This website is for people interested in or committed to changing the world for the liberation of all people.
This website is called water thoughts, a fluid space, a space always changing and about to change and about change. Even if it isn't perceptible to you as the reader, it will be to me as the writer. This is a space where efforts to write will happen, through vulnerability and labor that largely is never seen except by my partner. This website is an independent publication launched in February 2025.
This is a website for experiments. One experiment is writing itself, with book recommendations and reflections from reading to rebuild language post-injury and to understand the world that I couldn't understand, and it grew from there to include trying to understand things that I'd cared about for most of my adult life, as I also returned to my radical roots. Another two experiments are hosting the Read, Seed, Water, Feed reading challenge on Storygraph and trying to support it here in ways that are possible within capacity and imagination. This page will change, as change happens within and around.
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As I wrote here in February, and this is slowly improving even as conditions in the world worsen: "I wish it were possible to write about the horrifying fascism, antiblackness, Islamophobia, ableism, transphobia, white nationalism, and more that is growing, but the words are still missing. I still don't have the words, so I will be doing what I can, from where I can, trying to write, to write again, or write finally."
For years, my own recovery from injury has been partly driven by the belief that with my experiences, I have a role to play in the struggle, and I've used this role now for years, and will continue as long as I can, in the ways that I can. As I find words and work through anxiety, I will gradually share more about myself under the tag my experiences with disability.
I am a disabled nonbinary queer person, a finder of words and language, living on Lenape land, in the belly of the beast, with my partner. I am still trying to find a name, my pronouns are they/them. I am a descendant of European settler-occupiers, and am committed to trying to dismantle a world founded on (and still deeply connected to) genocide, dispossession, enslavement, white supremacy and nationalism, and antiblackness and build the world that I feel we need.
Growing our own food and also plants that were historically indigenous to where we lived were part of my cognitive recovery, a source of healing, sustenance, and continued connection to the earth, and one of several ways I connected with mutual aid in our community.
The seeds we plant for ourselves and share with each other—plants we rarely see how they grow until we witness change in the world. I partly believe this because I know what I have done, often in community, and more recently in a different balance of community, but toward community. I would like to help people grow food, to be involved with community kitchens, to be involved with an anarchist community as I once was.
There are posts that felt like announcements when they were written or whose contents did not fit clearly in other categories. They are tagged news and show up on the home page when they are posted. This is a link to an archive of these posts, there is not a separate menu item for news.