Last month, I facilitated a writing workshop on spirituality and struggle for Black August. I was thrilled to discuss Assata’s introduction to and engagement with African Traditional Religions while in Cuba. Assata taught us that struggle is spiritual. open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

Looking forward to facilitating “Spirit, Struggle, and the Word: Writing Through the Spiritual and Political for Black August” this Saturday 8/30. There’s still time for you to register to join virtually or in-person: bit.ly/WriteforBlac...

On Aug. 30th, I’m teaching a hybrid workshop linking the spiritual + political for #BlackAugust w/ EndState ATL + @decolonialfc.bsky.social! We will consider what political prisoners can teach us about spiritual discipline and dedication? Register: bit.ly/WriteforBlac...

My latest examining how Lorde’s revolutionary vision of care was transformed into neoliberal “self(ish) care” — and what we can learn from her friendship with Andaiye. open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

In Gaza, the journalist has become a direct target. Carrying a camera here is like wearing a mark on your forehead that reads, “Kill me.” In a new op-ed, Shaimaa Eid honors Anas, Mohammed, & their 240+ companions of truth, killed by the Israeli military since the most recent genocide in Gaza began.

I've always seen motherhood as political work. This interview with Black Agenda Report for their "Reflections on Parenting and Revolutionary Struggle" series was published on this day last year. www.blackagendareport.com/reflections-...

If you missed my workshop “Confronting Reproductive Imperialism: Criminalization, Cop Cities, + the Transnational Fight for Reproductive Justice” earlier this year, it’s not too late to check it out! There have been so many great ones! $ goes to the sameer project, and you might learn something new!

Happy birthday to the brilliant, June Jordan 💕

recognize that "colleagues" that enable and defer to agents of mass suffering are themselves agents of mass suffering.

“Even before the administration’s cuts to programs designed to help the nation address the disease, studies have shown that Black Americans with long COVID encounter significant disparities in health care when compared to their white counterparts.” capitalbnews.org/black-americ...

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

“Notably, surveillance cameras are most common in racially diverse neighborhoods experiencing an influx of white residents, suggesting that white householders are instituting this means of social control as they move into or gentrify non-white neighborhoods.”

Have y’all registered for this upcoming Fund Abortion Not War workshop hosted by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social?! The money raised will go to the Sameer Project providing on the ground support to Palestinians. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/fun...

New on my substack: “Spirituality is Not a Substitute for Study: African Spiritual Traditions and the Necessity of Revolutionary Theory” open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

GoFundMe is accused of unfair restrictions and financial freezes on Palestinian aid fundraisers.

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Just added to YouTube from earlier this year, “Who Cares? Racial Capitalism, Social Reproduction, and Collective Entanglement” for New Economy Coalition’s “Care for the People” series: youtu.be/7Q1d070m2Q0?...

It’s literally the only thing that does.

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

“A Pan-African Movement divorced from statecraft and patriarchal politics. Only then would Africa breathe life into the symbolic date of May 25-African Liberation Day.” — Sylvia Tamale African Liberation Day 🫡 2/2

“The decolonization agenda and decolonial politics are closely bound up with the Pan-African one. Therefore, if Africa is ever going to realize its liberatory vision, it must consciously revitalize Pan-African nationalism outside state structures and mainstream institutions…” 1/

NIH recently found 1 in 22 ppl who’d had Covid developed ME/CFS. The “mild” form of that disease, as @julialmv.bsky.social’s graph shows, means losing capacity to do 50% of your daily activities. What would you give up? Friends? Time w/your kids? Could you cut work hours in half w/o losing yr job?

I wrote about the erosion of reliable COVID data last year for @prismreports.org , and unfortunately the problem has only gotten worse under the new administration. prismreports.org/2024/08/06/c...

It’s my birthday and I started a substack. Check out my first post where I share a short reflection on 32 which was all about death and rebirth. Read and subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

It’s okay to change your mind.

Are you a journalist/editor/media maker who wants to align your work with liberation movements? Applications for our next Reflective Journalism Project workshop are open now! 🌼 Apply by April 18 🌷 Sliding scale & scholarships available 🌹 More info here ⤵️ prismreports.org/reflective-j...

NEW WORKSHOP!! April 24, "Representations, Erasures, and Impacts: Thinking with Disability and Archives" with Gracen Brilmyer. To benefit the Sameer Project's Refaat Alareer Camp. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/thi...

There are too many people in the US arguing that they want others abroad to be massacred and destroyed by an administration they feel is “responsible” enough to massacre and destroy.

“…We live in a part of the world, for example, that equates criticism with assault, that equates social responsibility with naive idealism, that defines the unrelenting pursuit of knowledge and wisdom as fanaticism.”

“There are so few truth-speaking traditions in this society in which the myth of "Western civilization" has claimed the allegiance of so many. We have rarely been encouraged and equipped to appreciate the fact that the truth works, that it releases the Spirit, and that it is a joyous thing.”

Today we honor the life and legacy of Toni Cade Bambara-a revolutionary Black feminist, mother, filmmaker, and scholar-activist. We give thanks for her many contributions, courage, and foresight✨

Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free." - For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza. 23 and he knew to leave a death note.

Before the onset of the COVID pandemic, I truly did not appreciate how attached many USians are to dining out as a status symbol.

My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow. I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws. But her name was Haley.

Fascists don’t care about fairness, elections, legality, and morality. They have power and they will use it to do as they please. Let go of all these moderate stances about rules and civility. We’re way past the time for that.

If the state isn’t even respecting its own legality to exercise violence against us, then no point in trying to overuse it as a defense mechanism. Wrong is wrong because we should protect our people by any means, not because authorities broke their own rules.

Look, what’s happening at Columbia is awful and we need to fight it. But we also need to decenter elite schools. Bulwarks against fascism are not built in the halls of the Ivy league. These schools, by design, enforce the inequalities that got us here. Commit to public goods and public works.

This week, I look forward to speaking/performing as the 2025 Fred Wilson Lecturer in Global Black Studies at Purchase College and the Neuberger Museum of Art! I am especially thankful for the support of Professor Shaka McGlotten, and the programs in Global Black Studies and Media Studies.

Can we get 50 followers to donate $21 to Sameer Project’a campaign to get diapers to babies in the South today? Pls link your receipt below! chuffed.org/project/1132...

There’s an affective thing in talking to elders when they’re being honest: they’ll tell you the worst story you’ve ever heard and they’ll be morose and reflective, and moments later laughing about something else. And it’s a rollercoaster of fullness that usefully frames traumatic history.

Care is complicated, gendered, misused. It is often mobilized to enact violence, not assuage it, yet I cannot surrender it. I want acts and accounts of care as shared and distributed risk, as mass refusals of the unbearable life, as total rejections of the dead future— @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

Pulled a card after attending. I asked what she wanted me to know, and she came flying out! Wanted me to know that she’s with me 😭

Co-sign! I used to think “yeah, yeah, yeah,” but it’s…true 🥲

IMO, "wellness" is territory that had been long-ceded to grifters & eugenicists

Efforts to paint the moments we're in as “anti-American” while romanticizing US history and its foundations do not dig us out of fascism; they dig us deeper in. Tell the truth about how this country came to be and what it is now, or expect more problems.

You can’t reimagine no fuckin American flag. We’ve been through this.

Thinking about Afrikaners (smh) but actually thinking about the white American insistence on framing the post-colonial white settler as perpetually imperiled in stark opposition to their material and political economic conditions/realities. The foundational anxiety of the settler international.

Y’all need to get a grip. Guantanamo prison camp has been around for a long time and used at first to house Haitian asylum seekers and later victims of the fascist “Global war of terror”. Do y’all remember what the place looked like in the 1990?!! Trump is just building on bipartisan fascism.