Tricky Sol

Between 1740 and 1834, it was illegal to teach Black people to read—slave masters knew books were weapons of mass liberation. Now we have unlimited access to more knowledge than any generation in history, and we're choosing TikTok instead. Your ancestors died for the right to read; the least you can do is honor that sacrifice by picking up a muthafuckin' book.

Every utopian vision hides an uncomfortable truth: to build the better world, we must destroy aspects of the current one. The question isn't whether destruction will accompany creation—it's whether we'll be conscious participants in shaping what emerges from the necessary endings

Pride isn't just a celebration—it's a revolution birthed by Black and Brown trans women who threw the first bricks and paid the highest price for demanding the right to exist. What they created wasn't just safety for queer people; they cracked open society's rigid ideas about gender and self-expression, giving everyone more freedom to be human

A chance encounter with Billy Joel's "Movin' Out" in a store led to an unsettling realization: his 1977 critique of the American Dream wasn't just commentary—it was prophecy. In 2025, as people flee hostile states, question complicity in global crises, and reject systems designed to extract everything while giving nothing back, Joel's message about refusing to grind yourself to death for things that don't serve you has evolved from personal liberation to collective resistance

A throwaway line from Fleabag's therapist turned into an existential crisis. Turns out, the science of why we're attracted to religious figures reveals something profound about sacred longing, forbidden desire, and what we're all actually searching for.

At 55, Cree Summer is having the best sex of her life, and it's not because of technique. It's because she finally understands what "safety" really means: a partner who approaches challenges with confidence instead of panic. Turns out, your nervous system needs to feel safe before your body can surrender to pleasure - and that changes everything about how we think about intimacy.

Seven blogs. Seven invitations to remember what we've been taught to forget: that our bodies hold wisdom, that sovereignty means conscious connection not isolation, and that the sacred lives in every corner of our lives—from the dance floor to the dinner table. This isn't philosophy to study; it's a framework to embody, weaving together the fragments of ourselves that the world demands we keep separate.

'You know that's spiritual, right?' I told my roommates as we watched women dancing at a Caribbean carnival. They laughed, but I was serious. The twerking they saw as purely sexual connects to West African sacred practices—embodied wisdom about healing trauma and honoring the divine that the Western world has deliberately forgotten.

There are people who will bait you into playing their games, using your vulnerabilities against you. But here's what they don't want you to know: you're always in control of whether you engage. This is how I reclaimed my emotional sovereignty—and how you can too.

While renewing my passport, I confronted an uncomfortable truth: this little booklet represents both extraordinary privilege and a deeply unjust system. I need it to move through the world, yet every border it crosses reminds me that these lines weren't drawn by mutual agreement—they were imposed through colonial violence and maintained through power.