Manifesto Destiny: Alternatives to Growth at All Costs

in late July, I had the pleasure of reading with Saira Kahn’s Literary Nights at the Issaquah Historic Train depot. we were reading from Adelaide Blair’s 2026 book project, Manifesto Destiny. it was a special group of artists/writers—Pidge Pasqualle, Kelly June Mitchell, Gabriela Denise Frank, Cam Smith, Adelaide Blair, and Andrea Lewicki. I read my ‘asymmetric empathy anti-derangement manifesto’—”avoid the spin, empathy warriors.”