05/05/2026
Better Late than Never—>
Your belated Full Moon Movement Ancestor for May is Rachel Carson 🌕🌿
Rachel Carson teaches us about attention to what we love love. In *Silent Spring*, she stayed with what was hard to see: the slow, accumulating violence of toxins in soil, water, bodies, and food webs. She didn’t look away. She documented. She made the trouble legible.
Donna Haraway calls us to “stay with the trouble”—not to romanticize damage, and not to surrender to despair, but to grapple with the messy truth that there are no clean or pure spaces: not on the land, not in our institutions, and not in our movements. Everything is entangled with histories of extraction, compromise, and harm.
Love for the living world includes grieving it, telling the truth about what’s been done, and still choosing to organize for repair. We live amidst constant exposure to toxic chemicals and it is only privilege that allows some people to even imagine limiting their exposure.
Under this full moon, we honor Rachel Carson by practicing the difficult work: seeing what is, mourning what’s been lost, and committing ourselves to collective, imperfect, necessary transformation.
What does “staying with the trouble” look like for you right now—on the land, in your community, in your own body?
