We gonna be alright

i’m just over here, singing negro spirituals and communing with our ancestors, eating a big bucket of soulful dripping buttery popcorn–passing it all around, watching the birds fly above in the powdery blue sky, and feeling the sunlight caress our souls. talkinbout them white folks, and shaking our heads with slow deep knowledge. I know…

Silencing Tactics and You

Originally posted on The Bias:
Introduction Header image: “Silence” by Henry Burrows. CC BY-SAThere are few things in life more fraught than talking about what makes us who we are in public–and even more so if those things are also sources of oppression or marginalization. Something that often compounds that vulnerability are tactics designed to…