St Louis Racial Equity Summit Keynote (notes): We are imagining a world we have never seen before. Writing it into existence with words and with actions. We who live in […]
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Additional Resources for Facing Coronavirus/Covid19
ah loves, turns out it’s not easy to take a sabbatical during a global apocalyptic event. in my attempt to stay away from news, work, stress, and distraction, i found […]
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build as we fight: remarks from the 2019 American Studies Association Annual Meeting
my friend and comrade Scott Kurashige is the president of the American Studies Association, and this year he very kindly invited me to be the artist-in-residence, which meant that I […]
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trust the people
lessons from the emergent strategy immersion new orleans: trust the people who move towards you and already feel like home. trust the people to let you rest. trust the people […]
relinquishing the patriarchy
dear men. this is mostly a note to straight, cis men; but also includes trans men, queer men, and all who participate in masculinity – if you see yourself in […]
Building Accountable Communities (speech on strategies for ending and recovering from harm)
Harm is an external wound to your wholeness. More than a bump, an accident. Harm is what convinces us that in this abundant world, we only deserve to survive. Convinces […]
no monster will keep you safe at night
last week i made myself watch the ‘surviving r kelly’ documentary. i knew it was coming, and i knew it would not be easy to contend with. i have deep […]
writing so hard
writing comes easily to me in that i write daily, and have since i learned the alphabet. i don’t really feel things fully, or understand things, until i have written […]
my hands
i just turned in the pleasure activism manuscript. my hands hurt. and the book is exciting. !! the moon is full above thick clouds. i feel her. i completed this […]
two sweet things
one – the podcast i am doing with my sister, How to Survive the End of the World, is going and growing, with 80K listens and over 100 patrons. This […]