a new #crushlife on valentine's day
a chorus of one is featured in the crush life manifesto: mossy space.
Hi beloveds, ¡feliz día del amor y la amistad! There is nothing quite like having a new #crushlife on Valentine’s Day, and I am here to bless you with the gift of new relationship energy without the come down.
A chorus of one is featured in the Crush Life Manifesto: Mossy Space, a publication by Danielle Coates-Connor, a creative director, storyteller, and strategist whose work centers on cultivating authentic voice by stripping away conditioning, uncovering truth and desire, and practicing bravery. For the last decade, I have had the privilege of calling Danielle my best friend and collaborator.
So, what is the Crush Life Manifesto?
“Crush Life Manifesto: Mossy Space is a lush, full-color, small-batch publication exploring intimacy, sexuality, and social change. This edition moves through erotic awakening and attachment, sex work and consent, queer lineage and family, grief and humor, generational trauma and cultural memory, collective care, practices for arousal and discernment, and visions for how we survive and create together in collapse.
A call for erotic courage, a field guide to low-arousal connection, an artifact of collective imagination. This is where people bring the ideas they are told not to say out loud. Crush Life is the audacity to be turned on. It is for us. Everybody who wants it and needs it. Lay down in the arms of muse. Crush Life is refuge and revolt.”
Refuge and revolt are right. For me, #crushlife has been a soft place to land, a laboratory for my ideas, a practicum for the new world. The Crush Life Manifesto—in proposing an alternative set of relationship norms—is calling us into the possibility offered by the erotic and the exploration of what happens when we say ‘yes’ to that invitation. Whether it’s exploring Korean historical grief by way of Kpop Demon Hunters, or uncling as available revolution, CLM pulls you into the worlds we’re navigating and creating. It is a blessing and an honor to be featured alongside such brilliant contributors.
If you’re curious about what #crushlife looks like at the level of society, want to read more about what happens when you dare to be turned on, or if you just want to learn from Danielle and other brilliant disruptors like Lama Rod Owens, Beya Jiménez, and Ámate Cecilia Pérez, purchase the Crush Life Manifesto here.
It is my deep, anchoring belief that we have a responsibility to come into right relationship with our bodies, each other, and the planet, by getting in touch with the creative, erotic energy that makes everything possible.
New worlds are emerging from all that’s collapsing. The Crush Life Manifesto is a repository of these new beginnings.
