1. My life. 2. My mother, carrying me, loving every iteration of me. 3. My father, at my back, thinking always of my safety. 4. My sisters. Warrior rock comrades […]
Tag: Detroit
something rotten
i came home from a summer of writing on the west coast feeling like a late blooming novelist, centered in what i am here to do. i opened a cabinet […]
from earth to obsidian (28/30)
prompt: write a poem about bridges. A bridge is a powerful metaphor, and when you start looking for bridges in poems, you find them everywhere. Your poem could be about […]
nanowrimo
i am writing a draft of a novel! i had an incredible experience with napowrimo, national poetry writing month. i spent april writing a poem each day and remembering how […]
michael brown’s homegoing
i have been watching ferguson and feeling many many things. how unique this moment is, and how familiar. how exciting the responses have been, and how exhausted i am by […]
nuanced voices on the detroit water situation (shifting from false solutions to real ones)
this past week a victory was declared for the detroit water fight. i got tears in my eyes, i got excited. honey we need some victories. but i also got […]
allied media conference 2014 share out (octavia’s brood, storytelling black women, emergent strategy handbook!)
this year’s allied media conference felt like one miracle after another and i wanted to share out with you all (especially those not there or unable to get into certain […]
letter to charity, as she goes home
i just received the news that my friend and comrade charity mahouna hicks has made her transition. here is the statement on her life from lila cabbil: Our dear Charity […]
water is life (reflection/call to action for detroit)
i feel like sister warrior charity hicks, who has been central in the fight for water rights in detroit and is currently in critical condition after a hit and run […]
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only lovers left alive: movie review / gush
i have said it before and i must say it again: if you are a vampire, i want in. turn me. i am rearticulating this in light of jim jarmusch’s […]