I’ve been thinking a lot about transformative justice lately. In the past few months I’ve been to a couple of gatherings I was really excited about, and then found myself […]
Year: 2015
post nationalist on holiday
I don’t believe in Or celebrate Your borders But I love fireworks (as an act of magic I suspend my memory of violence) I love your black ribs I love […]
when are we / #whoisburningblackchurches
If 7 white churches had burned down in 14 days, after 9 white people were killed by a person of any other race in a house of worship, can you […]
we are so fantastic/it hurts so much
this morning i woke up and again watched bree newsome take down the confederate battle flag from the capitol of the state my family is from, where most of them […]
in octavia’s lineage
happy Octavia Butler birthday!! last year i was beginning the inaugural class of VONA’s Speculative Fiction workshop on Her birthday. this year it’s her day and i’m up early for […]
Dolezal Affectation and other sci-fi poetics from Rachel
We are piles of secrets We construct truths to survive Now we are all looking at yours At first glance We are appalled How does this disgust feel to you? […]
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BALLE 2015 Closing Plenary Speech
Here are the notes from my talk today at the BALLE 2015 Conference! Enjoy. Thank you first and foremost for your work to bend the future towards justice, love, cooperation […]
the black fantastic
Hello loves! I’m in the midst of an 11 city segment of this Octavia’s Brood book tour, so I’m sorry for writing less. Here’s a little something I posted on […]
this is all the miracle (adapting towards pleasure)
it is easy to think everything is a miracle during a moment of external joy – falling in love, welcoming new life into the world, celebrating a major accomplishment, seeing […]
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interdependence is iterative
interdependence is one of the elements of emergent strategy that i have been studying (and, i thought, embodying) over the past few years. i love it theoretically – no one […]