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graphic design featuring cards from Esoteric Esa's 'Malas Palabras' affirmation deck.

Leading Latina astrologist Jasmin Alejandrez-Prasad, better known as Esoteric Esa, is dropping a new affirmation deck, and her efforts to decolonize brujería are more focused than ever. The goal of the “Malas Palabras” affirmation deck is to empower Latinas to embrace taboo thoughts and all those “bad words” that we’re discouraged from saying or have been downright shamed for speaking.

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Graphic design featuring an image of Maria Sabina

Maria Sabina Magdalena García, a native Mazatec healer and shaman from Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca, Mexico, was a remarkable woman whose life and teachings left an indelible mark on the Western world. Her practices centered on the use of Psilocybin mushrooms, a genus of psychedelic mushrooms, for spiritual and healing rituals, which have had a profound influence on the modern study and perception of psychedelic substances in Western medicine and culture.

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A man feeling overwhelmed and hesitant to tackle household chores.

In the world of work and domestic chores, a term has been gaining popularity - “weaponized incompetence” But what exactly does it mean, and why is it crucial to understand and identify this phenomenon? Let's break it down.

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