Questions I learn from Mariame Kaba and Joseph Pierce and Christina Sharpe: What invitations are you issuing? What spaces are you creating? How are you building good relations? How are you working across difference? How are you sounding a note of care? How are you pursuing freedom?

Too much has been made of origins. All origins are arbitrary. This is not to say that they are not also nurturing, but they are essentially coercive and indifferent. —Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return

(“Eduardo, I love your books because you write like a woman. - sandra cisneros to eduardo galeano)

The threat itself is an impeachable offense. Don’t let it slide.

Judith Butler has a recent moment when they talk about gender as a lifelong project, as happening across a life, and mentions how new gendered possibilities make different kinds of legibilities and choices available. This is also true of sexual practices. What we like changes. And should.

a reminder by Polo Moji, "if our knowledge of the world is mediated by presence of language, how does naming the production, circulation and reproduction of a heteropatriarchal fluency render the ordinary violence, to which feminised bodies are subjected, visible?"

(“and it was comforting to find that what was common could also be a flower.”)

Five women authors I’ve read at least five books by: Pumla Dineo Gqola bell hooks Audre Lorde Toni Morrison Dionne Brand

(reading ngwatilo’s rituals at the lake to my lover across the distance)

'They killed his son. They bombed his hospital. They blocked the supplies he used to treat children screaming in pain. But he wouldn’t stop saving lives – until Israeli forces imprisoned and reportedly tortured him.' secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81