I'm fascinated by culture. How culture is created, how cultures shape our every thought and action, how similar or different cultures can be. In the journey to grow a more loving and just society, culture is an essential part of strategies for lasting change. If...
Moments when my heart hurts or feels tension I'm frequently noticing the ache my heart is feeling as I navigate this moment in life. I use moment in a stretched sense. Not a polaroid moment, but a stream of experiences that encapsulate a sense of now, this time, this...
I am honored to be part of a powerful, collaborative team that co-created and co-curated this booklet: "Relevant Education Grows All Learners (REGAL) Learning Pods: Bringing out the royalty in students, centering Black humanity." Co-Authored with Dr. Tiece Ruffin,...
A prayer posted to Facebook tonight. November 2, 2020. Some Voting Day Eve thoughts and prayers... I pray that all the blood and sweat and tears and death and innovation and creativity and resilience and love that has been poured into this country, into this land......
Heart wrenching realities clashing in bodies like thunder storms colliding. Sept. 23, 1955 Emmett Till's murderers walk out of the courts, guilty of acts of horrendous violence and free from any court/government accountability. Sept. 23, 2020 Breonna Taylor's...
https://youtu.be/uJZ3RPJ2rNc "Good intentions don't equal good outcomes."- Dena Simmons "You can't be trauma informed if you're not talking about racism. Without an anti-racist lens, SEL (Social Emotional Learning) is white supremacy with a hug."- Dena Simmons...
This question was offered to me by Valarie Kaur in her book See No Stranger: A memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love. I'm reflecting on this question often, as we explore reparations and how to repair the damage done historically and present day, as we call for...
https://youtu.be/FnKF3xU3D24 This animation was created in May during the COVID-19 Stay Home Stay Safe order as a way to make visual the reality that we are each having our own pandemic experience. It evolved from a graphic I created to try and make sense of the many...
Today the state of North Carolina enters into its first phase of what folks call opening back up. I'm getting hung up on the phrase opening back up. Who is opening? What is being opened? Who/what had a chance to close? Who stopped? Who had to keep going? What types of...
This is a time of grief. I am feeling my own grief, the grief of people close to me, and the collective grief. Some folks are aware that they are feeling grief, others are having grief responses but don't know how to identify what is going on. I don't think there is...
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