About Soulful Resistance

Personal and political, the weekly essays in this newsletter ponder living well and resisting well at once. There is no separation between the two. If there were a central thesis to Soulful Resistance, it would be that there are no capital R revolutionaries, no heroes—only imperfect people building a still imperfect but better future together.

While I do consider myself an anarchist in that I believe in horizontal organization and the abolition of states, I’m not married to any ideology. In my essays, I bring insights from critical theory, indigenous worldviews, deep ecology, psychology, and literature. I ask a lot of questions. In my attempt to answer them, I write.

About me, Maria

When I’m not writing this newsletter, I’m collecting a manuscript of poetry, providing mental health care for activists and youth, and organizing a collective library, among other things. My background is in environmental studies (University of Sydney, 2023). In 2024, I completed a PocketMFA in Poetry with Grant Chemidlin as my mentor. You can find my published works here or learn more about my counseling practice here.

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In solidarity, always.