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Rest is not resistance: Commodification, Capitalism, and the Cult of Self-Care
We have to start using words with intention if we are to fight the battle ahead.
Feb 16
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Love Note #15: Black Futures Month Is Here
This is my favorite month of the year.
Feb 15
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Whiteness and the privilege of surprise
The perpetual surprise from white people is privilege embodied.
Jan 30
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Brené Brown, Courage Culture, and the Co-optation of Black Women's Intellectual Labor
Dec 6, 2025
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Black women do not owe you "grace"
Sep 2, 2025
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Kendrick, the revolutionary, Beyoncé, the culture vulture: A tale of misogynoir
Mar 10, 2025
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A lesbian married to a man? writing on the expansiveness of lesbian life
Apr 25, 2025
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A meditation on all the 'Wicked' women
Jan 15, 2025
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Holding white parents accountable for white male violence
Sep 27, 2025
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Writing memoir: A practice in surviving and telling the story
It's an exercise in self-retrospection that rips us in two.
Jan 19
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Love Note #14: The paperback of Black Women Taught Us is out TODAY!
No more resolutions. Just manifestation and intentions.
Jan 13
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Black Feminist Book Club Picks For 2026
12 Black Feminist books for what we hope will be an incredible year.
Dec 26, 2025
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Black Feminist Book Club #13: How We Write Now by Jennifer Nash
Ending the year with a reflection on Black loss and the Black maternal.
Dec 22, 2025
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On straightness and other things I never knew
Being straight is as foreign to me as the North Pole yet more familiar than anything else I know.
Dec 18, 2025
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Brené Brown, Courage Culture, and the Co-optation of Black Women's Intellectual Labor
The cycle of exploitation runs deeper than we would like to admit.
Dec 6, 2025
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Love Note #13: Pushing through the coldest winter ever
Sistah Souljah has been on my mind heavy.
Nov 30, 2025
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Black Feminist Book Club #12: Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth Richie
You can't have one without the other.
Nov 26, 2025
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On finding hope in a hopeless place
Shout out to Rihanna and Barack Obama
Nov 21, 2025
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