Black women’s impossible dilemma: How this world ties our “safety” to the protection of our abusers
The world has an appetite for our pain, and this is what I refuse. This is why I will never again decide to protect someone who harms me.
Protecting inanimate objects and “values” over Black lives has always been essential to America
None of this is new, and when we remember this we get stronger in our strategies of dismantling the systems that produce this violence.
Is that building racist or is it just me?: The anti-Black history of urban planning
There are other “less” insidious markers of environmental racism that doesn’t specifically place gentrification at the center. I’ve been horrified and fascinated to track the trends of changes in communities urban development structures that impact our daily lives and our memorie
This ‘Raising Dion’ story-line is a powerful lesson on consent, disability and possession
The relationship between Esperanza and Dion can be viewed to challenge the typical representation of disability while also encouraging nuance, accountability and change.
It’s hard to celebrate how Black women always have each other’s backs when we shouldn’t be the only ones who do
There are folks in close proximity to us that will never know how and why we despair because they haven’t made space for us to be anything but strong. And it is killing us.
Even when Black conspiracy theories are misguided, they are not nonsensical
Rumor and skepticism function as toolkits, glossaries and blueprints for Black folks to navigate the haunting brutality of white economies and its conductors.
It’s not “complicated”: Black children deserve space to question, challenge & reject the world around them
When we collapse children’s autonomy in both fictive and lived realities, we undermine their ability to contemplate nuance.
Decriminalizing Black theft, and the right to steal in an anti-Black capitalist society
“We’ve always been at the center of the theft.” - Andrew Salkey Six months into the catastrophe of my grandmother's death, her car was broken into three times. The last time they took her notebooks and my favorite shoes. Before…
Why Black people need to explore intimacy within our friendships & non-sexual relationships
White supremacy and cis-heteropatriarchy encourage us to have selective distributions of intimacy, touch and care that are reserved specifically for our sexual partners and family members.
Caster Semenya and how the biomedical industry is designed to kill Black people
The idea that there are only two genders is an intentional capitalist and colonial project used to strengthen the political economies of hegemony and anti-Blackness.
