CREATIVITY MANIFESTO

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I Create in the Face of F**k

CREATIVITY MANIFESTO | by. Kadie Kelly

This is a dispatch from the front of my own reckoning

with the world, and with myself.
In times like these, our creativity is not a luxury.

It’s a lifeline. A manifesto. A refusal.

I create because I must.
Because silence is not an option.

Because the world would have me shrink, and I refuse.

I create in the face of f**k.

F**k that would have me disappear. F**k that tells me I’m too much,

too tender,

too wild,

too inconvenient.

I take that f**k and shape it

spill it into pages,

pour it into piano keys,

let it ink the walls

of my imagination.

I create in the face of fascism.

In the face of fear.

And yes, in the face of “femininity” too,

the kind that’s been flattened, prettified, politicized.

I create not because it makes sense.

Not because it’s marketable.
But because it unbinds something.

Because I have to.

I create because I’m not done.
I’m not done feeling.
I’m not done changing.

I’m not done naming what’s been taken.

I find my feral-ism, my feminism, my inner fire,

in every act of making.

Sometimes, it sounds like a scream. Sometimes, like a lullaby.
Sometimes, like a whisper that outlasts the storm.

F**k-this-ism is alive in me.

If you’re creating through the chaos,
if you’re naming what hurts,
if you’re building a world inside your own

I see you.

Reply, share, forward this to someone else at the edge of their own fireline.

We are not alone in this.

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Here are the lyrics to the chant in case

you want to learn it and chant to break through

any self-doubt in your own creative power:

I create
in the face of f**k
fascism
fear.

And I find
my feral-ism,
Feminism!
and inner fire
in every act
of creation!

More dispatches to come. Stay with me.
—Kadie xo

Inspired by Lydia Yuknavich’s invitation to write in the face of f**k