Welcome to Un•Veiled.
A new publication for Black people dedicated to healing from anti-Blackness and internalized oppression.
All of 2020 was especially hard to sleep, but the month of November took the cake. Six am bedtimes from relentless insomnia made my mind wander over the possibilities for my work.
After a Reiki session weeks prior, I realized I could no longer (and had no desire to) use my precious time to speak to those who seek to oppress me. There’s nothing I can say to make my oppressors see my humanity because they themselves are vacant of humanity.
During one of those early morning insomnia sessions, I saw the ways I’d gotten lost in centering whiteness (again) with my work though I was determined not to at the onset.
This wasn’t the first time I needed to be honest about my upholding of white supremacy illusion and anti-Blackness as a Black woman. Part of my healing work is to constantly examine and excavate white systems I’ve been forced to live within from my mind, body, and spirit. It has felt shameful and mortifying, but I am committed to my liberation.
Un•Veiled is about Black liberation.
Conversations on white supremacy illusion and anti-Black racism don’t allow for real, authentic…
