Rasheena Fountain

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We Been Had Environmental Blues

Bucking, Swimming, Clucking, and Running for Higher Ground Following the bucks, the rivers, and the various animal personifications in blues music shows that 20th century blues men and women surely thought about land. They did not think of it in the way that white environmentalists think of it. …

Environment

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Environment

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·Aug 5, 2022

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 expression and deliberation on sustenance and Black futures that embraces the moods and grooves that connect us all. Beyoncé’s seventh studio album Act I: Renaissance took me places. I am…

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

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·Nov 25, 2021

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 healing is a community act given the generational and cyclical trauma I face as a Black woman. I want to go where my skin doesn’t crawl a place to…

Culture

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Culture

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·Aug 15, 2021

Environmentalists ‘Should’ Redirect Their Climate Change Soapbox

So, I hear climate change, and I don’t think I have the same understanding. I scroll through my Twitter feed to see calls to action, criticisms, and other reactions to the recent IPCC report about climate change. I see climate change, and I am afraid that I don’t have the…

Climate Change

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Climate Change

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·Dec 23, 2020

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 us. …

Nature

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Nature

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·Jul 12, 2020

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. I am so tired of the performance — public support that doesn’t end up in change for Black people. I used to wonder why Black Lives…

BlackLivesMatter

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Performative Allyship Won’t Save Black Lives

BlackLivesMatter

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·Jun 16, 2020

The Tragedy of the Environmental Movement

The foundations of the movement are not inclusive of the vast experiences that people of color face: the environmental movement perpetuates racism, profits off of it, and continues to silence the truth to keep the machine running smoothly. …

Environment

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Environment

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Jun 7, 2020

Megaphone

Megaphone⁣ ⁣ Your attention⁣ We got that⁣ ⁣ I could scream in faces with a megaphone⁣ And see teeth gnash together in discomfort⁣ ⁣ Then, hurt can make imprints on dull faces⁣ Expressions might give way to voice⁣ ⁣ Mouths become useful when they ain’t muted⁣ Tongues are dead when they satiate in stiffness⁣ ⁣ Can they see the anger when it mobilizes?⁣ Could it…

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Jun 6, 2020

Acid Teardrops

⁣ Tears sent out into the atmosphere linger explosively with the over indulgence⁣ ⁣ Lead bullets saturate ground level populations while…

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·May 28, 2020

This is what I look like under the heat and the sun in landscapes that are otherwise beautiful.

This is what I look like under the heat and the sun in landscapes that are otherwise beautiful. Some might say I look angry — that my frown doesn’t match the landscapes. I have often been told that. I have been told that there is no justification for my expression…

Environment

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This is what I look like under the heat and the sun in landscapes that are otherwise beautiful.

Environment

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