Stanhope didn’t just climb rocks, he also climbed the rape culture pyramid all the way to the top being charged by the government of British Columbia with sexual assault.

Sasha Digiulian is a glaring example of white feminism. By critically examining this connection, celebrity culture, and ongoing global injustices, this piece challenges readers to rethink what real progress looks like in the fight for liberation. True change requires more than just "a seat at the table."

Winona LaDuke points out that imperialist-white supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy (as bell hooks called it) conditions white people to feel powerless. It's time we reclaim our agency and power and shape the world we want to live in.

My first trail run after COVID had me thinking about medical apartheid, environmental racism, Lesbian Lore rabbit holes, celebrity culture and the false belief that representation will save us, how too many of us queer white women are Taylor Swifting our art and content, and why any conversation about gender and sexuality needs to include an analysis of the impacts of whiteness and ongoing colonization.

The King of Cups is a parent holding our emotions. This seems to speak to the ways in which we all have the capacity to re-parent ourselves, so that we may be able to hold space for not only our emotions and experiences in the ways we might have missed out on as children of emotionally immature adults (which is, I assume, most of us), but also so that we can be a holder for others’ emotions and experiences as well. Sometimes we’re called to be the container and sometimes we need others’ to contain or hold us, not in a controlling way, but in a gentle, open, cupped hands kind of way.

Last night, Chiron and the North Node came together in a conjunction. In astrology, Chiron is an asteroid known as “the wounded healer.” Transiting Chiron shows us where and what we’re ready to heal. But we also all have Chiron in our natal birth chart, which shows us what we’re perennially working on to heal. It’s a wound that we can learn to work with and tend to our whole life, so that we’re not defined by that wound or hurt. It’s a placement in our chart that allows us to be simultaneously apprentice *and* teacher and share what we’ve learned from our healing journey with others.