by samfrida | Mar 9, 2026 | Blog
There’s a quote by Grace Durbin that stopped me in my tracks: “People think you speak your own pain because you demand recognition and sympathy or you’re playing a victim. Rarely do they realize you speak your pain to save someone else from the demons in their own...
by samfrida | Mar 9, 2026 | Blog
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...
by samfrida | Mar 8, 2026 | Blog
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...
by samfrida | Mar 8, 2026 | Blog
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...
by samfrida | Mar 8, 2026 | Blog
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...
