Richard Silvia/The Rick Eva Music Project

Richard Silvia is a writer and creator of YesRising, a project for people who feel out of place but refuse to give up. He writes essays, poetry, and music (The Rick Eva Music Project) about culture, politics, and staying human. The YesRising Manifesto YesRising exists for those who have never quite fit
 and refused to disappear because of it. We are the ones who noticed something was wrong 
and didn’t learn how to look away. We are not optimistic because the world is easy.
 We are hopeful because giving up our humanity
 would be the final loss. YesRising is for the weird ones.
 The sensitive ones.
 The people who feel deeply in a culture that rewards numbness.
 Those who have been told they are “too much”
 when the truth is the world has become too little.

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