Author: brianlragsdale

A writer, thinker, dreamer, artist, musician, and psychologist. I write as a form of feeding my social justice heart, and as political revolutionary acts. In this creative sculpting, I seek to unite all of the pieces that were supposed to be lost, but were not, all of them were kept by me and I suppose my higher power. They live, and so if writing is an act of loving this means that my freedom, our freedom is near.

Collective Resistance and Freedom: Writing With An Intersectional Voice

As a person of color we often shoulder differing forms of existential violence, due to the pain of living in a white supremacist and racist society. This requires constant negotiations with trauma narratives and these negotiations often promote an environment of silence that is used as a way to avoid and marginalize our pain.

Blackness as Sunrise, Slurps, and Love.

I write about my blackness as a meditative practice.  A means of survival and celebration. To bring the foundational elements of myself, up and out, like water from a lawn sprinkler.  A blackness that disappears if you try to possess it, one that sits on your window sill like a quizzical sparrow.  A blackness that…

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Loving Blackness, Holding Global Space

“We begin by holding space for us to heal from the trauma and terror caused by these systems. We begin by holding space for the imagination to conjure up a different world, where we can invest in preventative measures …”