Dead Black Boy Magic: How mental health stigmas compound with anti-queerness to kill our children
I carry a combination of marginal identities that hold an enduring need for self-sufficiency and suffering.
Embracing ugly in a world that’s tried to weaponize it against me
The impact of being uglified has real, painful, and pervasive consequences.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
The motherland isn’t a correctional facility: How turning home into a place to “fix” Black children leads to disconnection from our roots
These threats came with an inadvertent price - a polluted perception towards my own mother-country.
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.
Contrasting the historic Emmy noms of “When They See Us” with the decision not to charge Eric Garner’s murderer
These two moments are linked not only by the NYPD’s long standing racism and inadequacy, but they’re also linked through their re-traumatization of our community. These two moments demonstrate that Black pain only gets widespread acknowledgement when it’s distant enough from outsiders’ daily lives to consume.
