02/03/2026
In 2007 I began my study of Black Feminist Theory and was introduced to the most brilliant thinkers, radicals, and activists of our time.
These women in particular, bell hooks (bottom left), Kimberlé Crenshaw (top left), Marsha P. Johnson (center right), Angela Davis (center left), and Audre Lorde (top right), gave me a language, a landscape, and frames thru which to see and understand my place in the world.
Their insight, clarity, and courage inspired me to organize, speak up, and stand with others on our path toward shared liberation.
Their resilience, vulnerability, and love for life, illuminates for me still, a hope and a pathway for a world free from oppression & violence.
Life under the current administration is often terrifying and enraging. Several times I have felt moved to post or share something that would amplify my fear or reinforce my rage - an act that might make me feel like I'm *doing* something rather than sitting frozen in front of the screen.
But I didn't post, or I would post and then delete.
And I've started to worry that people who know me, or who follow my work, might assume that my lack of visible outrage means that I approve of what's going on with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with the global child, human & sex-trafficking ring, and with the dehumanization of one another. Or worse, that I've fallen so deep into the realm of woo-woo spirituality that I've lost touch with current reality.
In truth, I feel more grounded and resolute than ever before. I know who I am and what I believe. I sit at the feet of these and many other Black Women who have been courageous enough to make visible everything that the rest of us have been made to ignore or deny. They hold a mirror to the system and invite us to look. To see ourselves within it, and with that awareness, to make ourselves responsible not only for dismantling it, but for transforming it for future generations to come.
