Jaelin S.

06/05/2025

I realized every story I have ever written to completion had some underlying truth to it. It took me 10 years to realize that

08/02/2025

Love
“I am who I am because somebody love me so deep”- Dr. Cornell West
Sitting in that lecture felt like I was actually in a sermon rather than a discussion on freedom of speech. Yet, the “thesis” of his thing or what resonated with me was Love. This universal feeling, felt so deeply by others according to Dr. West is such a central theme to everything we discussed. Love became the verb that flowed into topics like freedom of expression and using your voice instead of being an echo. Dr. West praxis is centered on that Christian love, the same love that was in conversation with Dr. Martin Luther King, and his own parents.
I’m writing about this because it reminds me of my own educational journey. Growing up my mom “did not play” about my learning. She hustled along with my father to give me the best that they never had: a loving two parent household, overbearing, and somewhat annoying, safe schooling, and material needs. Dr. West called himself if memory serves me “broken loved filled vessel” and honestly I relate to that. I started my masters on the heels of grief. My half-brother died, I sat in my bed realizing I didn’t want to waste my life. Grief is merely the absence of love, a phantom in the shape of that person or place. So in that memory of those who died I carried on. I’m now sitting on my last semester and the world is much different than two and half years ago. Love let me find my voice, and take my fate into my own hands. There’s something radical in stating that I am somebody worth loving if not myself. Especially in a world that teaches us to hate. Hating ourselves and lashing out at others different from us.
I’m still thinking about what Dr. West has said, even if I didn’t understand it, it made me think nonetheless.

03/02/2025

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/is-somebody-doing-something?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Yes. Let me break it down for you.

16/11/2024

The dream
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I stood amongst the people in cages
Bullet cases scattered among the places of sand and sun.
An old man looked at me a broom and pan on hand
He asked me a question to gauge my intention
Will you clean ?
The scene transformed from a desert storm to a party
Bullets transformed to popcorn ,
But yes I began to sweep.
I don’t know what this dream means.

09/11/2024

Hope begins in all places
In the dark
Under ground
Germinating
Hope is the
Enduring seed
That survives the harshest climates
Biding , gathering resources
Blooming after time has passed.
Hope is the seed that where scattered into the ground
They say “they tried to bury us but we where actual seeds”
Hope is the ever enduring w**d.
No matter what you do in your manicured lawns
Hope is there staring in defiance.
A revolutionary act that gives us a garden to dream.
Why else a facist try and crush it
For if hope is still there, then dreams will follow,
For if hope is still there then they cannot break us.
One of the greatest acts you can do is still continue to find hope, to build a community of hope so that when the ashes settle
And the liars are drawn
Hope still stands
Facing towards dawn

14/07/2024

Gentle reminder, vote. If you hate both parties thats fine. But I cannot stress this enough, your vote can help marginalized voices. You vote can help with bodily autonomy, your vote can help protect our rights.
Please I am begging you to vote because your life, your kids lives, innocent lives actually depend on it. Project 2k25 affects all of us.

11/05/2024

I think about those who left us,
To make way for Father Time
And Mother Earth
To light our paths as we walk above the dirt
I think about this brilliant stars twinkling so faintly in the night sky
Dancing sending us their light
I think about the children who come before us
I think about you
I think about us
I think about and think about and grief comes in goes.
Today grief is here to remind me of the ones I still love.
It’s weight upon my chest bearing itself and making it known;
And then I think about myself.

05/05/2024

A thought I would like to share.
A movement fails when the individual interpretation of a concept an idea supersedes the movement as a whole. When an individual own ego takes in the forefront to the point that it causes division among your friends and ally’s , that’s when your movement fails. You cannot spear head your interpitation, you risk ignoring the nuance that your identity encompasses. Why BLM lost its power and why other protests will follow. If you want advocacy and for people to take up your banner you gotta understand that it’s beyond you. You forget that other people share the same identity as you and have to navigate those same beliefs. The knight on the white horse is a symbol. Your allies are the people beside you and behind you.

30/03/2024

Something something getting back to doing art again because I’m trying to use all my skills to lean in a direction I wanna go to

13/03/2024

TikTok being banned but you won’t call for a cease fire in Gaza because of oil.
TikTok being banned but there’s a housing crisis
TikTok being banned but you’re removing covid restrictions and forcing sick people back to work
TikTok being banned and Trans people are being treated like second class citizens
TikTok being banned but people can’t have a live able wage
TikTok being banned but cops are killing black and brown people without any impunity
TikTok being banned but you got N***s, TERFs, and force birthers running around on Facebook and twitter running amok
TikTok being banned but we have sh*tty education and healthcare system exasperated by a pandemic you’re choosing to ignore and down play because guess what the CDC says it’s not as bad yet people are dying.
TikTok being banned but apparently we can’t even have a union, labor rights protected , or codified
Of all the things you could do, with all that power and y’all focus on TikTok because it’s a “foreign entity which sells information “ like any other website does.

27/12/2023

Not me getting an A- on the paper to at I was sweating and crying about for three weeks 👀👀👀