Pandemic Parents: Our First Year
As the babies born in the pandemic begin to celebrate their first year of life, let us pause and reflect. We are the parents of the strong-hearts who stepped forward into uncertainty to remind us [...]
Pandemic Parenthood
I am a Pandemic Mama. At first this title made me sad, angry, and resentful. But now, nine months into motherhood during a global health crisis, I wear it like a badge of [...]
Raising the Revolution
Parenting in a time of protest doesn’t mean you’re sitting on the sidelines. The revolution wakes you before the sun comes up. It asks you a million questions a day. The revolution wants kisses for [...]
He Cried Out for His Mama
He cried out for his mama. I can’t get this out of my head. When I saw it, another public execution of a Black person, I was holding my phone in one hand and my [...]
Descendants
To remember- We are not descendants of slaves. We are descendants of royalty, of scientists, of artists, of prophets, of medicine people, of philosophers, of architects. We are descendants of great and noble People, who [...]
Revolution
and here i stand in a body that comes from bodies wars have been waged upon fortified by generations of sung prayers preparing to bring forward new life this is my revolution [...]
Little Sister
Little sister I see you even if you have yet to see yourself Even if you mask yourself in fragments of untruths of you Even when you cloak yourself because somewhere, sometime, Someone has made [...]
Brown Girl Magic
brown girl doused with magic from lightly sun-kissed to the richest depth of cocoa colour you are whispered prayers and sung resistance your breath is poetry your heartbeat, revolution
