Michaela McCormick

Michaela McCormick is a white-bodied transgender activist currently working with Extinction Rebellion, and a Buddhist student/teacher drawing from many wisdom traditions. Her political/liberatory work includes teaching and organizing for the transformation of white supremacist, colonialist, patriarchal, earth-spoiling capitalism into just, compassionate, regenerative systems and relationships. For 25 years she worked as a teacher, trainer, and practitioner of conflict resolution and public dialogue. She has written two memoirs and now writes poetry and essays on social and spiritual themes.

We Rise Together

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by Michaela McCormick While data centers, spaceships, missiles, and brutal policing gobble up precious dollars driving us toward destruction, those of us at ground and eye level grow food forests, stand by immigrants, run health … Read more

Hubris Defanged 

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A tiny iridescent fly  lands before me  on the green waxy leaf  of my Mexican Orange shrub.  Does she sense the chaos and poison  of the human sullied world?  Does the hearty Mexican Orange?  We are all subject to   … Read more

Turn to Humility

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I am nature, just as much as the spider living on my back window, as much as the juncos who forage on my stone patio, as much as the young cherry tree fronting our common … Read more

Laughing Matters

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These times bring treachery that those of us privileged to bobble above earlier threats have reason to fear. Fire burns and swelling rivers flood our homes. We are dismissed from secure jobs. We gasp at the price of eggs, and forego out-of-reach … Read more

Healing Toward Justice

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Healing ourselves and our communities from centuries of war, slavery, oppression, exploitation, greed, and abuse of our Earth is as much cultural and spiritual as it is economic and political.  It is personal and collective.  … Read more

Reckless Human Mastery

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Photo Credit: Ivan Radic We human beings are animals, like millions of other species who move about the earth, communicate vocally and visually, gather, harvest, and/or hunt other species for food, and manipulate pieces of … Read more