Writing as Refusal, Writing as Compost, Writing as Spark

The next round of Write Against/Beyond Empire is next Wednesday, April 1.

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 earth, body, and heart—not to perform despair or draft polite appeals to power, but to metabolize what is happening and to let our language become tools/toys of orientation, refusal, and possibility.

Through short somatic grounding, guided prompts, and collective weaving, we’ll practice writing that refuses the state’s gaslighting, that can hold heat without burning us out, and that nourishes imagination that reaches beyond Empire’s nightmares.

No prior writing experience needed—Come as you are; bring your facorite pen, your body, your truths and confusions, and whatever words are ready to arrive.

This is a temporary altar for words that want to live beyond Empire’s poverty of imagination.

If this feels like something you’ve been carrying without language or movement, you’re welcome to come surface words and sparks with us.

Register Here or Venmo: RyanVanLenning with a note “Write Against Empire” and an email for zoom link.

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” —Arundhati Roy