Yesterday, I was posed with a question about why I would repost a meme elevating Black women as the "Top Women". A sweet friend of mine felt she could not get on board with the idea, and that it was a further way to divide women....that "all women were top women." I assured her it [...]
Tag: Current Events
A War on People: Black, Brown & Indigenous People
My beautiful siSTAR and favorite human (pictured above) can’t make it any clearer for you. Sure all lives matter. But all lives have not been under siege for centuries. There hasn’t been a war on all bodies, all minds, or all spirits. All lives haven’t been enslaved, or their ancestors enslaved. All lives didn’t build [...]
Jogging While Black
We must learn to be in the world. Not of the world. Buddha said this. Earlier this morning, I posted two things on my social media regarding the tragic murder of the young black jogger killed in Georgia by what I see otherwise as three white men acting as modern day slave patrols. However, after [...]
Assemblages: Anti-Oppression Works
The UNC Greensboro Women's and Gender Studies Program organizes and hosts their Annual Research Symposium each Spring. I am honored to have co-organized, presented at and gave opening remarks at this year's conference. Conference attendees keep asking me to post those remarks...So here they are: In a time when a national figurehead can say or [...]
Acceptance is the Mantra
2018 shattered illusions. 2019 is about seeing without the veils, about moving from 3D to 5D thinking. As the midnight hour neared, they asked me what I wanted for the New Year. I had no answer. What I had wanted more than anything in 2018 did not come to pass. They say the sun always [...]
Don’t Shoot the Messenger
In lieu of the latest scandals involving men in positions of power, abusing their power, I have thought deeply and tried to remain objective. When we use one another's pain as a platform for political agency alone, we perpetuate the very dominant systems we seek to transcend. By simply focusing on the actual events or [...]
