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We Been Had Environmental Blues

Bucking, Swimming, Clucking, and Running for Higher Ground

Mar 20, 2023

We Been Had Environmental Blues

Mar 20, 2023

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I’d Rather Put My Faith In Our Journeys

I have always been an optimist when it comes to my goals, but valuing my self-worth has required me to reconsider them. Often…

Sep 17

I’d Rather Put My Faith In Our Journeys

Sep 17

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The Red-Winged Blackbird Sings Me Forward

The red-winged blackbird helped me decolonize my view of myself. The bird is not beholden to time or even the miles that had separated us.

Jul 22

The Red-Winged Blackbird Sings Me Forward

Jul 22

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Reckoning with The Slow Violence We’ve Come to Accept

At times of war, when the mainstream media or when the collective acknowledges war, we are confronted with consequences of slow violence…

Nov 4, 2023

Reckoning with The Slow Violence We’ve Come to Accept

Nov 4, 2023

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I AM NOT THE ANCHOR TO YOUR MISEDUCATION

It is here, in higher education, where I am in the minority that I hear me comfortably misjudged. Here is where I feel uncomfortable. Here…

Jul 8, 2023

I AM NOT THE ANCHOR TO YOUR MISEDUCATION

Jul 8, 2023

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Beyoncé’s Renaissance Proclaims Blackness and Black Sound Beyond Mainstream Borders

I do feel intentionality in Renaissance, an explicit conversation with Blackness across the diaspora. I hear an unruly, Black creative…

Aug 5, 2022

Beyoncé’s Renaissance Proclaims Blackness and Black Sound Beyond Mainstream Borders

Aug 5, 2022

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I Yearn for Safe Havens

… there is a difference between voicing and healing, between surviving and thriving. I have more recently realized how much thriving and…

Nov 25, 2021

I Yearn for Safe Havens

Nov 25, 2021

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Environmentalists ‘Should’ Redirect Their Climate Change Soapbox

So, I hear climate change, and I don’t think I have the same understanding.

Aug 15, 2021

Environmentalists ‘Should’ Redirect Their Climate Change Soapbox

Aug 15, 2021

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Rediscovering Black Joy in Nature This Year

I find joy knowing that there are many that experience Black joy in nature despite the myth and despite the concerted efforts to silence…

Dec 23, 2020

Rediscovering Black Joy in Nature This Year

Dec 23, 2020

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Performative Allyship Won’t Save Black Lives

I understand that I am a guest on Coast Salish lands — that I too could fall into the pitfall of continuing the performance.

Jul 12, 2020

Performative Allyship Won’t Save Black Lives

Jul 12, 2020

Rasheena Fountain

Rasheena Fountain

an artist, growing scholar, musician, poet, and essayist with focus on Black environmental memory, literature, migration studies, and blues/other Black music.

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