by samfrida | Feb 19, 2026 | Blog
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...
by samfrida | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog
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...
by samfrida | Feb 16, 2026 | Blog
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...
by samfrida | Feb 15, 2026 | Blog
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...
by samfrida | Feb 14, 2026 | Blog
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...
