Category: black lives matter

• Carl & Other Thoughts On BIPOC LGBTQIA Liberation

  It took Carl guts to publicly announce his sexuality. But at the end of the day Carl Nissab can physically, financially, take care of himself. He has the support of the NFL. There’s Democrats in office and most of all he can be a Pride month show horse for convenient capitalism. The NFL is also banking on White Privilege to support Carl’s homosexuality. Someone had to do it eventually. But what if a Black or Latinx player wanted to come out? There’s a lot of cultural and political reasons why that probably wouldn’t happen. How would that have played out on the home field?

  Joshua Khatena

  June 22, 2021

  BIPOC, black lives matter, Blm, carl nassib, Coming Out, Gay, Gay Rights, Mental Health, nfl, Queer, Social Justice, transformation, writer

  black lives matter, Blm, carl nassib, Coming Out, Gay, Gay Rights, LGBTQ, nfl

• Setting the Record Strait Part 2

  I was at Mt. Shasta writing about one of the most surreally difficult nights of my life, right before another strange event occurred on this mountain. Truth can be a stranger dance than any of our fictions. You see, I slipped through the trapdoor of my mind after a BLM celebration, on the night of […]

  Joshua Khatena

  April 9, 2021

  Adventurer, black lives matter, california, Consciousness, Existentialism, Gay, growth, Healing, hope, Mental Health, mount shasta, Mountain, Nature, Path, Philosophy, Photography, quarantine, Questioning, self-care, Social Justice, soul, the Universe, transformation, wanderlust, writer

  Author, Bipolar, Blm, blogger, Consciousness, doubt, empowered, Gay, hiking, hope, life, mount shasta, mountains, mystic, purpose, quarantine, searching, Social change, Social Justice, transformation, Travel, Universe

• Rider of Days (Part 1)

  

  This year has led us down the path to becoming unconditional. To acceptance of life’s continual uncertainties. It’s the surest voyage to setting yourself free. We are all riders on different courses of a mortal journey. This Universe resides nowhere and all at once, forever in the process of becoming. Maybe it takes the pulling away of the light for leaves & light to matter. There’s no map, no brave stars to tell us the way to go. Would we listen if there were?

  Joshua Khatena

  November 24, 2020

  beginning, black lives matter, Canon Photography, Consciousness, Empowerment, Existentialism, forgiveness, ocean, Oregon, Photography, Social Justice, thankfulness, thanksgiving, Unconditional, wanderlust, writer

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• Let Freedom Ring!

  Some men are of the opinion that God gave them Earth to rule as their dominion. Beasts to subdue Manifest lands to ravage Peace was slaughtered Its Peoples were called Savage. Modern generations birthed beneath fluorescent glows God became irrelevant when man learned fire all his own. But I’ve always felt more akin to Icarus […]

  Joshua Khatena

  July 4, 2020

  America, black lives matter, Empowerment, july 4th, justice, Poetry, revolution, Social Justice, writer

• Let Freedom Ring 07/04/20

  

  Some men are of the opinion that God gave them Earth to rule as their dominion. Beasts to subdue Manifest lands to ravage Peace was slaughtered Its Peoples were called Savage. Modern generations birthed beneath fluorescent glows God became irrelevant when man learned fire all his own. But I’ve always felt more akin to Icarus […]

  Joshua Khatena

  July 4, 2020

  America, black lives matter, Consciousness, forgiveness, Freedom, july 4th, justice, Live, oppression, Poem, Poetry, Social Justice, soul, writer

  America, black lives matter, Blm, Blog, empower, forgiveness, Freedom, hope, Human rights, independence, justice, Oneness, Poem, poet, Poetry, Social change, Social Justice

• The Protest Manifestos: Excerpts (Volume 1)

  

  For we lie with primordial oppressors pressing up and against each other. An eternal cycle of validation and degradation. Creation, present being, and destruction. Every action is in effort to achieve a goal. The Earth’s plates rubbed against each other and created mountains. Seas were parted in the birthing of Volcanoes. Nations rise in valorous […]

  Joshua Khatena

  June 28, 2020

  black lives matter, Change, Consciousness, earth, Empowerment, Existentialism, forgiveness, justice, Mountain, Nature, writer

  America, black lives matter, Blog, Consciousness, earth, empowered, Freedom, life, love, Nature, Photography, Social Justice, strength, Truth, unity