Lauren Suchenski

Wanda is not merely a compilation of her trauma, nor defined by it. She is the strength that arises from living with it.

The intellectual curiosity that it strikes in opening the door to imagining and querying depictions of life and death, both metaphysical and real, provides children with the kind of tools I always hope they may have when questioning their place in the universe.

Absolute power of the people.

Politics has nothing to do with fashion, and it should have everything to do with real, concrete work to bring about a better society.

We have a collective government on purpose.

As a symbolic figurehead of our country, as a locus of the collective consciousness of this nation, Trump rattles our darkest conscious aspects.

If everyone voted, the voice and climate of America would truly be visible.

I’m sorry to say, but I don’t believe not voting is an effective form of protest.

Who is to blame, how do we collapse this beast and truly, what are our basest instincts?

We live entwined with a deafening amount of inequality, unmatched in human history.

Blackout Tuesday was a fantastic start and had great effects for many black-owned businesses. Let’s double down.

Can we beg and fight and kick and scream in the direction of lawmakers to fund things differently? To decry and denounce racial injustice, police brutality, and systemic forms of separation and inequality that keeps the wealth gap too wide to sew shut? Can we arrange a list of demands? 

It’s a vitally important story, especially in America.

It’s a bittersweet ending that enacts real, mature peacemaking and new world growing.

Arcs don’t always go in a straight line, and neither do humans.

Her arc is honest and real and logical.

Perhaps everyone is putting too much emphasis on ‘Game of Thrones’ being about devastation, breaking convention, and huge, shocking moments.

i hear the Earth tucking in for the night. i hear women carrying cities on their backs.