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Dr. Addie Ellis

Dr. Addie Ellis

I’m Not Woke

Woke (verb) past tense of wake: 1. to rouse from or as if from sleep, 2. stir, excite. an experience that woke old feelings, 3. to arouse…

Jun 13, 2023

I’m Not Woke

Jun 13, 2023

Dr. Addie Ellis

Meeting Octavia Butler

Photo by Ed Robertson on Unsplash

May 31, 2023

Stacks of books

May 31, 2023

Dr. Addie Ellis

Grief Loops

We are all impacted by the duality of life

May 24, 2023

Park bench overlooking a green field

May 24, 2023

Dr. Addie Ellis

Abundant blessings to you as we enter 2022.

I recently watched the movie “Don’t Look Up.” There were moments as I watched that I could not help but think of all of the things we’ve…

Jan 1, 2022

Calendar showing the month of January

Jan 1, 2022

Dr. Addie Ellis

Anxiety is Energy Unmoved

I’m a girl who chases rainbows and butterflies, climbs mountaintops to blue skies, contemplating deep waters, searching for unicorns…

Oct 8, 2021

Boothbay, ME botanical gardens picture of me with Gro the wanderer troll, guardian of the leaves

Oct 8, 2021

Dr. Addie Ellis

The Crisis of Now

Pain unanswered can lead to our destruction

Aug 30, 2020

A person holding a Black Lives Matter sign

Aug 30, 2020

Dr. Addie Ellis

I, too, sing America

Living in contradictions, complexities and flaws

Jul 4, 2020

Black child with flag glasses and stars in his hair. Mouth open to yell

Jul 4, 2020

Dr. Addie Ellis

Don’t Be an Ally

Hashtags, selfies, and having Black friends don’t change the system

Jun 6, 2020

Don’t Be an Ally

Jun 6, 2020

Dr. Addie Ellis

Death by Jogging

Bored with COVID-19 news we needed a new cause celebre. We found it in the murder of a young man, a mother’s child. As we tie a yellow…

May 9, 2020

The sands through the hourglass

May 9, 2020

Dr. Addie Ellis

Whiteness in Crisis

I am going to say something very unpopular. It actually may cause me to lose my Black Card. Here it is, I fear whiteness. Read the sentence…

Apr 16, 2020

A quarantine sign with definition of quarantine

Apr 16, 2020

Dr. Addie Ellis

Dr. Addie Ellis

Dr. Ellis is a liberatory leader, speaker, and educator. She writes because “I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there” (Audre Lorde).

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