Prayer for An Evil Eye

Written By Pink Flowers

Somebody out there is throwing bad mojo, y’all — for realz!

Welcome to the world of magick. Just when I think the rest of my life is gonna be one amazing event after another, the dark side of magick rears its nasty ass. I got a message from a witch I know that somebody was hurling some dark arts in my direction. I’m not stupid enough to ignore the caution, but I also know my mother is one of my guardian angels and she ain’t no joke. I kind of feel sorry for the person, ‘cause my mother is basically Kāli, the Destroyer.

I don’t want to make light of it, dough. It’s fucked up. Even the world of magick got trolls. It’s like when I started blowing up on YouTube and suddenly started getting death threats and shit. I’d tell y’all to check the comments on my spoof video “Black People are Stupid,” but I don’t want to trigger nobody. Racists be clicking in to see Black people torn down, and then they get they hearts broke when I one eighty on them bitches and ask them to interrogate they own racism. Haters gotta hate.

Now, I’m gonna do what I gotta do. This is my curse for whoever it is out there trying to harm me and mine:

I see you.

I feel you.

I hear you.

I know you’re alone and likely in pain. You feel you’ve been slighted by the world. You feel you haven’t been given your fair share. I see you in shadow. I feel your heart like a knot in your chest. I hear you crying.

I absolve you of any wrong you’ve wished on me. No harm. No foul. Let flowers sprout in the dirt that’s fallen by the wayside.

I embrace you and surround you in the loving and unconditional light of the spirit of all my ancestors. Be free of the darkness that has all but swallowed you. Fill your heart with healing light and joy. Bask in the warmth of self-satisfaction. Your benevolent desires come to you. Be released from dark thoughts that plague you. Commitments to ill will drain from you and leave you cleansed and renewed.

Go in peace.

Pink Flowers

Pink Flowers is a Black trans artist, peacemaker, educator, and pleasure activist whose work lives at the intersection of embodiment, governance, and cultural transformation. Trained in Theater of the Oppressed, Art of Hosting, and Navajo-informed Peacemaking practices, Pink designs spaces where conflict can be addressed, power can be examined, and joy can be reclaimed.

Her artistic and pedagogical practice draws from African trickster cosmology, Brazilian Joker traditions, shamanic ritual, and cooperative economics. She is the founder of the award-winning Falconworks Theater Company (2005–2021), which used popular theater to build civic capacity and participatory leadership in historically marginalized communities.

Pink served for over five years as a trained Peacemaker in the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, facilitating restorative processes within the New York City court system. From 2015–2018, she worked in cooperative business development with the Center for Family Life, supporting worker-owned enterprises in immigrant communities.

She currently serves as Director of Education and Training for the Inter-Cooperative Council in Ann Arbor, where she leads leadership development and conflict engagement initiatives. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, including at the Stretch Festival in Berlin and the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference.

Across ritual, performance, mediation, and institutional design, Pink’s work asks a central question:

What becomes possible when we refuse shame and choose conscious power instead?

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