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Desireé B Stephens

@desireebstephens.substack.com
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🌍 Founder, Make Shi(f)t Happen (B Corp) 💡 Liberation through decolonization, healing, & intentional communities 🖋 Writer, Liberation Education on Substack ✊ Educator | Counselor | Community Builder ✨ Dismantling systems of oppression

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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 18/05/2026
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 12/05/2026
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Feral Friday with Friends. A live with LadySpeech & Desireé B Stephens.
A recording from The Gospel of LadySpeech and Desireé B Stephens's live video
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 07/05/2026
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Staying in Relationship With What Is Emerging
The Practice of Staying in the In-Between
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 04/04/2026
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The Shield and the Stool
A Story About Patriarchy
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 12/03/2026
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 10/03/2026
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What It Means to Will Another’s Existence
A reflection on love, accountability, community, and the liberation practice of letting relationships unfold.
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 16/01/2026
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Hip Hop Is Political (A Bonus Series)
Dismantling Supremacy Culture Through Sound
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 10/01/2026
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I AM RENEE GOOD...
Why #SayHerName is the antithesis to community and solidarity
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 01/01/2026
What if faith isn’t about believing harder, but about choosing who and what you refuse to abandon? Day 7: Imani Now live. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
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Imani... Faith as What We Keep Choosing
a Practice of Staying
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 27/12/2025
Self-determination isn’t just political… it’s physiological. Real community allows you to breathe, speak, and arrive without armor. #SomaticTruth #SelfDetermination #CommunityHealing #KwanzaaPrinciples #decolonizedcommunity #Kwanzaa #desireebstephens open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
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Day Two of Kwanzaa: Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)
History, context, and the embodied work of naming ourselves
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 10/12/2025
Giving wasn’t meant to deplete you. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
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7 Ways to Give: Liberation, Care, and Community Without Self-Abandonment
Because You Matter Too
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 08/12/2025
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 02/12/2025
Dormant is not dead... it’s preparation. December is the Season of Self, the month where you stop performing and finally meet the truth inside you. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
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DECEMBER EDITORIAL CALENDAR
Season of Self: Rewriting the Story of You
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 25/11/2025
The holidays are mirrors. And your body knows the truth before you do. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
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The Holidays Are Mirrors: What This Season Shows Us
Who's at your table?
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 23/11/2025
Before supremacy culture became a system, it was a survival strategy you never consented to. Today, we name each pillar as a somatic survival pattern. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
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The 15 Pillars of Supremacy Culture as Nervous System Patterning
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 22/11/2025
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Call It What It Is: Epstein, Ephebophilia, and the National Failure to Name Harm
People will do everything BUT tell the truth.
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 10/11/2025
There is a version of you that has been on guard your entire life — waiting for the tone to change, for the withdrawal, for the moment the ground shifts under your feet. desireebstephens.substack.com/p/come-insid...
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Come Inside. You’re Safe to Sit Down Here.
Season of Descent: We slow down to listen
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 03/11/2025
So proud of my kiddo
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 21/10/2025
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So You Want to Boycott Amazon — But What Does That Actually Mean?
It’s not about shipping — it’s about systems.
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Did you know that the patriarchy harms men first and white supremacy hurts white people first?? 🤯 Read or watch my conversation with @desireebstephens.substack.com to find out how! amyhoggart.substack.com/p/the-person...
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The personal politics of Desireé B Stephens, educator and counsellor
White supremacy harms white-bodied people because there is no privilege in having no community
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 18/10/2025
Before you march… read this. #nokings open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
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When Allyship Feels Like Rejection: The Lesson Before You March
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 09/10/2025
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I had such a wonderful conversation yesterday with @Desireé B Stephens whose substack is one of my must-reads. I’ll write up and post everything next week, but here’s a highlight to tide you over!
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 08/10/2025
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From Polite to Profound: How to Talk Like We Actually Want Liberation
Beyond “How Are You?”
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 05/10/2025
We’ve been taught to fear the fall. To mistake slowing down for failure. But liberation lives in the descent — in the moment we stop performing control and start practicing trust. ✨ New Lesson: Learning to Trust the Fall Read + Reflect ↓ open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
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Descent as Devotion: Reclaiming Endings as Sacred
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 04/10/2025
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“I Am Charlie Kirk”
The Ancestral Weight Behind the Rallying Cry
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 17/09/2025
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Let’s Have the Conversation
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 07/09/2025
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Go Back and Get It
Harvest, Eclipse, and the 9/9/9 Portal
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 05/09/2025
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“Separate... But Polite” The House With Two Doors
A Gilded History of White Liberalism
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 14/08/2025
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From Refusal to Reclamation: Building While the Old Falls
Let's Discuss Parallel Systems
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 14/08/2025
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Desireé B Stephens | Substack
"Guiding transformation to liberation through education, decolonization, and community building. A passionate advocate for healing and unity."
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 24/07/2025
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Yes, I’m still on holiday however this question was posed in the Make Shi(f)t Happen FB group and I thought it would be helpful “I need help with the idea of community. I think of community as somet...
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 14/06/2025
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Embodied Consent: From Control to Co-Creation
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 10/06/2025
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The Legal Framework: Laws, Policies, and the Creation of a Corporate Nation
From the Constitution to Modern Laws: How America's Legal System Cemented a Business Model of Exploitation
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 07/06/2025
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Language as a Tool of Obedience: From Home to Hustle Culture
How “Respectability” Became Supremacy in a Suit
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 10/05/2025
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I am convinced that the empire keeps us isolated and in our boxes so that we don’t see how free others are living. This weekend at FurryCon has been glorious for a few reasons. Sharing time with Er...
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 01/05/2025
May = Season of Blooming: Rooted in Resistance This month in Liberation Education: – Boundaries as bloom work – Grief & joy as sacred acts – The R.O.O.T.S. Method™ A playlist & podcast return May 19 ✨ Subscribe & bloom with us open.substack.com/pub/desireeb... #MakeShiftHappen
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Welcome to May: Season of Blooming — Rooted in Resistance
Our liberation does not rush. It roots. It resists. It reaches.
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 22/04/2025
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White People Were the Original Anchor Babies: Let’s Unpack On May 15th, Congress will hold a hearing to challenge birthright citizenship—a right rooted in the 14th Amendment, originally created to pr...
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 11/04/2025
You don’t have to be better to be worthy. You don’t have to do more to deserve more. You don’t have to shrink to belong. You’re worthy because you exist. Full stop. New article: “Self-Worth & the Right to Want More” 46% off Liberation Education thru 4/14. Join us: open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
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Self-Worth and the Right to Want More
Releasing guilt, shame, and scarcity in our desires.
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 02/04/2025
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Expanding Beyond Survival Thinking
Unlearning the mindset that tells us enough is too much
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 24/03/2025
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Segregation Was Never About Us. It Was Always About Containing You. Liberal white folks, you’re not scared of injustice—you’re scared of the consequences of proximity. And that’s okay. Sit with that....
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 23/03/2025
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Day 60 of 100 days of community
Nurturing Empathy and Vulnerability in Connection
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 14/03/2025
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So You Want to Boycott? Ireland’s Gift to Global Resistance and the Long Game of Economic Defiance Boycotts have been at the heart of resistance movements for centuries, but how many people know the...
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 06/03/2025
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The Penal Laws: How Britain Controlled Ireland Through Oppression, Division, and Fear
Irish History Through the Lens of Rebellion and Resistance
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 06/03/2025
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Who Were You Before You Were White? Before whiteness, before census boxes, before the construct of race as we know it today—who were you? This is the first question I ask white-bodied people in deco...
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 04/03/2025
We really have to do better as parents in this world. substack.com/@desireebste...
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Parenting, Fascism, and the Carceral State: It Starts at Home "Do y'all really not see the parallels between fascism and authoritarianism in parenting?" Yolanda Williams of Parenting Decolonized htt...
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 01/03/2025
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Quiet Quitting Capitalism: The Soft Strike Before the Revolution We’ve seen it in the workplace—workers refusing to overextend themselves, refusing to grind themselves into dust for jobs that will re...
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 28/02/2025
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@Jerome T. Marshall asked me an amazing question and it deserved to not be lost in the thread. Here was the question: Question: Do you lean more Marx or Contemporary Black Anarchism? This may have ...
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 15/02/2025
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How Do I Decolonize Love and Redefine It as a Liberatory Act?
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Desireé B Stephens @desireebstephens.substack.com · 14/02/2025
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The Coup Already Happened—You Just Ignored It Alfred Moore Waddell declared himself mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, marking the only successful coup d’état in U.S. history. Armed white ...
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