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Making History Visible: The Practice of Remembering

Throughout my work creating collages, and scouring the web for meaningful art, I have found thousands of... more

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The Unpretty Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition

Resistance Against White Terrorism: Black gun ownership

Why Black pain will never disarm white supremacy

Black Resistance: Examining the “1st” Free Black Town in the Americas

Forbidden Laughter: The History of Laughing Barrels

A New Education System without Police

Change the Name

Resisting constant surveillance in my predominantly white neighborhood

Why we need to stop excluding Black populations from ideas of who is “Indigenous”

Stolen bodies, Stolen land: Contemplating Blackness and Indigeneity

We shouldn’t be surprised by Jay-Z’s NFL move. He’s always been a capitalist & this is what capitalism looks like

Black/POC mixed race folks can reverse the anti-Blackness of mixed race narratives

Faced with commercialization, the Black Punk community turns to its past for a guide to keep resisting

Sometimes, I give gentrifiers the wrong directions when they get lost

Anti-Asian Violence—it runs deeper than hate

Black dissociation is a requirement of capitalism

Talking to Black youth about the complexities of sexual racism after Wilder v Fury

How TikTok is ushering in yet another way for youths to don “Digital Blackface”

Black and in Vietnam, my hair is not a spectacle

How the myth that all Black parents give kids “the talk” about police is used to silence resistance

Prison abolition is more than a lofty theoretical. It’s also unpretty, everyday practices of resisting state policing

When combatting colorism in dating practices becomes overcompensating for guilt

Why Black LGBTQ+ people get upset when our most prominent people show up with white partners

When therapists gaslight Black people into tranquility instead of validating our legitimate anxieties

Black liberation requires making room for uncomfortable manifestations of mental illness

The conditioning that fuels the mental health epidemic for Black men, and how to stop it

Why racial disparities in U.S. maternal health are so terrible, and what you can do about it

2020 candidates are finally talking about reparations. It’s time to deepen the debate

Intergenerational trauma is gendered, and other life lessons from my Black mother & sister

I grew up thinking that my body was blemished by Blackness

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