Embracing ugly in a world that’s tried to weaponize it against me
The impact of being uglified has real, painful, and pervasive consequences.
I thought Crohn’s was why I hated my body. Instead, it showed me how liberating loving Black bodies can be
Escape is little more than retreat, but Liberation is the creation of something you don’t need to escape from.
Any conversation about disability justice must wrestle with Black trauma
Without intending to, I subconsciously isolated Blackness from disability as if our history and our present doesn’t reflect that—as if the term “disabled†is not perpetually expanding and contracting to accommodate a plethora of other experiences.
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.
How slavery taught me to be hyper-vigilant in a never ending chase after safety
It is exhausting to always be this vigilant, and all too often it is still not enough.
Passing the torch to Black heroes in comics is part of the white supremacist lineage of reconciling servitude
I'm distasteful of the comic trope of for succeeding white men because I believe this is one of many strategies white people have adopted to cope with their mortality, and keeping us bound to them in servitude
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.
Taylor Swift isn’t copying Beyoncé. She’s mocking her.
Taylor Swift is not copying Beyoncé. She’s mocking Beyoncé. This difference assumes a level of intent that brings forth deliberate malice and cultural disruption.
How Afro-futurism helped me reclaim the narrative around Blackness in a hopeless world
As social media made me more cognizant of the atrocities of state-sanctioned violence, my thoughts began to grow darker. My soft optimist soon crystallized into a hardened soul.
It’s time to abolish elite universities
Harvard, Princeton & Yale have all perpetuated and continue to benefit from chattel slavery. This ideology affected state and public policy in insidious ways that have carried over to the present
