Our elders are more than the utility they provide
The problem of visibility at the intersection of aging, poverty and Blackness predates me, finding its genesis on the plantation grounds.
Words our fathers should have said: Encouragement for other Black cis-het men experiencing body-dysmorphia
I hoarded bodybuilding magazines and wasted nights diagramming routines which earned me more injuries than benefit. In the gym, I exercised to nausea, vomited and despised myself for being ill equipped for exercise regimens designed to market magazines.
On Black Death and grieving modalities
Our deaths, even in private, are suggestions of what we deserve. And they are always in relationship with the state.
How cis-het Black men’s attempts to be advocates for others fail when we refuse to acknowledge our violence
We illustrate further, our harm, when we react to being indicted for our wounding intentions. Yoba stormed out of an interview with The Root—their staff enduring quite a tantrum. Members of my organization, when inquiring if I cared more about community needs or my own desires, were subject to the same.
“Slave films” are how some of us defend our dead, whether you’re tired of them or not
Suffering, or the evidence of, is something the children of Slavery cannot disengage. We must face it. We must properly defend our dead.
