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“There is no chance that we will fall apart”
It’s extremely challenging to think that I am of a whole with, say the Arkansas parents who find my and other queer and BIPOC women’s poems obscene and…
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Tamiko Beyer
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Becoming Kin
What I learned in loving and caring for Barley | The day Barley died, the crows were everywhere. Some hours after the kind and gentle vet came to help…
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Tamiko Beyer
This is for you
The gift economy prioritizes the richness of relationships over material wealth. It opens up possibilities for reciprocity and cooperation, and stands…
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Tamiko Beyer
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"You are who I love"
You typing feverishly into the night, writing to the world the only thing to say: we are human, we are human, we are of the land, we are salt and sand…
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Tamiko Beyer
Play as acts of anti-capitalism and anti-racism
This is my younger brother and me. That grin, that wink: joyful expressions of our small bodies hurtling through the streets of our Tokyo neighborhood.
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Tamiko Beyer
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An ending is a beginning is an ending is a beginning
All things come to completion. Completion is not the same as perfection. The World card makes space for mistakes, flaws, contradictions, difficulties. I…
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Beauty is not a luxury   
A praise song
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Tamiko Beyer
How to find our way back to community
We turn to scrolling or streaming to numb out. Too many of us in our own little spaces, spinning in misery, unable to connect.
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Tamiko Beyer
The answer in the margins
Some thoughts on queer kinship and how it might save us
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Tamiko Beyer
“The dark, too, blooms and sings”
Over the course of that long winter, I learned that I could navigate the dark though my peripheral vision, my muscle memory, my ears.
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Tamiko Beyer
When the portal opens
Inside all of the pain and suffering that these times bring, I believe there are possibilities. Openings for change to take hold. For the ideas, dreams…
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Tamiko Beyer
Resting inside daily life
Inside capitalism, even the pursuit of rest is a thing I can fail at and feel inadequate about.
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Tamiko Beyer
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