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Keep beautiful blackbird!
Read more: Keep beautiful blackbird!These words are just one to keep. ‘Black stands out best of all. Black is the most beautiful. Our body gleam all colors in the sun. Black is the most beautiful one.’ They are not mine. They belong to the late great Ashley Bryan. We read his book Beautiful Blackbird tonight. It’s a story about…
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Keep failure!
Read more: Keep failure!When you have so very far to go, like miles to go, do not be afraid to fail. No one who has ever dreamed, has ever set aside the possibilities of failure. Like a third eye, failure is always lurking around, always inclined to teach a lesson. Be firm still and know it’s going to…
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Keep community engaged conversations!
Read more: Keep community engaged conversations!Audre Lorde has a litany for survival. ‘For those standing upon the constant edge of decisions crucial and alone…When the sun rises we are afraid it will not remain. When the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning…when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor…
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Keep oppressors language in mind!
Read more: Keep oppressors language in mind!‘My mouth is burning. I cannot touch you and this is the oppressor’s language.’ Adrienne Rich. I need to reach you with words. To make words that I use touch whatever site of joy or suffering you find yourself in. I find myself doing so with language that isn’t mine. Language that may not touch…
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Keep women!
Read more: Keep women!Imagine being with women. Some as radiant as stars. Yet everyone different, with their own stories and testament. Eyes staring at each other, like a mirror. The strength unknown. The gift of opening. The tears that flow. From deep within. A space we let go. Like fruits falling. We let go and cry. The crying.…
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Keep knowing that which is in you is lit for them!
Read more: Keep knowing that which is in you is lit for them!Call it dismissal. Call it ignorance. Call it visible invisibility. Call it being black and female in academia too. But know that your straight up sharp, single handled ignorance of my light, whatever you choose to call it, will not provoke this fire burning within. Not when we are legions. We are not bent or…
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Keep memories of my papa!
Read more: Keep memories of my papa!Through the eyes of our children, you continue. I see you, flickering your hair, smiling back, knowing that I know you live. You live. March 6th, 2009, we laid my father to rest. I think about him everyday. Anniversaries hit differently to. I wish he was alive. But these days, I am seeing through my…
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Keep sound meditations!
Read more: Keep sound meditations!I went on a sound journey this evening. Something about sound meditation keeps drawing me in. I experienced it for the first time in person last week with Abigal and when she invited us to join her virtually, I couldn’t resist. See the past week has been extremely hectic, workwise. I have been in revision…
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Keep great women!
Read more: Keep great women!Like a vineyard that produces much fruit. Or like an olive branch that produce many olives. Like a bird escapes from a trap. Or like arrows in the hand of a warrior. Like a mountain which sits unmoved forever. Or like mighty streams in dry desert. So shall it be for a woman whose crown…
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Keep the legacy of Mary Turner!
Read more: Keep the legacy of Mary Turner!They called her Mary. 19 years old Mary. I imagine she was happy. Pregnant and happy. Preparing for new life. Until, the life she knew was lynched. Killed, before they could experience, new life together. I imagine she was wild. Death will make anyone wild. She feared nothing. Feared no one. Prepared to live. Ready…
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Keep ambitious mothers!
Read more: Keep ambitious mothers!Since the pandemic began, many mothers, myself included, have been following unknowingly, dominant narratives of how mothers are languishing. Last week, I discovered for myself another story never told. It was at the first Ambitious Mothers summit held in Paradise Valley by my dear friend Ronke Faleti. The woman who arrived at the summit the…
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Keep peace!
Read more: Keep peace!I retreated from the world this week. I retreated to find peace and rest. Upon my return, the infinity of chaos, pandemic lessons in vain, the fate of humanity, a cloud of gloom, piercing dark skies unimaginable reality, for old and young all have me at loss for words. Even now, Nothing, can describe, why…
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