SAM Frida

There is something deeply wrong with a world that makes people feel they have to earn the right to be treated as human.I have never understood monarchy. I respect history, and I understand how power structures evolve over centuries, but at its core, the idea that one...

There is a particular kind of disillusionment that comes slowly at first, then all at once.It starts with a seed. Something someone says offhandedly, a detail that doesn’t quite fit the image you’ve held of a person. You brush it past. You might even feel a little...

This is not about politics. Stop making it about politics. That framing is keeping you in the dark, and I mean that literally. As long as you’re arguing left versus right, red versus blue, you are watching the wrong screen. You are being kept busy watching the wrong...

Most of us have mastered the answer to “How are you?” Good. Busy. Can’t complain. We deliver it smoothly, automatically, before the question has even finished landing. And the person asking exhales, relieved they don’t have to hold anything heavy today.We’ve built an...

February 14th. The day we’ve collectively agreed is the day to prove we love someone. But have you ever stopped to think about how we got here? Valentine’s Day traces back to one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The romantic connection didn’t really...

There’s a video by Lovette Jallow that I keep thinking about. It’s about asexuality, but not in the clinical, checkbox way the topic is so often handled. Instead, it opens with an invitation to consider that what we’ve been taught to see as absence might actually be...

Every generation arrives at a fork in the road. A moment where the path splits, and what we choose reveals who we really are.Give ten people a hammer. Some will build a house. Others will tear one down. Give ten people money, power, influence, and the same split...

I came across this quote recently and it stopped me mid-scroll - “Knowledge doesn’t break you loudly. It isolates you politely. That’s why fools gather, and observers disappear.” This isn’t about intellectual superiority. It’s not about being smarter than anyone. It’s...

There are people who will tell you they understand you. They’ll say it with confidence. They’ll list the evidence. They’ve observed you. Studied your patterns. Catalogued your reactions. They’ll call themselves emotionally intelligent because they’ve learned the...