For the Love of Topsy (& Bopsy)* this is written out of a rush of “fandom energy” idk if that’s a thing but last nights episode of Lovecraft Country hit all my Black…Oct 6, 2020Oct 6, 2020
Happy Birthday Toni Morrison: An Invocation for the Salt TastersLast week, I was invited by my stellar comrade + colleague Dr. Jakeya Caruthers to lead an embodied spiritual-political education…Feb 18, 2020Feb 18, 2020
siempre bruja — trust me, keep watchingSlavery is broadly considered an inappropriate context for melodrama, but i’m writing because I feel strongly that there is a bigger pointFeb 18, 20191Feb 18, 20191
Invocation for our Celie-ness, our Netties, our Sophias and our Shugs (from Exhale Collective…Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple to tell the story of her step-grandmother Rachel. For Walker not only does Celie exist, but there is a…Oct 16, 2018Oct 16, 2018
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Twerkin’ Diaspora: Reading Urban Afro-Femme Performance (#RUDigitalBlackness2016)In November of 2014, Jamie Moore AKA Betty Butt, a founding member of “The Official Twerk Team,” was shot and killed inside her Atlanta…Apr 26, 2016Apr 26, 2016