Liberation Meditation

Early Words Liberation Meditation is Claudia Alick’s daily practice of journaling, reflection, and collective political education. Each morning begins on EarlyWords.io, a community-built journaling platform, followed by a live or private meditation on liberation, justice, grief, joy, disability, technology, and the state of the world.

Sometimes the practice appears as a livestream (often as a talking moon in the sky), sometimes it unfolds quietly offline, but always it is grounded in disability justice, critical inquiry, and the belief that everyday meaning-making is power.

Across the years, the meditations have covered:

  • Media literacy and manufactured consent
  • Disability justice and labor
  • Racial justice and abolition
  • Artificial intelligence, surveillance, and tech sovereignty
  • Grief, ecology, climate, and collective care
  • Narrative power, language, and resistance
  • Joy, imagination, and long-term movement visioning

Early Words Liberation Meditation is a sustained record of resistance and reflection—an evolving public/ private practice that documents what it means to stay human, awake, and connected in a time of profound change.

Browse annual summaries of each year’s themes, patterns, and growth: Access links to readings!

Join us by journaling on EarlyWords.io, reflecting with us in community spaces, or exploring past meditations to spark your own liberation practice.

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