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a mountain range with some snow-capped peaks. there are sun-suffused clouds behind them, and the sun glows on the lower right.
on Generational Trauma/on Hope

real elvish rope

Posted on September 6, 2023 by Nix Kelley

We cannot take every memory with us. We do not have to take every memory with us.

a photo of many lit candles in the dark
on Chosen Family/on Deathwork & Griefwork/on Hope/on Queerness

I am one with my queerness and my queerness is with me

Posted on June 1, 2023 by Nix Kelley

I love you, my siblings. My family. My dearest friends.

a rocket flies across the evening sky over an ocean, upward from left to right
on Chosen Family/on Decolonizing/on Harm & Reciprocity/on Hope/on Praxis

should we go back to where we started?

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Nix Kelley

We need to learn how to put down the weapons of our thoughts and voices that lead us to separate ourselves from one another.

an antlered deer in shadowed woods
on Hope/on Praxis/Poems/the Cycle of the Seasons/the Work

beltane

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Nix Kelley

Blessings of growth and blessings of earth for you today.

a sign on a building reads 'YOU'RE NOT LOST, YOU'RE HERE'
on Hope/on Neurodivergence/on Praxis/the Work

praxis is complicated and hard

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Nix Kelley

I think we've all been leaving things behind as we're able.

people marching with many signs, including a large sign held by several people, white with black letters that reads "we who believe in freedom cannot rest" by Ella Baker
on Deathwork & Griefwork/on Hope/on Queerness/the Work

fight like hell for the living

Posted on April 2, 2023 by Nix Kelley

It is never far from my thoughts that some of us have already said our last words to those who are beloved.

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Nix Kelley
Nix Kelley
Genderqueer non-binary trans. They/them/theirs. Death doula, clergy-in-training, writing about queer identity, death, hope, praxis, & song lyrics.
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I READ BANNED BOOKS

GENDERQUEER: a memoir (deluxe edition) by Maia Kobabe, read in one day in April 2023

We Do This Til We Free Us (audiobook) by Mariame Kaba, finished in May 2023

Be Gay, Do Comics, an anthology of queer comics, finished in June 2023

This Is How You Lose the Time War (audiobook), by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, finished in one day in July 2023


We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
remember who you are

The future cannot blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.

Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree
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