Quick Black History Month Shout-out … slash PSA for White Saviors. It’s still Black History Month and on any given day, I am tasked with regenerating the branches of my Fux-to-Spare-Tree because I’m fully preoccupied thinking about the following: The safety/sanity of my Black Life in America, especially as I…

BLACK IMAGINATION is a conceptual art project. This dynamic and visceral collection of text and sound generated by black-identified folx from all over the diaspora is meant to center, engage, and hold us sacred as wholly complete. Anyone who is Black-identified can contribute to this project by submitting text or…

I keep meaning to write about the phenomenon I’ve labeled “alt-white” — the attempts by people of racially marginalized heritage to buy into white supremacy. It’s a complicated, toxic mess. There have always been individuals willing to sell out others for personal gain. We have vicious names for them, for a reason. We don’t talk as much about the ways that it can become a community choice. The usual ways we talk…

The most efficient way to root out anti-blackness is to center Blackness and just see what happens. I discovered this a few weeks ago, when I posted a poll in an open Facebook group called “Mixed Race Studies” (formerly “Critical Mixed Race Studies” — a group I was added to…

Black Imagination: (g)LISTENING opens at FEAST ARTS CENTER on April 19, 2018 in Tacoma, WA, USA. I arrived ten minutes early for my 7:00 PM appointment. Since it was raining outside, I knocked on the door. A middle-aged white man opened the door and I walked in. Natasha came from…

www.black-imagination.com I would love your help spreading the word about this upcoming project. Please help me forward this message to folks (especially queer or non-binary black folks, black folks who are parents, incarcerated black folks, youth/young black folks, unsheltered black folks, etc.) who may not often have the opportunity to…

www.black-imagination.com I had forgotten it was ok to be. You have a way of pulling me out of the wilderness. There’s so much anti-blackness. Not identifying as Black won’t end that … It’s an invisible weight on you everyday when you have eyes to see and ears to hear. It can drive the best of us mad. Being is amazing. Being black is amazing. Living…

www.black-imagination.com What is your origin story? Before I was I was. Free from Time, Inhabiting Life and chaos. How do you heal yourself? To heal I step away from my own life and seek out the places where Life is at work. Whenever possible I drive thousands of miles towards storms or forest or incalculable spaces. And I breath. And I listen. And I let go. And I’m free. Describe or imagine a world where you are loved, safe, and valued?

www.black-imagination.com What is your origin story? The doctor told my mother, when she went to her first ultrasound appointment, that I would be a twin. He saw two fluid sacs and two forms. By her next appointment, which was time enough for her to get over the shock of having twins to expressing a certain…