Tag: academia
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Keep the night air!
The night air this Monday night stirs up new feelings within me. Call it nervousness, uncertain feelings, wishing to hide underneath a blanket and wait for Wednesday night to come, when this restless hunger will fade into the night like a rapture. In search of synergy, I move with my baby, who darts in and…
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Keep being rooted!
Being rooted in all I do is free. I know my roots. I know my struggles too. I have lived through their lessons. Freedom takes a long time. With despair and fear, and a sprinkling of failure buried deep within. I have seen darkness of what it means to work. Roots buried deep only know…
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Keep ambition with global health!
Ambition to me is tied to what Ngugi wa Thiongo once described as a ‘quest for relevance.’ It is a search for a liberating perspective within which to see ourselves clearly in relationship to ourselves and to the other selves in the universe. He would go on to suggest that this question depends on the…
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Keep nothing for youth without youth!
I have taken plenty short trips in life. But few are as unforgettable as the past 4 days in Lagos. Imagine arriving to blue skies. No soon after we arrived, even after all the chaos we encountered at the airport, I arrived to skies perfect and blue. I entered Lagos too with clarity. Day after…
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Keep leading!
To lead, when one has never led, is courageous. Risky and daring, but with courage. To see it’s outcomes, it’s possibilities, so rich, is divine. To know that I lead this, keeps me on my knees. I am nothing but the grace of God and so full of thanks today for the risk, for daring…
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Keep young people!
April 8th The scene was full of brilliance. Young people answering to their names. They see their light. They know their season too. This is it. See them rise, past all expected. Entering their destiny without error. Standing in rooms they own. Full of grace for all they know. Blooming on their own, like a…
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Keep rest
I am overwhelmed and tired. Trying to stay focused but exhausted. I feel like I am running a race that never ends. I want it to end, but I keep running. There will be days like this I am told. Today is one of those days, I see. Nothing brilliant to say expect that all…
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Keep blooming in Spring like Callery Pear Tree!
I hear you are very persistent. Prone to reinvade even when removed. I hear you are highly resilient. Thick dense branches push out others who compete with you for water, soil, space, sun. I hear some call you invasive. Birds love your fruit, spread your seeds and you rise up unbidden again. But I see…
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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 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 charting a burst of light with science/public health writing.
How might we make scientific writing inclusive? How might it move beyond its style and form, beyond its static blueprint to adapt to lives that are constantly changing? How can we speak of advancing racial and ethnic equity in science, health or medicine, if we continue to court tools and language that remain colonized? How…
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Keep knowing I’m not done yet!
As rough as the grains of garri. As smooth as the mold of eba. This collection of lists to keep. A collection of cares so deep. Unclear what I’m doing. But doing so with clarity. Honest, honesty. Of life as a mother. Life as a health researcher too. All in a time of a pandemic.…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 