The Helping Questions: Notes from the Future As you may or may not know I have been suffering from severe symptoms stemming from several illnesses including cfs/me, POTS, gastroparesis and more. It’s devastating. As I sit in bed (bedridden) I often journal and dream about my life and a future…

is so heavy. It follows me, It chases me, For far longer and more intensely than this dark cloud above me ever could. (That’s depression). Optimism has been an unforgiving and unbearable ray of sunshine that beams down on me. heavy and blinding. It seeps through the teeth of everyone…

Sitting in yet another doctors office in my wheelchair waiting for the dreaded question “What is your family medical history”? Recently I’ve been contemplating why I hate this question so much. Maybe it’s the face that doctors give me when I recite the list of illnesses my mothers side of…

Preliminary thoughts about Child Protection and the Commodification of Black Family Separation A Los Angeles Times news article from May 17, 1987 reads in bold letters, “Time for getting to know you” a byline for the Los Angeles Black Adoption Festival (Chavez, 1987). This byline was accompanied by a picture…

Black[ness] • & Being • Alive • with • Joy Grief Remembrance Pain Openness The air The ground The water Community Matter to Matter Never alone • (with)in • Solidarity Fugitivity Liberation Breaking temporalities • beyond • Beyond language Beyond time Beyond space Beyond words Beyond Truth We will not…

Abandoning the Western Framework: Short Reflections on reading Wynter & Implications for Child Welfare. Truthfully, engaging with Wynter is always such a process. The sort of cyclical nature of the Western episteme and it’s ability and intention to reach out it’s tentacles and ensnare/reproduce reactionary modes of parallel/embedded thinking is…