Always open to surprise,
Because I know love is mastering me.
This is Liberation?
April 17, 2023
Personally, I believe that anti-racism in general is a bit of a scam. I believe that anti-racism is itself a continuation of white supremacy. It centers whiteness and white people. It prioritizes a form of liberation that isn’t really concerned about what liberation feels like to me.
If I’m sitting there holding space for some weird anti-racism performance while feeling uncomfortable, then where is my liberation?
Allow Me to (Re)Introduce Myself
March 1, 2022
I believe that my creativity is something that I inherited from creation. I understand it for the power that it is and the power we’ve been taught that it’s not. I think things like gatekeeping and scarcity and extraction are meant to keep us at odds with our capacity to create worlds.
What the Mountain Taught Me
February 2, 2022
After two and a half years of living in the mountains Mike and I made our departure shortly after the New Year. Our last week in the mountains was filled with some greatest hits - snow storms, power outages, mud slides and major road closures, paired with time spent marveling at how winter manages to hold the extreme of life coming to a halt and life bursting at the seams. Winter was my favorite season to be there.
Lewis Hamilton and the Humanity of Black Athletes
July 20, 2021
The Black athletes who continue to stand up for something bigger than themselves give the rest of us space to do the same. When they exercise their power, they show us that it can be done. They show us the love of our times.
Remembering Beverly “Guitar Watkins”
October 10, 2019
I asked her who introduced her to the blues and she answered definitively; “Jesus.” That’s what talking to Bev was like — she was definitive. She knew who she was, she knew what she could do, and she was generous in extending that same clarity to others.
Righteous Anger VS Entitled Anger
July 11, 2018
Anger need not harm. If you treat it with respect, it will teach you how to love.
Black Lives Matter (Unequivocally)
August 15, 2018
The need to respond to Black Lives Matter with anything other than: yes, unequivocally, is evidence of where Anti-Blackness lives.
It’s Time for America - to Become.
May 23, 2018
The cruelty underlying anti-immigrant sentiments is not of America. The land doesn’t discriminate. The land supports and nourishes and homes. The land provides and shelters and holds.
The only distinction between myself and the immigrants currently facing or fearful of deportation are pieces of paper. Words written on trees the land gave us used as an instrument of control.
The Inhumanity of White Supremacy
May 23, 2018
What is white supremacy without contrast?
Nothing.
White supremacy is codependent.
It ceases to exist without us.
Because of that, it relies on creating contrast where it was never meant to exist.
On White Leaders Who Dehumanize Black People
April 30, 2018
I believe that white supremacy is the attempt to love oneself through the subjugation of others. Therefore white supremacy will never be my responsibility. I didn’t earn it, and therefore I cannot end it.
My Brilliance is Black
August 4, 2017
What does it look like to address all the ways we’ve been harmed without ever becoming what we fight. To be beautifully human and beautifully okay with all the ways that’s made manifest.
The Freedom to Leave
July 23, 2017
When white imaginations monopolize the stories that get told; your own imagination is challenged to center yourself in the story of your own life, to dream of a future for yourself in which you’re allowed to be the hero.
Reclaiming My Power from White Women
November 11, 2016
What I’m describing is privilege — the belief ingrained in white girls and white boys, from a young age, that they are the center of the human universe. They are the sun that the rest of us circle around. When we try to form our own constellations — they don’t know how to react. They throw asteroids at our stars and anxiously count our planets to make sure they still have more.