May 25A brief note while in perpetual mourning in America:Note: Talk of the United States ahead I learned very young that the solution to certain problems of mine, to certain aggravated, chronic problems, especially with consistently foul, abusive actors in hegemonic institutions, is to simply do away with the dynamic I was in. To end it, to destroy it…Grief7 min read
Jul 4, 2021This Is What The Memory of American Democracy Looks LikeTo save the world, we must be rid of the tyranny of our romantic recollections of American democracy. — Within a recent New York times piece of the white liberal thought strain that white US policy is actually an aberration to democracy and reflective of other peoples or styles of governance, namely the dreaded communists, it plucked the latest rise of anti-CRT legislation from the American Pie it was…Critical Race Theory10 min read
Jan 18, 2021Only the fires of our revolutionary love can drive the cooling hate of oppressionToday is MLK Jr. day, and it is likely by now you have already seen these words of his in emails and across your social media feed at least a dozen times: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. …Social Justice4 min read
Apr 10, 2018“In the darkness men leave behind the women and emerge in the light clean and free”Having finished reading Junot Diaz’s piece about his rape as a child and the years of sexual, romantic and relationship trauma and toxic patriarchal behavior that followed, I am left with a lot of conflicting thoughts and emotions. I applaud that he’s opening up about and owning to some really…Rape8 min read
Published in culturedGR·Mar 6, 2018Who are the stories for: De-centering the white gaze in conversations about art and raceThough a more intentional attempt, including only featuring voices of color, the recent panel conversation “Who Tells the Story” was still about white people. How powerful could our work be if we shifted that focus and centered ourselves? — Last week, the panel discussion “Who Tells The Story: Unpacking Conversations Around Race and Art” at Fountain Street Church featured local artists and previous ArtPrize contestants, including spoken word artist Ericka Thompson (Kyd Kane), photographer Monroe O’Bryant, and Sofía Ramírez Hernández, who won the 2-D Juried category last year. The…Racism10 min read
Dec 22, 2017The ever-slamming waves of HallyuThe industry takes a toll on everything and everyone-idols, fans, and surrounding communities-except industry wallets. When will enough be enough? — There was this article I read on Medium yesterday about the corruption, political genocides and suppression that occurred when South Korea was first becoming the developed nation as we know it now in the 50s-70s (which of course the US had a hand in). …Kpop10 min read
Dec 18, 2017Up Witch’s MountainHunted, reviled, controlled. Among people, I spent mere fleeting moments in places outside their deepest nightmares and fantasies. Angry. Jezebel. Bitch. Whore. A myth of Babylonian proportions. A character who bled the colors they painted her. Goddess, mother, healer, fear. I inhabited all plateaus, clouds, caves, gullies and hollows above…Fiction4 min read
Dec 13, 2017Resisting the political Mammy narrativeQuit making everything we do about yourself for once and uplift Black women for Black women’s sake — In the aftermath of last night’s Alabama Senate Race results, Black women are yet again being put last in line as beneficiaries to their own act of self-preservation and are instead being seen as everyone else’s salvation. It’s horrific that the situation ever got to the point of requiring an…Black Women6 min read
Dec 10, 2017I’d like it, for once, if a man wanted to be with me, for him to consider what elements he thinks…I’d like it, for once, if a man wanted to be with me, for him to consider what elements he thinks would make us good for each other in equilibrium, as opposed to what aspects of me he thinks qualify me for continuing maternal stewardship of his childishness and arrested…Relationships2 min read
Nov 27, 2017This bridge called my solidarity: The divide between Black women and Indigenous activismOn Thanksgiving last week, Colin Kaepernick joined Indigenous peoples celebrating the Indigenous Peoples’ Sunrise Gathering at Alcatraz to commemorate the anniversary of the Indigenous 1969 takeover of the island. …Racism9 min read
