Author: Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
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Keep telling stories of decolonizing anything, somethings, everything!
I liked a paper shared on Twitter yesterday. It focused on why decolonizing geosciences mattered. I loved everything I read that I felt it was critical to keep some. The fact that we have been told that certain ways of knowing and doing are superior resonated deeply with me. That and the fact that for…
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Keep embracing failure!
Writing grants has taught me how to fail 30 times. I look forward to the 31st time. Counting failures is something I do now. Something I embrace too. The hurdles or the joy. The writing. The waiting. The bearing witness to, how things we believe in crumble, for lack of funding. And I have believed…
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Keep words.
Words sustain me. They open me. To hope, to love, to light. The universe sends them. I receive them. They sustain me. So I sustain you. Open you too. To hope, to heal, to light. Keep words.
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Keep ‘I am her tribe!’
Danielle Doby has a beautiful book worth keeping. It’s simple invitation, ‘come as you are’ is quite simply sterling. I am coming. I am coming into a space that allows me to choose in the name of my heart. I am all for a space in praise of my younger self’s quest for life’s light.…
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Keep your seasons, keep your reasons!
I am in my own season, at last. With my own reasons, for me. They call this the age of reason, I laugh. This isn’t a silly season. I know. Just my own season, for me. With my own reasons, at last
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Keep lions telling stories of injustices with this pandemic!
With history, be prepared to construct and reconstruct it from a different perspective, a Black perspective, an African perspective too. Our stories have been told to us by others for far too long that this time, the lions are ready to take the stage. The complexities and racist histories of colonialism is finally taking center…
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Keep the power of unexpressed love with grief!
Grief is love unexpressed. I learnt that today watching an Instagram video of Andrew Garfield as he talked about the passing of his mom. To him, grief is a beautiful thing. Grief is also unexpressed love. He hoped his grief will remain with him as he never got time to express all the love even…
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Keep the serious matter of being together!
Words call us, we go. A blurry thought, uncertain notes, hopelessly we stroll until meaning becomes clear, becomes us. Today we sat patiently trying to wait for words to come. It took a while. Children were crying. Hearts were weary but souls were full from a reunion a pandemic almost denied. We waited for the…
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Keep simple words this Thanksgiving!
Simple words are all we need to touch each other. To feel, to wonder, to love all that makes us whole. I am learning the power of simple. The power of soft words, like velvet gently brushed across my skin. The power of inclusive words too that wrap us all together like a fuzzy blanket…
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Keep Cool Cuts!
I like cool cuts. It’s a wholesome read for my girl, boys and I. For when black boys and black girls let their stars shine, no matter how hard the test, the world will be theirs and it will be awesome. Their cool cuts will lead the way too.
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Keep flowing like rivers, loving like quilts!
Nikki Giovanni has a poem called quilts. I read it in her poems and prose book ‘Make me Rain.’ The title first of all is a blessing in disguise, for those hungry to let words flow like raindrops on a cloudy day. Quilts as described by Ms Giovanni to me is like a fast-flowing river.…
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Keep the public in public health in mind!
Dr. Milton Terris was an outspoken advocate for progressive Public Health Policy. See this article about him here. But briefly, ‘throughout his career, Terris was always an active and dedicated member of American Public Health Association (APHA): he served as secretary of APHA’s Medical Care Section from 1948 to 1952, a member of the section’s…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 