This is Liberation?
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
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
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.
Righteous Anger VS Entitled Anger
Anger need not harm. If you treat it with respect, it will teach you how to love.
The Inhumanity of White Supremacy
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.
My Brilliance is Black
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.
Reclaiming My Power from White Women
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.