SAM Frida
Unfiltered – ish
The Roughness of Unmasking: Speaking Your Truth in a World That Isn’t Ready
There is nothing clean about unmasking. Nothing tidy or graceful about the moment you decide to stop performing and start speaking your truth. It is rough. It is raw. And it will cost you something. But here is what I have learned sitting in my own pause, doing the...
Empathy Burnout Is Real
There’s a version of tired that sleep doesn’t fix. It’s the kind that comes from being the person who always understands. The one who puts herself in everyone else’s shoes, who makes space, who translates her own pain into language other people can receive without...
From the Nobodies to the Somebodies: A Letter to Every Woman
She is the mother who skipped meals so her children wouldn’t. The girl who walked miles to a schoolhouse because she believed the world owed her nothing but she’d take her seat anyway. She is the scientist they almost didn’t publish. The activist they jailed. The...
Where Does the Money Go? (And Why It Should Change How You Vote)
Here’s a question most of us never stop to ask: when the government spends money on “defense,” where does that money actually end up? A recent report from Brown University’s Costs of War project lays it out clearly. Between 2020 and 2024, private companies received...
AI Didn’t Write Itself: The Humans Behind the Model, and Why It Matters
There is a story we are frequently told about artificial intelligence. It goes something like this: a brilliant system, trained on the sum of human knowledge, can now write your emails, summarise legal documents, explain complex medical conditions, and generate code...
In the End
Frida Kahlo wrote that there is nothing we must do to be loved. That those who love us see us with their hearts and give us qualities beyond the ones we truly have. And that those who refuse to love us will never be satisfied with all our efforts. Read that again. Now...
The Water and the Well
There’s a story about almond farms in California. Massive industrial operations that consumed so much water that communities across the border in Mexico started running dry. The companies made billions. The people lost their water. Then, somehow, the public...
Prediction Is Not a Gift
People tend to predict you. They watch, they observe, they form a picture. And then they manage their behavior according to what they think you'll do next. Most people think this ability to read others is a kind of gift. I think it's something else entirely. I think...
The Other Heartbeat
There is a shift happening, and it is not subtle. People are waking up. Not on some timeline that respects your sales quarter or your product roadmap. On their own timeline. Through loss, through watching the world fracture, through the slow and sometimes sudden...