“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.
On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” – Arundhati Roy
“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist
is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”—Murray Bookchin
This is a gathering for people carrying grief, rage, confusion, clarity, and imagination in a time of imperial violence, lies, and psychic exhaustion. Together we’ll write from the body and heart—not to perform despair, aestheticize suffering, or draft polite appeals to power, but to metabolize what is happening and let language become a tool of orientation, refusal, and possibility.
Through short somatic grounding, guided prompts, and collective weaving, we’ll practice writing that can hold heat without burning us out, and imagination that reaches beyond the Empire’s nightmares.
No prior writing experience needed—Come as you are. Bring a pen, your body, your truths and confusions, and whatever words are ready to arrive. This is not a grief council (though we will touch into grief/rage), a workshop on “craft,” or a call to productivity. It’s a temporary hearth for words that want to live beyond Empire’s poverty of imagination.
DATE: Wednesday, March 11
TIME: 5:30-7:00 PM PST
Online | Sliding scale $20-40
(Note: Limited to 10 to invite safety and intimacy. Our time together may go to two hours.)
If this feels like something you’vebeen carrying without language or movement, you’re welcome to come surface words and sparks with us.
Register here via PayPal/Credit Card or VENMO: RyanVanLenning with the note “Write Against Empire” for program info and link.