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The Red-Winged Blackbird Sings Me Forward

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.
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Reckoning with The Slow Violence We’ve Come to Accept

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…
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I AM NOT THE ANCHOR TO YOUR MISEDUCATION

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…
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We Been Had Environmental Blues

We Been Had Environmental Blues

Bucking, Swimming, Clucking, and Running for Higher Ground
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Beyoncé’s Renaissance Proclaims Blackness and Black Sound Beyond Mainstream Borders

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…
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I Yearn for Safe Havens

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…
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Environmentalists ‘Should’ Redirect Their Climate Change Soapbox

Environmentalists ‘Should’ Redirect Their Climate Change Soapbox

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