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Drake Logan

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November 12, 1983 - September 19, 2020

Nov 12, 1983 - Sep 19, 2020

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Leanna Heffner

Upon receiving his Ph.D., and in the ways that Drake loved multiplicity, I decided to give him a custom made diploma as part of his graduation present. I made sure to include as many curse words as possible, in the way that he loved to be subversive with language (and all things).

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Amber Field

Kathleen Ramsey

Leanna Heffner

A painting by Drake... he was so damn talented in so many ways <3 <3 <3

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Amber Field

Kathleen Ramsey

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Allison Walton

How did Drake die? How did Drake die? How did Drake die?

Jim Albertini

Aloha to Drake's family and friends, I seemed to have gotten the memorial service time wrong. I had thought it was 1PM Hawaii time. I am sorry to have missed the memorial. My deepest sympathy to Drake's family and friends. Drake has given much for a better world and we in Hawaii have been blessed by his dedication and work. He will be in our hearts always filled with aloha and a passion for peace, justice and a better world. Solidarity. Jim Albertini

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Kathleen Ramsey

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Leanna Heffner

Jim, I hope this puts your mind at ease, that the memorial was recorded and will be posted soon on this website,... Read more Jim, I hope this puts your mind at ease, that the memorial was recorded and will be posted soon on this website, so you will still... Read more Jim, I hope this puts your mind at ease, that the memorial... Read more

Leanna Heffner

(see the link below that Elizabeth Scotten posted for the recording of the memorial) (see the link below that Elizabeth Scotten posted for the recording of the memorial) (see the link below that Elizabeth Scotten posted for... Read more

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Elizabeth Scotten

Thank you all for a beautiful memorial service today. Here is a link to a recording of the service.

View a recording of the memorial service here:
https://juliamorganschool-org…

Passcode: =pqxf$T3

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Jennifer Chenault

Elliot Kukla

2017, Pāhoa, HI, USA

Drake and elliot in the flowers

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Nancy Logan

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Jennifer Chenault

Rabbi Elliot, I am so grateful to you for offering such a perfect memorial for my brother. You and Jolee ... Read more Rabbi Elliot, I am so grateful to you for offering such a perfect memorial for my brother. You and Jolee and all the others that... Read more Rabbi Elliot, I am so grateful to you for offering ... Read more

Nancy Logan

Rabbi Elliot, as you know, I feel exactly the same way as Jen. The memorial that you led was rich in tenderness... Read more Rabbi Elliot, as you know, I feel exactly the same way as Jen. The memorial that you led was rich in tenderness and love all ... Read more Rabbi Elliot, as you know, I feel exactly the same ... Read more

Elliot Kukla

Thank you Jen and Nancy. So glad I was able to be there with you and help honor Drake. Thank you Jen and Nancy. So glad I was able to be there with you and help honor Drake. Thank you Jen and Nancy. So glad I was able to be there... Read more

Elliot Kukla

2017, Pāhoa, HI, USA

Drake and Elliot in Puna

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Nancy Logan

Jennifer Chenault

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Nancy Logan

What a fine photo of you two! What a fine photo of you two! What a fine photo of you two!

Nicole Goodwin

I prepared a project for class in honor of Drake's life and passing. This is an excerpt of the larger project Inner Spaces: The Drake Sessions.

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Jeremy Berggren

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Leanna Heffner

Thank you for this Nicole, it touched me deeply... and please keep bringing your art and your voice to the... Read more Thank you for this Nicole, it touched me deeply... and please keep bringing your art and your voice to the world. <3 Thank you for this Nicole, it touched me deeply... ... Read more

Romie Nottage

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Michelle Evans

I was deeply saddened to hear the news of Drake passing. I had the pleasure to work with Drake on an academic paper looking at Indigenous political participation with colleagues in Taiwan, the US and me here in Australia. Such a passionate and strong person. My condolences to Drake’s family, friends and colleagues across the world. Michelle Evans

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Elliot Kukla

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Jolee Boyd

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Jennifer Chenault

Elizabeth Scotten

Nancy Logan

Elliott Bass

golden

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golden

I had the pleasure of meeting Drake through Barclay, who always spoke so lovingly of her best friend long before we ever met. Through many stories of their adventures, I learned of his resilience, humor, commitment to justice, and loyalty. It is one thing to hear about these qualities, but when I finally met Drake, I saw them for myself and understood right away why Barclay loved this person so much. Drake's honesty and warmth put me at ease from the start and while my heart really hurts to know he is gone, I am so deeply thankful for his presence, his work, and that I got to know him as much as I did. I will always remember you, Drake.

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Jennifer Chenault

Nancy Logan

golden

2019

miss you, Drake.

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Jennifer Chenault

Nancy Logan

Barclay Stone

2019

Here is a link to one of Drake's scholarly articles "Toxic violence: The politics of militarized toxicity in Iraq and Afghanistan," published in a peer-reviewed journal in January 2019:
https://journals.sagepub.com/…

he would want this work to be remembered--both as an important part of who he was, and as a way to keep the work alive....

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Jennifer Chenault

Nancy Logan

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Maggie Martin

Thanks for this reminder and the call to share Drake's work. Just the abstract naming toxic violence is an... Read more Thanks for this reminder and the call to share Drake's work. Just the abstract naming toxic violence is an important reminder ... Read more Thanks for this reminder and the call to share Drake's... Read more

Aiko Yamashiro

2018, Hawaiʻi

Drake visited Hawaiʻi and jumped humbly into social justice work, including standing in support of demilitarization of Hawaiʻi land and waters at this annual poetry and music event. Aloha nui.

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Nancy Logan

Joyce Wagner

I have been struggling to find words as I have been processing all of this. I am struggling at times to accept that Drake is not here, and my heart hurts.

When I first joined IVAW, I often struggled to feel like I was really “part” of the group; I often felt as if “my” issues as a female and non-binary veteran were unseen and unheard and unimportant. That my identity and my history were not understood, acknowledged, or valued.

Although Drake was not a military veteran, his presence, along with some other like-minded members of civ-sol, was what finally made me feel like I belonged. There were so many things I did not have to explain, including my gender identity. I could be myself and grow. He helped me grow so much. He was someone I could always count on for help with writing, public speaking, or probably literally anything I needed support with. I knew I would receive honest feedback without ever feeling criticized. He held my experiences and truly felt and understood it all.

I was honored when he called me and asked me to work with him earlier this year. I was so inspired by what he was doing with MTP. I was so inspired by his commitment to continue the hard work that was started so long ago. The work model that he developed with myself and with Qibei and with Dawn was so fantastic and forward thinking. I found myself thinking “wow, yes! This is the kind of supportive work environment I have heard lip service about for years. And here is Drake, actually doing it. And it’s effective and wonderful and should be the new norm.”

I feel like there are so many more conversations that we didn’t get to have. So many great plans for the future. So much conspiring for a better world.

I wonder if he knew that he deserved all the same love and support that he gave.

Drake, I will always accept you and whatever choices you make about the direction of your life, and where you want to be in the universe. I know that there’s nothing I could have said to have changed the course of events but one regret I have is that I did not get to hug you one last time.

I promise to do what I can to continue the work however I can. To learn from your lessons. And honor your memory. Thank you for everything you have given me. I can’t express how much I miss you.

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Clare Bayard

Nancy Logan

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Siri Margerin

This. Thank you Joyce. This. Thank you Joyce. This. Thank you Joyce.

Leanna Heffner

Joyce, I heard so much from Drake about your amazing team and the process of co-creating the non-profit together,... Read more Joyce, I heard so much from Drake about your amazing team and the process of co-creating the non-profit together, including your... Read more Joyce, I heard so much from Drake about your amazing... Read more

Jennifer Chenault

2020, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Though I am 15 years older than Drake, I learned so much from my brother. Not only about the things he held as truth; that the U.S. military doesn’t protect native lands from poisons that come from their testing of bombs, live-fire artillery and superfund toxins but also how climate change and greedy corporations threaten the health of native people and indeed, all of us. Drake also shared eye-opening ideas with me about the way we think about ourselves and how we project that view to others. How the way we see ourselves should be the way society sees us and validates our existence. Drake and I didn’t grow up together as I was placed for adoption but his compassion , empathy and love supported me through many painful times in my life. He always listened, made sure he understood exactly what I was experiencing and then poured his love and acceptance over my heart. On a lighter note, Drake and I laughed and giggled at the same things and I will miss that twinkle in his eye and that sharp wit that he shared with the world. We lost such a valuable member of society on September 19 and I will remember the way he touched the world for as long as I am on the planet. Love you brother. ❤️

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Joyce Wagner

Clare Bayard

Nancy Logan

Adele Failes-Carpenter

2014, Fort Hood, TX, USA

The thing that is front of mind and heart for me since learning of Drake's passing is awe and appreciation for the ways that Drake worked with others to inquire about, to pay close attention to, to defend, and to build worlds that mattered to him; and for the relationships and capacities that were borne out of those efforts. I have been thinking about Drake’s candor, eagerness, and go-hard approach to work and to thought. I have also been thinking about his generosity—how hard he worked to engage me as a thought and writing partner in finishing the Fort Hood testimony project we had begun years earlier after a lyme infection and new parenthood had both seriously impacted my capacity. This was no small thing to me. At a time when I was struggling to find a new relationship to political work and with having internalized sexist but ubiquitous nonsense about parenting a young child somehow being incompatible with the demands of sustained intellectual work, Drake extended himself to both see through the completion of the testimony project and to make sure I stayed closely involved. Even a few months ago, Drake would schedule phone calls with me to talk through ideas for his writing projects during my runs when that turned out to be the kid-free time I had available. I experienced this as comradely and feminist, but especially, as the kind of thing someone does when they actually deeply value being in struggle and sharing in thought with others—something that unfortunately the cults of academic personality and late capitalist self-branding do not promote. I think this is why Drake earned trust and built strong relationships in the many communities he worked in: in veteran-led anti-war work and in work addressing military toxics in Iraq and on the Big Island in Hawaii. When I think of Drake’s work on the Fort Hood testimonies, I also think about how no other person sat with as much of that particular archive of suffering and resistance as he did while working to transcribe and code the interviews—how haunting and worthwhile and very very challenging that was. In his work on military toxics, Drake worked to stay present with imperial and colonial violences that live deep underground, in blood and bone and story. Violences that stay after the spectacular violence of war has retreated from view. This was consistent with the detail, dedication, and non-instrumentalizing urgency he brought to all his work, and is why he touched many people. Somehow, despite having heard from so many of those beloved friends and comrades since his passing, I am still aware that I know but a fragment of what Drake meant to our shared community, as well as to others I have yet to meet. A part of the Fort Hood report was trying to bear witness to the routinized suffering that ordered and still orders life in the place in the U.S. which has been the most materially tied to the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; to the impacts on the lives of people who had been turned into a permanent, if expendable, class of soldiers shouldering for, and sheltering much of the rest of the U.S. population from the reality of two simultaneous and lengthy wars. We dedicated the report to Jacob David George, an Afghanistan veteran, anti-war organizer, and artist who died at this time of year six years ago. It is too much to lose Drake ever, and now. But even in a world that is too much, it is worth showing up for each other, worth bearing witness, worth struggling to think through, and worth dreaming bigger. Drake knew this. And worked to do this alongside others. In doing so, he gave us much to learn from, to love, and to hope for.

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Nancy Logan

Joyce Wagner

Clare Bayard

Alejandro Urruzmendi

Jeremy Berggren

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Joyce Wagner

❤️❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️

Siri Margerin

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Joyce Wagner

Paisley Currah

2020, Zoom

Drake at the PhD dissertation "defense" in September. Drake was awarded the rare honor of passing "with distinction" for an excellent dissertation, "SEARCHING FOR PŌHAKULOA: A CITIZEN SCIENTIST’S JOURNEY IN ALOHA ‘ĀINA."

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Nancy Logan

Betty Yu

Rosa Squillacote

Joyce Wagner

Clare Bayard

Ann Wright

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Nancy Logan

On that day, I was so honored for the opportunity to be present at his defense and so very proud of him for... Read more On that day, I was so honored for the opportunity to be present at his defense and so very proud of him for an excellent presentation.... Read more On that day, I was so honored for the opportunity to... Read more

Nancy Logan

For my darling Drake-bird,

Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace of the infinite peace to you

I will love you forever,
Mum-bird

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Adele Failes-Carpenter

Joyce Wagner

Clare Bayard

Nancy Logan

let it go - the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise - let it go it
was sworn to
go

let them go - the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers - you must let them go they
were born
to go

let all go - the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things - let all go
dear

so comes love

e.e. cummings, Complete Poems 1904-1962
Drake shared this poem with me when my Dad died. I share it now with all of you who loved her too.

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Rosa Squillacote

Joyce Wagner

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Leanna Heffner

Drake had this poem written on sticky notes on his bathroom mirror. I had wanted to ask him what it personally... Read more Drake had this poem written on sticky notes on his bathroom mirror. I had wanted to ask him what it personally meant to him, but... Read more Drake had this poem written on sticky notes on his ... Read more

Nancy Logan

Leanna -- what you wrote in your comment is powerful. I did not know this . . . Leanna -- what you wrote in your comment is powerful. I did not know this . . . Leanna -- what you wrote in your comment is powerful.... Read more

Sara Nash

Dear Nancy, Drake and I shared this poem together as well. I met him as Lindsay as a student in my undergraduate Mindfulness in Everyday Life class I was teaching at UF, but he quickly became MY teacher and for a while my very best friend.  We were connected through the Alachua County Crisis Center and the soul, through art and poetry and the longing to be in perfect integrity with self and perfect communion with others. I watched him transition into his ever-evolving life and path in San Francisco and beyond after he left Gainesville, and visited him in SF several times. He opened me to myself and the possibilities of my life in ways that continue to profoundly impact me even as we went separate ways. We have stayed in a little touch over the years but I am just today hearing of his death. I am pierced to the core with this loss , fitting as he pierced me through time and space with his achingly beautiful raw nerve of a presence. I am sending love to you Nancy as  you grieve and honor your Lindsay and then/now Drake bird, among the rarest of humans and the rarest of spirits of I have ever met.  I am also deeply touched by the memorial and to finally put names and faces to so many of the beings he told me about in endless letters from the far flung places around the world. His light shines on in me and countless others and his loss opens me more deeply to the wisdom of his unparalleled life.

Dear Nancy, Drake and I shared this poem together as well. I met him as Lindsay as a student in my undergraduate... Read more Dear Nancy, Drake and I shared this poem together as well. I met him as Lindsay as a student in my undergraduate Mindfulness in... Read more Dear Nancy, Drake and I shared this poem together as... Read more

Nancy Logan

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Joyce Wagner

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Nancy Logan

Mommy and Lindsay having fun in our backyard pool! Oh, and rubber duckie, too! Mommy and Lindsay having fun in our backyard pool! Oh, and rubber duckie, too! Mommy and Lindsay having fun in our backyard pool! ... Read more

Anne-Laure Chaillou

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Elizabeth Scotten

Nancy Logan

Joyce Wagner

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Anne-Laure Chaillou

Rising above the fog, enjoying a day out with the “famiry”. Rising above the fog, enjoying a day out with the “famiry”. Rising above the fog, enjoying a day out with the “famiry”.... Read more

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