Practicing Liberation
Alli's musings on how I can practice liberation in almost every facet of my life.
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This is my scariest article to share (opens the original)
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Every morning I sit at my altar. It's an altar to the Divine, and I light candles and try to tap in. This morning I did that, and I got this beautiful message,one that felt really, truly connected to the Divine. I wrote it down.Then I pulled oracle cards, which I also do every morning. Today I pulled from my Oshun deck. I've been studying the Black Madonna in the Black Madonna Freedom School, hosted by the great Dr. Christena Cleveland, and one of the things I keep learning is how many examples
Baby Steps (opens the original)
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This morning, as I was getting ready, Olivia Dean's "Baby Steps" came up in my music feed. I'd been thinking about practice and experimentation, about what it actually takes to do something imperfectly, in public, again and again. So when that song came on I had an a-ha. That's what practice is. Baby steps.Practicing being seen. Practicing being vulnerable. Taking those little tiny steps to try every day. And something came up for me that I hadn't put words to before.Some of the root of my fear
Befriending the Word Polarize (opens the original)
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I pulled this card recently and it really made me pause.Befriend the word polarize.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="2992" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U5vl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2F
The Call Is Coming From Inside the House (opens the original)
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The Call Is Coming From Inside the HouseThe people building AI just asked the government to help them slow down.Over the weekend, the CEO of Anthropic published a long essay saying the industry is moving too fast and needs to pace itself. Within hours, the heads of OpenAI and xAI said they agreed. And then, almost in the same breath, came the caveat: to actually do it, they'd need government support.Practicing Liberation is a reader-supported publication. To receive n
I remember. (opens the original)
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I didn’t realize it until I wrote the date in my journal this morning. Twenty-five years.The date itself always hits me in the gut. But this year feels different. Maybe it’s because of the number 25 associated with something that feels (and will probably always feel) like recent memory. There are people in the workplace now whose memories of that day were made entirely out of other people’s memories, other people’s stories, other people’s pictures. They weren’t born yet. <p clas
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