Terry Marshall of Intelligent Mischief recently articulated this moment we’re in as a Black Renaissance. I concur – we are transforming pain into gold at an impossible speed. I keep […]
Tag: transformation
Self Love as a Liberatory Practice for the Future
On Wednesday night I got to have a public conversation with new and old friends about self love. We spoke at Solespace, my favorite site store /community space in Oakland. […]
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black sci fi dreaming (report back from Ferguson is the Future)
so…princeton’s new african american studies department partnered with the octavia butler legacy network to offer up ferguson is the future, a black to the future sci fi love fest extravaganza […]
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37 gratitudes
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 […]
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 […]
10 random and possibly funny reflections from my hedgebrook retreat
1. my favorite is when i am being all brave and going along in nature and then something scares me. the moment when i jump out of my skin and […]
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You Have Permission
We are winning. It’s devastating. Those who believe that the attention of this country (and world) needs to be placed on the death, violence and oppression that result from white […]
what are you a fight for?
i wrote a story this weekend that brought me joy. actually it brought me creative ecstasy. it came at a time when i have been hurting, for lots of reasons, […]
What is/isn’t transformative justice?
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 […]
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 […]