SAM Frida

Please stop hurting animals. I’m begging people to stop. Feel your wounds. Face your pain. Work through whatever is inside you, but please don’t put it onto a living being that cannot understand why you’re hurting them. Animals don’t want to hurt you. They trust you....

To the Ones Who Can’t Unsee It My heart goes out to the neurodivergent people who can see the fucking pattern. You know what I mean. You look around at what is happening in this country, in the world, in our institutions, in leadership, in the way human beings are...

There’s a pattern I keep noticing. The louder some people are about how religious they are, the more I sometimes wonder what the performance is protecting. I’m not talking about everyone. I know genuinely religious people whose beliefs make them kinder, humbler, more...

I think I’ve given up on humanity a little. Not on people. On humanity. On all the bullshit we’ve built around being human. Because the older I get, the more I think there are really only two kinds of people: good people, and wounded people who have made peace with...

The world does not become bigger or smaller because we draw borders across it. The land remains where it has always been. The oceans do not move. The sky does not recognize passports. What borders can do is tear lives apart. They separate families. They turn lovers...

I had almost no boundaries before. I could hear someone’s story, feel what they were carrying, and somehow carry it with me for the rest of the day. It would stay in my head, follow me home, become something I needed to understand or somehow make sense of. I still...

My favorite people are messy, and they own it. They’re self-aware, not because they want to look evolved, but because they are deeply committed to becoming better for themselves. They make mistakes. They apologize. They’re not afraid to be wrong, because being right...

There comes a point when trying to be understood becomes exhausting. You explain yourself. Then explain yourself differently. You clarify your intentions. You find better words. You send the longer message because the shorter one didn’t work. You search for the...