About Red Flag Rising & the Author

Red Flag Rising is a signal fire at the edge of empire.

This is not just a blog. A mirror. A call to look unflinchingly at the systems we have inherited, from empire, from industry, from history, and ask who they serve, and who they devour.

Here, we dig deep. Into history, mythology, politics, labor, media, and control. Into the stories we’ve been told and the ones we’ve forgotten how to tell. We trace the roots of power back to their source, not just to critique, but to remember that all systems are made. And what is made can be unmade.

You’ll find longform essays, radical reflections, cultural analysis, and fierce questions. No easy answers. No aesthetic band-aids. Just the truth as best we can uncover it, and the firelight of possibility still flickering in the dark.

This is for the ones who see the cracks.

For the ones who remember.

For the ones who aren’t afraid to imagine something better.

Red Flag Rising is not neutral.

It’s not safe.

But it is honest.

“We made this. We can unmake it. And we can build something better.”

Author, Nyt

Writer. Thinker. Watcher of patterns.

Shari is a cultural observer and lifelong student of history, power, and the human condition. She has spent decades tracing the threads of civilization, from the earliest agrarian empires to the modern scaffolding of global capital, always asking who benefits, who pays the price, and what might still be possible beyond the systems we’ve inherited.

Her work draws from a background in cultural anthropology, humanities, philosophy, nursing and lived experience. With a deep reverence for myth, memory, and truth-telling, she writes not to shock, but to illuminate. To hold up a mirror. To make visible what’s long been hidden in plain sight.

Red Flag Rising is a space for reflection, analysis, and fire. It is a witness’s voice at the edge of empire, and an invitation to dream something better forward.