songs.” last year's season was an exceptionally deep, warm, healing, and soothing experience for me. see below for reviews from other participants and details for attending this year. first, though, i’d like to share some context with you on the events and why they may be relevant to you.</p><p dir="ltr"> </p><h3><i><strong>what is grief?</strong></i></h3><p dir="ltr">grief is simply a response to loss. that loss could be that of a close person in your life - whether through death or other circumstances.</p><p dir="ltr">but grief is not just about physical death. it’s an emotion and experience that can arise because of <i>any</i> kind of loss: it could be the loss of something you held dear, or even the loss of something you needed and never had. </p><p>here are (just a few) examples of experiences that can cause grief:</p><ul>
<li>separation, divorce, a break-up</li>
<li>abuse, neglect, mistreatment </li>
<li>severing a strong bond of friendship</li>
<li>loss of a job or career</li>
</ul><p dir="ltr"> check out <a class="no-pjax" href="https://grievingmaman.com/2021/07/29/stages/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">this article</a> for more information </p><p> </p><h3><strong>grief songs may be the right event for you if</strong></h3><ul>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">you’re currently going through a season of loss</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">you have grief from your past that is not fully processed and you’d like a unique, supportive, welcoming experience to do so</li>
</ul><p> </p><h3><strong>reviews from last year</strong></h3><p dir="ltr"><i>What did you love most about the grief songs events?<strong> </strong></i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>“I loved that this event curated a space where people could feel comfortable being vulnerable in front of others, including strangers. It helped me realize the universal emotional of pain and loss, and it was a great way to connect to others who could have been experiencing similar things presented in the songs.”</i></p><p dir="ltr"> </p><p dir="ltr"><i>What kind of hope did you leave with?</i></p><p dir="ltr"><i>“a renewed hope. a reminder that we have within us the ability to treat each other with tenderness - we just need to do it more often”</i></p><p> </p><h3><strong>ways to participate</strong></h3><p dir="ltr"><i><strong>attend an event</strong> (or all three) ~ Los Angeles (stay tuned for option to participate virtually)</i></p><p dir="ltr">schedule:<br>part one: sat, dec 16, 7-10pm <a class="no-pjax" href="https://partiful.com/e/Rs6rV5QpaoHVReagPAdx?" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">RSVP required</a> <br>part two: sat, jan 27, 7-10pm <a class="no-pjax" href="https://partiful.com/e/XEiOXyLWR6d3qyqD9G3w" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"> RSVP required</a> <br>part three: sat, march 16, 7-10pm <a class="no-pjax" href="https://partiful.com/e/kye0OSQ3hyVR40pcZvDL" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">RSVP required</a> </p><p dir="ltr"> </p><p dir="ltr"><i><strong>share a song</strong></i><strong> </strong> </p><p dir="ltr"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://hannahrooth.com/grief-songs" target="_blank" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="grief songs">artist application here</a></p><p> </p><p dir="ltr"><i><strong>join the “grief chrysalis” support group</strong> ~ LA & online</i></p><p dir="ltr">a peer support group for participating in this season, through <a class="no-pjax" href="http://patreon.com/hannahplus" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Patreon.com/Hannahplus</a><br>available for folks in LA <i>or</i> online<br>$5+/month<br>opens 12/6/23, active through 3/19/24</p><p> </p><p> </p><h3><strong>a personal reflection from last year</strong></h3><p>🕯 i've never experienced grief in the presence of as much conscious love as i did during grief songs: part one. it added a lightness to the experience of sorrow. like being carried, in the soul. 🕯</p><p> </p><p dir="ltr">i hope you’ll join us this year.</p><p> </p><p dir="ltr">all my love,<br>hannah rooth<br><i>music + community for misfits</i><br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://hannahrooth.com/grief-songs" target="_blank" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="grief songs"><i>http://hannahrooth.com/grief-songs</i></a></p><p dir="ltr"> </p><p dir="ltr"><strong>new music:</strong><i> </i><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm_7XB6xPgI" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><i>break me down again on youtube</i></a></p><p dir="ltr"> </p><p style="text-align:right;" dir="ltr"><i><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/345115/60562aa2d02775c88ba10f8a4789e2b0d1a52840/original/0s3a3493.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></i><span class="text-small"><i>Allison Tulk Photography</i></span></p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/71820882023-03-31T15:37:23-07:002023-10-16T07:57:17-07:00How would Jesus treat trans people?<div><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":rd0:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b">
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Dear Christian + conservative loved ones,</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">I’m trying to figure out how to write this letter to you from a place in my heart that you can hear and stay open to.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">I’m worried for the sake of my trans friends. My friends - those who I know and love dearly, and those who I haven’t met - who feel so rejected and unwelcome in this world.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Rejection hurts so badly. Especially when it comes from the people who we need, who we rely on. Many of us know this feeling. It’s old and deep; it happens when we’re young. Parents aren’t perfect - we are all muddling our way through this world with a heavy load - and when our parents don’t know how or don’t have time or energy to meet our needs, it can sting in the deepest place.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">This pain is very very difficult to touch. Most of us spend our time and energy avoiding it, feeling that it will drag us down and consume us if we let it rear its head. And we don’t have time for that - we’re just trying to survive and keep our lives together. To do our best. To help out where we can.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">But when this dark, cowering monster is unseen, living deep within us, without any care or attention, it impacts parts of our psyche. It becomes a voice in our head that tells us when we are or aren’t worthy of love. When we are or aren’t worthy of acceptance. When we are or aren’t worthy of celebration and embrace.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">The message of the Christian religion is that we are all worthy of love. We are worthy of love because God loves us. We cannot be unworthy of love within the embrace of the unconditional love of God.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">We each have nuanced perspectives from which we view the world. We each have our own inner demons to wrestle with. Life is full of questions and we must each approach our quest for truth individually.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">But one thing is very simple, and you can understand it, if you will take a little time, and make a little space in your heart.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">My trans friends in this country are feeling deeply unloved and deeply rejected. They are feeling profoundly afraid. They are being harmed, and being told, in a hundred different ways, that they do not belong here. That they are not allowed here.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">My trans friends need you. They need you to travel a little ways into your own discomfort, and to listen to them. They need you to sit within the discomfort of your own gaze at them, and remind yourself that the person in front of you is a full human who God loves, who is worthy of respect, who is worthy of being listened to - really listened to. They need you to intervene within the online and in person spaces you are in where they are being ridiculed and dehumanized. They need you to take the courage to remind your community that trans people exist, that trans people are worthy of love and respect.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Love does not force a person to its will. God does not force us to his will in order to be deserving of love. We should not try to force others into our own will, our view of the world, of gender, of our comfort zone, in order to view them as worthy of respect and love. Jesus didn’t hang the Roman empire on crosses and bleed out their “sins.” He let the nails be pounded into his own flesh and he opened himself up to understanding the pain.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">How can we open our hearts to people who make us uncomfortable? Who make us angry? Who, perhaps, make us feel disgust? Fear?</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">I am opening my heart now in this way, to you. The actions of your community make me feel these emotions (^), often. I hope you are listening to me. If you are, thank you. I love you. I’m here for you as you take courage to speak up in defense of the humanity of all people.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">If we can’t find love within the hardest parts of our humanity, what worth does the message of Jesus have?</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Thank you for taking the time to read.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Hannah</span></div>
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</div></div></div></div></div>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/71316352023-01-02T14:00:06-08:002023-01-19T07:09:16-08:00PRESS RELEASE: Los Angeles Artists Create “Go Iran Go Go” Music Video in Solidarity with Iran’s Revolution, Call Local Creators to Engage <p>12-29-2022 </p>
<p>Contact: John Broadway: 559-827-8099, jbroadway@artivistsunited.com </p>
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<p><strong>Artivists United: Los Angeles Artists Create “Go Iran Go Go” Music Video in Solidarity with Iran’s Revolution, Call Local Creators to Engage </strong></p>
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<p>Los Angeles, CA – On November 19th, 2022, over a dozen creatives from different parts of the world gathered in Los Angeles to express solidarity with the Iranian women’s movement. On Wednesday December 28th, the music video was released through a collaboration with Artivists United, a social impact film/video and event production company. </p>
<p>The music video is a rewrite of Garbage’s Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go), scripted by Marianina, a Los-Angeles based Mexican artist who writes songs to make people happy, break the mold and change the world. The powerful lyrics reflect messages seen on social media from those on the ground in Iran. The artists pay up-tempo reverence to the power of Iranian women - and women worldwide - who push our world toward peace and freedom for all through incredible acts of individual courage and collective solidarity. The now over 100-day long women-led Iranian revolution is unprecedented in scale, intersectional solidarity, and resolve, and holds the power and intention to remove the theocratic, terroristic Islamic regime. </p>
<p>Though unique in circumstance, intensity of risk, and powerful local collectivization, the aims of the Iranian people are universal and must be elevated everywhere. True peace and freedom, rooted in love and respect for the individual’s rights to self-expression, are at the core of this powerful revolution and must be uplifted by artists, activists, and creators worldwide. </p>
<p>Artivists United invites Los Angeles creatives to connect their own work in solidarity with the Iranian Revolution. The organization is accepting submissions in all artistic mediums for their event, “WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM: Solidarity with Iran,” at The Heart Department (Arts District on January 29th, 2023. This event will include an art gallery, featured musical artists, an open mic, and an altar-building ceremony for the martyrs of the Iranian revolution. More details to follow. </p>
<p>“We envision this event as an ongoing effort to inspire artists to use their craft for activism while providing them the opportunity to do so.” – John Broadway, Founder – Artivists United. </p>
<p>Artist Submission Form: <a contents=" http://tinyurl.com/artwithiran" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://tinyurl.com/artwithiran" target="_blank"> http://tinyurl.com/artwithiran </a></p>
<p>About Artivists United: Artivists United is a burgeoning film/video and events production company that seeks to use their film/video and events as a foundation for social justice campaigns by empowering artivists (artist-activists) to utilize the change-making power of art. </p>
<p>Music Video Contributors: Marianina, Hannah Rooth, Natalie Denise Sperl, Cello Azul, SunXochitl Castro, Nicole Trella, Venganza Lives, Grace Freeman (Gal Musette), Michael Priz, Nikolas Salazar, Jorge Cajias, Shachar Boussani, John Kwesi Broadway, Latoya Lee, Victoria Xashara </p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/71309372022-12-31T15:16:18-08:002023-01-05T11:46:19-08:00PRESS RELEASE: Grief Songs: Showcase & Communal Grief Experience <p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/345115/c1b0823f1938a26a5181a3f160d698196216b255/original/square-grief-songs-flyer-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE </strong></p>
<p>December 31, 2022 </p>
<p><strong>For more information email: </strong></p>
<p>Hannah Rooth, hannahroothmusic@gmail.com </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Grief Songs: Showcase & Communal Grief Experience </strong></p>
<p>(Los Angeles, California) – Oasis House Show invites the public to join “Grief Songs: Part Two,” a fusion of artistic expression and community healing practice. "Part One" of this series was a unique experience, and participants left feeling relaxed and connected. “At a lot of shows, people will share vulnerable music sometimes, but there was something about this event that really prepped me as I came in. I knew that it was gonna be a safe space … that I could sit with those feelings, and I was really surprised at how much they came up but that I really did feel safe to lean in and express them,” reflected Aries Kae, local hip-hop singer and rapper. </p>
<p>"Grief Songs: Part Two" will take place on Saturday, January 21st, 2023, from 1-5pm, at Oracle Tavern (Downtown Los Angeles). It will include a sad-song showcase, meditative grief experience, and the opportunity to financially support Healthcare NOW, an organization working to expand healthcare to everyone nationally. With community members who are immuno-compromised and disabled in mind, it will be held outdoors, with masks required and distancing precautions. Spanish and ASL translation will be provided.</p>
<p>“Grief Songs” experientially demonstrates links between internal, communal, and sociopolitical love. Everyone experiences grief and needs loving support to heal and integrate experiences of loss, as everyone experiences illness and death and needs access to care services, including physical and mental healthcare. When we leave community members out in the cold, trauma and pain multiply and we all suffer the consequences. Though a few individuals “profit” off of our healthcare system, which is out of reach for many*, our whole society suffers as we are each impaired by the loss of connection to each other and to our natural inclination to care for one another. In gathering to recognize this reality, we plant seeds for a shift in the living ethic of our city and our society. </p>
<p>The flow of this event is carefully curated and guests are strongly encouraged to attend for the full duration. Featured artists include Asia Chow, Hannah Rooth, Tori Leppert, OAKS, Marisa Reyes, Geneva May, Justin Dyer, Marianina, and more to be announced. Entry by donation, based on attendees’ means, between $0-500. Profits generated will go 80% to Healthcare NOW and 20% to artists. Seating is limited for safety reasons and expected to sell out. Livestream tickets are available with special perks. </p>
<p><strong>Tickets:</strong> <a contents="https://tinyurl.com/griefsongs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://tinyurl.com/griefsongs" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/griefsongs </a></p>
<p><strong>Seeking sponsorship and volunteers.</strong> Email Hannah at hannahroothmusic@gmail.com to contribute. </p>
<p><strong>Website: </strong><a contents="http://hannahrooth.com/griefsongs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://hannahrooth.com/griefsongs" target="_blank">http://hannahrooth.com/griefsongs </a></p>
<p>*Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a study published online by the American Journal of Public Health. (David Cecere. Sept 17, 2009. The Harvard Gazette.) </p>
<p>*Health care expenses were the most common cause of bankruptcy in the United States in 2007, accounting for 62% of US bankruptcies compared with 8% in 1981. (James E. Dalen, MD. August 28, 2009. The American Journal of Medicine.)</p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/71086642022-11-22T19:30:10-08:002022-11-23T09:43:58-08:00PRESS RELEASE: GRIEF SONGS<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>November 22, 2022 </p>
<p>For more information email:<br>Hannah Rooth hannahroothmusic@gmail.com </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Grief Songs: Showcase & Communal Grief Experience </strong></p>
<p><strong>(Los Angeles, California)</strong> Oasis House Show curator Hannah Rooth and team invite the public to join two-part series: “Grief Songs,” a showcase of local artists and meditative grief experience raising funds for Healthcare NOW, an organization working to expand healthcare to everyone nationally. </p>
<p>Grief Songs: Part One will take place on December 2nd from 7-10pm in Downtown Los Angeles. Entry by pre-sale only. Tickets: <a contents="https://tinyurl.com/griefso" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://tinyurl.com/griefso" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/griefso</a></p>
<p>Grief Songs: Part Two is set for January 2023 with details to be announced at a later time. </p>
<p>Inspired by the isolation and grief caused by the COVID pandemic and the cultural overemphasis on individualism, Grief Songs is an experimental fusion of artistic expression and community healing practice. The primary purpose of the event is to bring members of the community together to open their hearts to the grief we so often feel compelled to bury or keep to ourselves. The Oasis House Show team hopes to stimulate emotional vulnerability and healing in the community by curating events that welcome people to come as they are. Oasis House Show aims to not exclude based on class, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, or other factors that are commonly used to oppress groups of people. </p>
<p>Grief Songs: Part One will last three hours and include songs from over a dozen local musicians. It will take place in an indoor, residential location with masks required. There will be a guided grief meditation and a message from local activists working to expand healthcare to all. Featured artists include Charlie Moon, Hannah Rooth, Tori Leppert, OAKS, Marisa Reyes, Aries Kae, Don, Hailey Fishberger, Lauren Hulbert, Spring Owls, Olivia Rose Lopez, Sierra Drummond, and Manoela Wunder. </p>
<p>Profits generated by the event will go 50% to Healthcare NOW and 50% to the participating artists (though most artists have chosen to contribute their portions to Healthcare NOW). For tickets, the organizers are asking for donations based on attendees’ means of $0-500. </p>
<p>Entry to Grief Songs: Part One is by presale only through the <a contents="ticket page on Eventbrite" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grief-songs-part-one-sad-song-showcase-communal-grief-experience-tickets-470792461927" target="_blank">ticket page on Eventbrite</a>. Seating is limited and expected to sell out. </p>
<p>Grief Songs: Part Two will feature artists Greg in Good Company, Asia Chow, Annie Jay, Marisa Reyes, Justin Dyer, Susan Darvishi, Rocky Kuner, and more special guests to be announced. It will take place in an outdoor location with masks required and special precautions for the sake of immuno-compromised and disabled community members. Spanish and ASL translation will be provided. </p>
<p>Potential sponsors, volunteers, or contributors can email Hannah at hannahroothmusic@gmail.com. </p>
<p>Webpage: <a contents="http://hannahrooth.com/griefsongs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://hannahrooth.com/griefsongs" target="_blank">http://hannahrooth.com/griefsongs</a></p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/68435542021-12-16T16:04:46-08:002021-12-16T17:06:04-08:00Happy Holigays!<p><em>Kat Hamilton presents</em></p>
<p><span class="font_xl"><strong>Happy Holigays!</strong></span></p>
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<p>A queer showcase to celebrate and build queer community in Los Angeles!</p>
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<p><em>SHOW DETAILS</em></p>
<p>Friday, December 17, 2021<br>9pm til Midnight<br>Hotel Cafe, Second Stage<br>1623 N Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028<br>$10<br>21+<br>Vaccination proof required<br><a contents="Tickets" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://new.hotelcafe.com/event/kat-hamilton-presents-happy-holigays/" target="_blank">Tickets</a></p>
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<p>Zee Machine is a Midwestern born, internationally raised, music school educated pop/rock/electronic singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. With infectious hooks, soaring vocals, and cutting lyrics, their empowering music and live sets are a celebration of all things queer. With influences ranging from Prince and Jeff Buckley to The 1975 and MUNA, they have brought a brand of arena-ready pop bombast to major venues throughout Los Angeles to crowds of thousands at Pride festivals across the country. Zee Machine’s 2018 EP “Brainchemistry” debuted in the top 25 on the iTunes pop charts (the title track of which was named by Billboard magazine on their list of “50 songs you shouldnt have missed this year”), and named by The Advocate on their list of 7 queer artists changing the game.</p>
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<p>RYAN CASSATA</p>
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<p>Ryan Cassata is an award winning singer-songwriter, actor, performer, writer, LGBTQ activist & motivational speaker based in Los Angeles. With features in GRAMMY.com, Rolling Stone, Billboard, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, and The NY Daily News, Ryan has made the most of his career, which started when he was just 13. </p>
<p>As a musician with over 600 performances touring across the US and internationally, including being the first openly trans performer at the Vans Warped Tour, along with performing at Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Green Show, the world’s biggest pride festivals, and SXSW, Ryan has been praised by The Advocate Magazine- calling him a “Transgender singing sensation.” Paper Magazine put him on their "50 LGBTQ Musicians You Should Prioritize" list, and LOGO’s New Now Next included Ryan on the “9 Trans Musicians You Need To Get Into” list. Billboard Magazine called Ryan a “true force in the industry“, put him on the "11 Transgender & Non-Binary Musicians You Need to Know" list, premiered from his latest album [2020], and premiered his award winning music video [2018] which has been viewed over 1,000,000 times. He has also been heard on Sirius XM Radio, BBC Radio 4 and other radio stations around the world. Ryan Cassata is a 2019 recipient of The ASCAP Foundation "Sunlight of the Spirit" Award for his song “Jupiter." More info at www.ryancassata.com</p>
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<p>KAT HAMILTON</p>
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<p>Kat Hamilton is a west-coast, singer, songwriter and performer. Hamilton has had the career trajectory of a chameleon; lending her talents to pop-punk, emo, r&b, hip-hop, pop, and country. In 2017, Hamilton ended her five year run as the front woman of popular east-coast pop punkers, Manic Pixi. The multiple SXSW performer, reemerged with her own vulnerable approach to Indie-Rock. </p>
<p>Kat Hamilton’s debut e.p “The Grey Area” dropped on November 5th, 2018. The intimate blend of country, pop, and emo has become a darling of Spotify playlists and indie bloggers alike. Her standout single "Bees" was featured on Fox's family dramedy, Almost Family (2019). After relocating to Los Angeles, CA, Hamilton has shifted her focus to her upcoming solo album. The songwriters full length album, “Recovery Songs” is slated for release in 2020 </p>
<p>“so honest, it makes us wanna be BFFs with Kat right away. Sweet sounds and journal-worthy lyrics look good on the songstress.”- Idobi Radio </p>
<p>“Hamilton has a pop punk background, and you can hear that influence in the guitars and drums on The Grey Area. That being said, it’s impossible to box her into one genre, as she also incorporates poppier melodies and an impressive musical range..”- Substream magazine </p>
<p>For fans of Mitski, Jenny Lewis and City and Colour</p>
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<p>BRITT KUSSEROW</p>
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<p>Britt Kusserow is a singer/songwriter who has lived in too many places. She writes music about women, ships, and the universe. She knows very little about any of those things. Her latest EPs, "Concessions" and “Absolutions” feature a bunch of post-same-sex-divorce-songs that are full of weird weather metaphors and ideas about redemption. You can find both on Spotify. </p>
<p>Vents Magazine says of Kusserow: “With songs that tend to be lyrically focused, with simple, catchy guitar or piano accompaniment, she is a great fit into the folk and acoustic based genres."</p>
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<p>HANNAH ROOTH</p>
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<p>“Sometimes we feel overwhelmed and trapped by our emotions. I use music to express myself in a way that's so raw, my demons have nowhere left to hide. I invite you to use my work to enter the darkest parts of yourself and embrace your power.</p>
<p>If you're a misfit ready to build power & intimacy through emotional honesty, join our community at patreon.com/hannahroothmusic” -Hannah</p>
<p>Hannah Rooth makes dark americana soul & electropop music with equal parts emotional power and lyrical integrity. She organizes LA's Oasis House Show and was featured in the LA Times for anti-racist work.</p>
<p>“[hearing her live] was like being at my own funeral watching my body being lowered into the ground” - Charlie Lubeck / Charlie Moon</p>
<p>"Hannah’s honest, amazing voice captivates you right away with its inner power, so clear and vulnerable." - Tonic Grain, Hype Machine </p>
<p>“Hannah has a voice that is reminiscent of Lady Gaga, the presence of a fearless and charismatic visionary, and the authenticity of a history book.” - Skippy</p>
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<p> </p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/67081272021-08-05T13:58:45-07:002021-08-05T14:04:06-07:00resources that've been helping me make it through these days<ol> <li>20 minute YouTube meditations <a contents="like this one" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1-D_Eoqag51xkpJMRJgFLQOUnPYv7fp" style="" target="_blank">such as these<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/345115/910201c4c0a59d2fc4b1f165a10f512f93f25723/original/screen-shot-2021-08-05-at-1-39-41-pm.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a>
</li> <li>WYSA - free Cognitive Behavioral Therapy based app (To get free premium access, use my code S5J67 while <a contents="signing up here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://app.wysa.io/mYhZ" style="" target="_blank">signing up here</a>.) <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/345115/0cf710f701fbcd8b252cc21ed702408bd6f66b67/original/screen-shot-2021-08-05-at-1-41-39-pm.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></li> <li>Therapy! I found my therapist on <a contents="betterhelp.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.betterhelp.com" style="" target="_blank">betterhelp.com</a><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/345115/b6ff5ae96b344610124f054cd4e8dac4fed28651/original/screen-shot-2021-08-05-at-1-45-12-pm.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><em>Working on my <strong>emotional literacy</strong>. Our society sadly doesn't teach us about how emotions work and how to address them. Here are some resources I use:</em>
</li> <li>Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg. This method is extremely useful not only for improving relationships with others, but for creating more peace and understanding within oneself. Here is a <a contents="free instructional guide" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.cnvc.org/sites/default/files/NVCInstructionGuide_Jiva_.pdf" style="" target="_blank">free instructional guide</a> to get you started.<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/345115/e39b5998ae703865724cf24dd4bfbaa18e22269e/original/nvc-tree-of-life.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></li> <li>Here's a <a contents="YouTube playlist" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1-D_Eoqag64rgtxOprTSHkhAvYpqD-p" style="" target="_blank">YouTube playlist</a> where I'm saving other resources.<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/345115/38ba63fa9d5a06aa83a1611534f7394694570385/original/screen-shot-2021-08-05-at-1-56-46-pm.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></li>
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<p>much love & healing to you~</p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/66326572021-05-17T11:46:29-07:002021-05-17T11:47:09-07:00on feminism<p style="text-align: right;">excerpt from <em>music & meditation: on feminism</em> zoom show on 5/16/21</p>
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<p>Feminism is important not just as an appeal for women's rights, but an appeal for human rights. </p>
<p>In our patriarchal, capitalist society, unlimited expansion and hoarded resources by a few are prioritized. The needs of human beings are treated as necessary only inasmuch as they serve the primary goal of hoarded resources (capital). </p>
<p>In other words, if it doesn't help capitalists hoard more shit, it isn’t prioritized or rewarded in society. </p>
<p>Many human needs, such as those provided through care-taking, are offloaded onto the backs of women, who receive little to no resources in exchange for their labor. </p>
<p>Think about it. </p>
<p>Women get paid nothing for mothering children, which is a huge service to society (perhaps the biggest). </p>
<p>Caring for the elderly, cleaning, nursing, and teaching - all traditionally women's careers - are paid very little while providing some of the most essential services for fulfilling human need and enriching life. </p>
<p>Women's oppression is expressed very tangibly in society: through no or little compensation for our labor. And the personal ways that women's oppression affects us as individuals are linked to this disenfranchisement. </p>
<p>The relegation of women is in fact a relegation of human need in general. The human need for care. For touch. For tenderness. For space. To be listened to. To be seen. To be nurtured. To be taught. To be all of the tender things that make us human, that make us feel most alive. To be BORN, for fucks sake. </p>
<p>The very tangible social message - which is communicated to us through how resources are allocated - is that these needs don't matter. And this message can't help but touch all of us. And it teaches us a very dangerous lesson. It teaches us not to care for each other. It teaches us not to care for ourselves. </p>
<p>When we aren't properly cared for, misery abounds. Violence in many external forms. Violence in internal forms too. Addiction. Mental and physical health disorders. Suicide. </p>
<p>Feminism is a force of fierce and holistic protectiveness that seeks to bring humanity back to itself. </p>
<p>Feminism is about people who have had their rights stripped by society taking them back. Feminism is about standing and working and fighting in solidarity with all who've had their rights taken away and are taking them back. </p>
<p>Feminism is understanding that EVERYONE has a right to care; both in society and within our own private inner worlds. </p>
<p>It's working socially for the rights to housing, healthcare, dignity, and wellness for all. </p>
<p>It's working internally to reclaim a sense of honoring your needs instead of relegating them to the dark parts of your psyche. </p>
<p>Feminism is for all of us. And to rebuild society into one that works for human beings, it must be from all of us. What is feminism to you? </p>
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<p>GUIDED MEDITATION </p>
<p>So I’d like to focus our meditation today on reclaiming our relationship to our needs. </p>
<p>So we’re just gonna slow down, breathe deep, zone in, and ask ourselves, with care, the simple question, “What do you need?” </p>
<p>And we don’t need to worry about using our minds to answer the question. We can just relax into it, let ourselves go, and get reacquainted with caring for ourselves in this simple way, by asking, “What do you need?”</p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/66084872021-04-19T14:02:48-07:002021-04-19T14:02:48-07:00a celebration of my power<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/345115/421bb3c27b90414afa7a6e16bc8f16459f23c4ad/original/img-0301.jpeg" class="size_orig justify_center border_none" alt="" /><br><br>Really adore how this photo captures my essence & power. My boyfriend says I look like a witch. Couldn't be more proud of that.<br><br>I have come out of - and am still healing and navigating through - a religious and historical tradition intended to rob me of my power, my will, my vitality, my sexuality, my sacred womanhood, my beauty, and, on a deep level, my love.<br><br>I am so proud of the progress I've made.<br><br>I believe in myself, and I believe in all of us to heal and to create a new world.</p>
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<p><span class="font_small"><em>Photo captured by my dear friend and collaborator Kyle Burgs. Watch our music videos <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1-D_Eoqag4XEq1W7LwMgoEIxn7bbIkF" target="_blank">here</a>.</em></span></p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/65912872021-04-01T13:00:48-07:002023-12-10T09:44:31-08:00promise to myself (poem from 12/13/17)<p> </p>
<p><em>I refuse to cling to anybody <br>who doesn’t make the sun come out of my eyes <br>who doesn’t come to me like moonlight to the forest on dead winter’s night <br>who doesn’t take me in like shore lapping up the sea <br>and let it out like a home-come sailor meets the earth with his knees; <br><span class="font_xl">No, </span><br>this fragrant, raging, mountainous love of mine <br>will be returned in kind <br>will be returned in kind.</em></p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/345115/5ce34d7d214e93bc34397eac9eea15cbfcb1f3b1/original/img-0670.jpeg" class="size_orig justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/65042172020-12-20T14:47:51-08:002021-08-09T12:34:10-07:00mellow melodies and meditation: meditation transcription<p><span class="font_large">For those of us who are new to meditation, I want to just center us a little bit. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Meditation is about taking the deepest possible rest - for your mind and your body. <br>It’s about acceptance - to me, that means looking at what’s going on in my body and my mind, and just accepting it. Looking at it, letting it pass. Looking at it, waving it hello and goodbye. Not trying to change anything. Just getting right up close to whatever’s happening and observing. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Find comfortable place. Chair, floor, lay on couch or bed. I like to lay in my bed because it helps my whole body relax. If you’d like to leave your video on, that’s fine, but if it makes you feel more comfortable and safe to turn it off, then turn it off. (3 min) </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Now, I recommend closing your eyes so you can focus on your experience. Settle in, feel your body against the surface of your chair or bed. Notice each point of connection. (30 sec) </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Start with taking some deep breaths. Notice how your lungs feel and what happens in your body as you breathe in and out (1 min) </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">And as we settle in we’ll start to breathe a little deeper. And we’ll invite our exhales to become longer than our inhales. So in……. And then out just a little longer (1 min) </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Now one of the wonderful things about meditation is that it’s a practice of clearing our minds, and clearing out the clutter of constant thoughts. Our goal is to have just a quiet, empty mind, that’s open to exactly what’s happening in the present moment. But this is pretty difficult to do, just because most of us aren’t used to it. And that’s okay. It’s a practice, and you’ll get better at it with time. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">One way I’ve found to quiet my mind is by focusing in on the feelings in my body. So we’re going to practice that right now with a body scan. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">As we go throughout our bodies, starting with our heads, down to our feet, I want you to pay very close attention to what’s happening in each part of your body. Don’t try to change it, just look at it, and practice accepting exactly whatever is happening. What are the sensations? Does it feel warm? Cold? Tingly? Empty? Just look, listen, feel. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Let’s start with focusing on our head. (30 sec) </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Now move to focus on the face. (5 sec) </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Continue breathing deeply. (25 sec) </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Now focus on your neck. (30 sec) </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Now move down to the shoulders. (30 sec…. Continue like this.) </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So I wanted to have the event because of how stressful a time this has been for all of us. With that in mind, I want to teach you a kind of meditation I learned from a favorite teacher of mine, Thich Naht Hahn, called Tonglen meditation. It’s for working with pain or any kind of difficult emotion. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">First, I’m going to read a section of his writing from my favorite book, True Love. Please enjoy. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">*section from <a contents="True Love by Thich Naht" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YS-Ev7ZkBthSkDIdor0dTVPJIvcgQREx/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">True Love by Thich Naht</a> Hahn, "The Energy of Mindfulness."*</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So for Tonglen, you take whatever painful or uncomfortable feeling is happening in your body - whether it’s an emotional or physical feeling - and you visualize it as dark, heavy, sticky, weighing you down. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Then you identify some feeling or sensation that would be soothing and relieving for that emotion - whether that’s a blanket, a warm cup of tea, a hug, a listener - and you visualize that emotion as blue, expansive, bright, like the sky. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So you have your dark feeling and your light feeling to work with. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">When you breathe in, you visualize the negative feeling - you feel the dark, heavy, sticky, weighted feeling filling your whole body. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">And when you breathe out, you visualize the relieving feeling - you feel the blue, expansive, bright feeling coming out of your body and filling up your surroundings. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Think of this as generating inward care for whatever you are going through. Using your inner creative energy to relieve yourself. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The coolest thing about this meditation, though, is we can use it as a way to not only connect to yourself, but to everybody else. Because at any given time that you’re experiencing a difficult emotion, there are millions or hundreds of millions of people around the world who are feeling just the same way. So what we do, is when we breath in the pain - the darkness, heaviness, stickiness - we breathe it in for everyone in the world who is feeling that pain. And when we breathe out the relief, we breathe it out for everyone in the world who is feeling that pain. In this way, we can soothe ourselves while also generating compassion for others. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So, let’s practice this for just a few minutes. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">You can use an uncomfortable feeling you’re having right now, or recall one that you’ve experienced in the past few days, and practice with it.</span></p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/345115/c75a86fbbba11d2308acbb4e978231f02adb76ec/original/mellow-melodies-and-meditation.png" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/64824782020-11-20T15:06:09-08:002020-11-20T17:06:48-08:00thoughts on sexual liberation<p><span class="font_large">becoming sexually liberated is, for me, about so much more than sex- or even pleasure. it's about embracing my desire to give and receive love. about experiencing vulnerability as a form of strength with limitless potentiality. about realizing that the lines between "want" and "need" are not clear cut. about realizing that honoring myself does not inherently betray anyone else, but betraying myself betrays others also. about using every resource available to me. about overcoming depression. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">I've been socialized to view my body as an object of duty, productive capacity, and ultimately, as a failure to live up to the standards imposed on it. reclaiming my sexual self helps me restore a relationship to my body in which I view it as my very self, a flowing, beautiful, powerful recepticle for love, pleasure, creation, and essential being. </span></p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/345115/ea5e3fd9c0daa4039e51cdf3e07fc97a95debe38/original/3.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/63525022020-06-13T14:32:10-07:002020-06-17T14:26:05-07:00Black Lives Concert: Resources<p><span class="font_large"><strong>FIRST AND FOREMOST- this is an excellent resource guide for learning how to be an effective anti-racist.</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES" style="" target="_blank"><span style="color:#c0392b;">bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES</span></a></span></p>
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<p><strong>Featured Articles:</strong><br><a contents="How To Talk About the Truth and Trump at Thanksgiving" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-talk-trump-loving-relatives-thanksgiving/602704/" style="" target="_blank">How to Talk About the Truth and Trump at Thanksgiving</a> - Ibram X. Kendi<br><a contents="An Anti-Racist Reading List" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html" target="_blank">An Anti-Racist Reading List</a> - Ibram X. Kendi</p>
<p><strong>Featured Poetry:</strong><br>Selections from Salt by <a contents="Nayyirah Waheed" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.nayyirahwaheed.com/" target="_blank">Nayyirah Waheed</a><br><em>Caged Bird</em> by Maya Angelou<br><em>A Brave and Startling Truth</em> by Maya Angelou<br><em>On Working White Liberals</em> by Maya Angelou<br><em>A Small Needful Fact </em>by Ross Gay</p>
<p><span style="color:#16a085;">show archive coming</span></p>
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<p><strong><span class="font_xl">DONATE NOW: <a contents="bit.ly/blacklivesconcert" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/blacklivesconcert" target="_blank">bit.ly/blacklivesconcert</a></span></strong></p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/62585382020-03-22T16:37:11-07:002020-03-25T15:57:09-07:00Quiet Ways You Can Help Change the World <p> From Day 8 of <a contents="#TwentyOneDaysofHope" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1-D_Eoqag5ysAxMMwipXYDUnA7hQKN7" target="_blank">#TwentyOneDaysofHope</a></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">1. sign a petition</span></p>
<p> Here are some meaningful ones you can sign & then share with 5 friends:</p>
<ul> <li>Tax Amazon & Big Business: Fund CV Emergency Relief: <a contents="https://tinyurl.com/sedb5bc" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://tinyurl.com/sedb5bc" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/sedb5bc</a>
</li> <li> <p>Suspend rent, mortgage, & utility payment during the CV crisis: <a contents="https://bit.ly/3a6HUVX" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/3a6HUVX">https://bit.ly/3a6HUVX</a></p> </li> <li> <p>This Pandemic Demands A Systemic Response <a contents="Poor People's Campaign Petition" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/this-pandemic-demands-a-systemic-response-an-urgent-message-from-the-poor-people-s-campaign/?akid=260088.41985917.eYsjng&amp;rd=1&amp;source=moveon&amp;t=3" target="_blank">Poor People's Campaign Petition</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a contents="Healthcare Workers Need Protective Equipment" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/healthcare-workers-need-protective-equipment-now?akid=260044.41985917.RC1CLf&amp;rd=1&amp;source=mo&amp;t=8">Healthcare Workers Need Protective Equipment!</a></p>
<ul> <li> <p>More information about this: <a contents="Frontline NY Nurses Lack Protective Masks &amp; Ventilators, Say Worst Yet to Come as&nbsp;COVID-19 Spreads" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/25/frontline_healthcare_workers_ppe_shortage_coronavirus" target="_blank">Frontline NY Nurses Lack Protective Masks & Ventilators, Say Worst Yet to Come as COVID-19 Spreads</a></p> </li> </ul> </li>
</ul>
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<p><span class="font_large">2. check in on a friend</span></p>
<p> You never know who is struggling or how until you ask.</p>
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<p><span class="font_large">3. learn about someone’s struggles that you didn’t know about </span></p>
<p>Someone who is in a different demographic than you. </p>
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<p><span class="font_large">4. watch an enlightening documentary </span></p>
<p>Recommendations</p>
<p><em>netflix:</em> </p>
<ul> <li>Untold History of the United States </li> <li>13th</li> <li>American Factory</li> <li>Our Planet</li> <li>The Great Hack </li> <li>Knock Down the House </li> <li>Chasing Coral</li> <li>Inequality for All</li> <li>What The Health</li> <li>Cowspiracy</li> <li>The Family</li> <li>Dirty Money</li> <li>When They See Us</li> <li>Food Inc.</li> <li>The Magic Pill</li> <li>Cuba and the Cameraman</li> <li>The Pharmacist </li>
</ul>
<p><em>amazon prime: </em></p>
<ul> <li>Pride</li> <li>Citizenfour</li>
</ul>
<p>Drop your recommendations in the comments!</p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/62004922020-02-04T12:03:16-08:002021-12-31T11:47:59-08:00Supernatural - A Journal Entry<p>*I wrote this in the bathtub by red candlelight while he fell asleep*</p>
<p>There's something that feels supernatural about the love that I've fallen into. First there was how we met, how I felt at home with him; how I knew that I loved him within just a couple of days. How my walls came down around him - the courage I took to express by vulnerabilities - the way I felt so confident and safe in sharing them. The way our personalities and external lives are so different, and yet we seem to share the same heart, each having pieces of the same heart. A slow-won yet innate understanding of each other. As though the love were there before we were. I'm not religious, but this love is supernatural to me.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/345115/2adb8a551c2f7cafabacc5a2e503f21203fb01b2/original/img-0047.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em>Hannah Rooth, February 1, 2020</em></p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Humtag:hannahrooth.com,2005:Post/61939642020-01-28T13:36:38-08:002021-04-22T12:16:08-07:00On Internal and External Dictators<p><em>On the internal dictator </em></p>
<p>Tells you what you can’t do...<br>what you’re not good *enough* at...<br>that people will think you’re weird...<br>your friends won’t understand...<br>your family won’t approve...<br>your childhood god would disapprove...<br>you’ll probably fail...<br>it’s stupid...<br>that’s not what girls do...<br>that’s not what boys do...<br>it’s too scary...<br>*insert your own version here*...</p>
<p><em>On the external dictator </em></p>
<p>Defines what people are “bad” or “wrong” or need to be exterminated...<br>decides on what is socially allowed...<br>punishes, imprisons, represses for “otherness”...<br>represses creativity and creative action...<br>defines roles for all in society...<br>uses brainwashing and violence to maintain control...<br>defines the good or acceptable based on a social norm...</p>
<p><em><strong>If you cannot stand up to your internal dictator, how will you stand up to an external one?</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/345115/b41407407383e96e26ffea8e080c301f1df0af9a/original/2019-12-20-06-46-00-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_left border_" /></strong></em></p>
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<p><span style="color:#333333;">More resources on the idea of the internal dictator:</span><br><a contents="Regime Change" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2003/apr/13/shopping" style="" target="_blank"><span style="color:#333333;">Regime Change</span></a><br><a contents="Your Little Internal Dictator" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://juliajones.com/2017/06/01/your-little-internal-dictator/"><span style="color:#333333;">Your Little Internal Dictator</span></a></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">Resources on external dictators:</span><br><a contents="How Do Democracies Become Dictatorships?" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://vocal.media/theSwamp/how-do-democracies-become-dictatorships" style="" target="_blank"><span style="color:#333333;">How Do Democracies Become Dictatorships?</span></a></p>
<p>~Hannah Rooth</p>Hannah Rooth of Wild Hum