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Written by the Collective – Woven, Performed and Produced by Samara Gaev Listen to the audio version In October, our collective gathered in a cabin in the woods of Vermont, to vision, to reflect, and to create together as the…

by Delma Jackson III I’ve tried to write this piece multiple times since the election. I don’t know if this is the piece you need right now, reader, but it’s the one I needed to write. If you’re not a…

by Delma Jackson III “It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their…

I am nursing my 6 month old daughter as I write this. Her breath slows as our nervous systems co-regulate. I pray she doesn’t feel the shattering of my heart from the ricochettes of grief I’ve somatized from mothers everywhere….

Let us all dream collectively. Let us love and fight together. Let us dream beyond integration, beyond hegemony, beyond all the dichotomies that have come before us.

My father (Rest In Power) was fond of the adage, “hindsight is 20/20.” This time of year, the legacy of Martin Luther King often comes to mind in connection to that phrase…. People sometimes wonder what they’d do during some…

Dear friends, family, and beloved community of change-makers,As I write this final email of the year I am recovering from COVID. A fitting close to a ridiculously difficult year. Things have not gone as I had hoped and planned. I…

DEI work rarely asks white people to embrace their full humanity— humiliation, fear, frustration, and/or fury. These processes are designed to allow a psychological distance–an internal safe-space wherein silence and a sign-in sheet co-conspire to convey completion without confession, conscious…

THIS is when and how my intersecting interests in social justice, pop-culture, current events, and historical context creates an infuriatingly complex stew in the very soul of my bone marrow. This is when the questions come up that have no…

In light of this year’s MLK Day and the recent terror attacks on the Capitol, I thought I would continue in the tradition of Tubman, Baldwin, Hamer, and King. I thought I would offer an honest observation of the nation…