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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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 […]
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 […]
A Sci Fi Short for Michael Brown
‘We must become experts on lynching.’ ‘Again?’ ‘Yes. We thought it was a past tense virus, but it was just in mutation. Our danger is escalating.’ ‘And if we know […]
Reflecting on Terrorism
It has always been a question for me. Why? As a human who has lived a beautiful life, loves my family, has called many places home, has believed lots of […]
love scholarship lessons 14-20
14. if i want love, i can’t hurt love. i used to be very cavalier about the idea of boundaries in love. ‘that’s not how humans ARE,’ i’d insist. ‘we […]
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 […]