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Ash Chudgar

Map of the southern half of The Stillness, the world of N.K. Jemisin’s _Broken Earth_ trilogy.

Worldbuilding for Nonprofits

When it’s your mission to solve problems that haven’t yet been solved, you have to help other people imagine a better world that doesn’t yet exist. To do that, social justice communicators can learn to use the powerful conceptual tools of science fiction and fantasy. Here’s a workshop about how.

An Indian man in his late sixties sits on a sofa in jeans and a dress shirt, cuddled up next to a white-and-gray cat.

Rice and khadi

My father Ashvin had this comforting soup-type thing for lunch at least once a week when I was growing up. It came up in a course I’m taking about partswork and ancestry, and one of my fellow students asked for the recipe. Here is how I make it, based on my recollection.

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Beyond IFS: Inner Work that Works for Plural Systems

At this year’s Plural Positivity World Conference, we offered a Plural take on Internal Family Systems model — what it says, what it doesn’t say, how it fails Plural systems, and how we can adapt it to work better. Resources from that workshop are all here.

One of a crowd of demonstrators holds up the blue Minnesota flag, which snaps in the wind against the blue sky.

#NoKingsDay in Minnesota

On President’s Day 2025, it was -10°F and windy at the state capitol in Saint Paul. Hundreds and hundreds of Minnesotans came out to protest the fascist takeover of our national government. Our rage and solidarity kept us warm. Here are a few photos from the day.

An orange cat walks past a small translucent statue of Green Tara, the goddess of compassion.

A brief story for times when you are shattered by ongoing suffering

Many people I know are feeling overwhelmed by the intensifying harm the new American government is inflicting on people here and around the world. The vastness of the suffering, now and to come, is shattering. If you are feeling overwhelmed by it, this brief story might comfort and sustain you.

A photo collage of the silhouette of Minnesota against a frost crystals on a window.

The future of IFS in Minnesota: Ideas and an invitation

On Sunday, January 12, our colleagues Makai Dorfman and Zayla Asquith-Heinz gathered 18 other local IFS practitioners in South Minneapolis to talk and think together about our future as a community. This is a report about it was like, the ideas we dreamt up for our future, and an invitation for you.

A little orange cat ponders the cover of Judith Herman’s book Trauma and Recovery

The wisdom of Trauma and Recovery

I read a lot of psychoanalytic writing about suffering in college and grad school, even took a course on trauma theory. But it wasn’t until a few years ago that I encountered the most important modern work on the subject. Here are some of my favorite passages from Judith Herman’s masterpiece.