The Freedom Doctor Presents

10/09/2026

What’s your favorite Anne Carson book?

10/09/2026

I’m grateful for artistic taste.

Cooking is writing to me especially when I’m combining different cooking traditions.

Steak with a scotch bonnet garlic sauce and Dijon mustard spread, couscous with kale, and a cucumber and tomato salad sprinkled with salt and pepper and dashed with garlic dressing.

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On Artistic Taste and Black Gathering

Read black poets who have great artistic taste. Taste has more to do with how we and why appreciate the senses than separating our evaluation on that creation (preference). My great-grandma Rosenia would gather us around. We’d eat, dozens of us, together dance (e.g. I learned The Worm as a kid just to get on my cousins’ heads), read poems, sing, all a part of our family gathering talent shows. Food and art are the bright spots of my childhood and upbringing.

Art vocabulary to know: sensorium

Sample some of the poems below:

1. “Tuck” Kwame Dawes (Kwame Dawes )
2. “Ode to the Last Piece of Bread” by Rodrick Minor (Rodrick Minor )
3. “Childhood” by Aracelis Girmay (aracelisxgirmay )

10/09/2026

I’m grateful for artistic taste.

Cooking is writing to me especially when I’m combining different cooking traditions.

Steak with a scotch bonnet garlic sauce and Dijon mustard spread, couscous with kale, and a cucumber and tomato salad sprinkled with salt and pepper and dashed with garlic dressing.

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On Artistic Taste and Black Gathering

Read black poets who have great artistic taste. Taste has little more to do with how we and why appreciate the senses than separating our evaluation on that creation (preference). My great-grandma Rosenia would gather us around. We’d eat, dozens of us, together dance (e.g. I learned The Worm as a kid just to get on my cousins’ heads), read poems, sing, all a part of our family gathering talent shows. Food and art are the bright spots of my childhood and upbringing.

Art vocabulary to know: sensorium

Sample some of the poems below:

1. “Tuck” Kwame Dawes (Kwame Dawes )
2. “Ode to the Last Piece of Bread” by Rodrick Minor (Rodrick Minor )
3. “Childhood” by Aracelis Girmay

10/08/2026

10/04/2026

Same Difference by Don Mays (Don Mays ) was amazing!

09/04/2026

I have a few things I want to share with folks as my elders love, support, and make ways for me often remind me to share my journey with other people not for validation but to encourage people to walk in their gifts and go after the life that the Creator germinated in their heart when they were born.

I’m a community confirmed healer specifically with the gift of helping people see past the shroud of brokenness society has placed on them to lead them to a place of wholeness, healing, and help feel comfortable nurturing as a source of power. I am grateful to move toward situations, spaces, opportunities, and people that encourage that and to find this in Dads to Doulas.

Dads to Doulas (Dads to Doulas) is a program that promotes teaching black men to be better support systems for their partners and in the community generally to promote healthy births. As a future father, I’m grateful to join Cohort 7 of Dads to Doulas.

More about this organization in my post that contains a photo celebrating Dads to Doulas and part of its mission is below:

Dads to Doulas centers Black fathers as essential partners in maternal and infant health by providing education on pregnancy, labor and birth, postpartum support, infant care, advocacy, and navigating healthcare systems. The training is interactive, culturally grounded, and designed to build confidence, knowledge, and leadership among Black men.

I’m grateful to bring my background as a public health scientist with an expertise in women’s health and well-being to do this work supporting my brothers feel empowered in the birthing process and as a way I can bring my gift of community healing into this great space of need.

08/29/2026

So grateful to Abdulkareem Abdulkareem and Prosper Ifeanyi for including “Vignette in Tunica, Mississippi, 1978” in The New Anthology of Young African and African American Poetry (OlongoAfrica 2026). Shoutout to all the amazing poets in the collection especially Adedayo Agarau whose work I really adore. Shoutout to friends and mentors on earlier drafts of this and its future draft kindred (haha iykyk).

Featuring a new headshot by Jason Harris (Kimbilio Fiction 2026). Much love also to my Kimbees who are still on my mind! 💛

08/26/2026

My housing fell through for 9/1. So, I’m looking for a room in Providence around $850. Please reach out if you know of any leads.

08/23/2026

*A longer version of the ancestral activation webinar planned for tonight is being held during Hoodoo Heritage Month in October. Stay tuned for the dates by follow this page.*

In lieu of the webinar being held this evening, we’d like to put some information from the webinar in a slide deck form for you. Today is the Emancipation of Elizabeth Freeman— August 22, 1781.

In thinking about the Long Black August—those struggles of abolition, emancipation, sovereignty, resistance, and rebellion— Elizabeth Freeman deserves to be at the forefront of our discussions and veneration practices.

Elizabeth Freeman ear hustled her way to liberation.

She had the Gifts of Discretion and Discernment that emboldened her to act at the right time!

Will you raise a candle for her spiritual honor what we call veneration or Hoodoosainthood?

Comment 🕯️below if so!

ancestor veneration freedomsuit

08/23/2026

*A longer version of the ancestral activation webinar planned for tonight is being held during Hoodoo Heritage Month in October, dates TBD*

In lieu of the webinar being held this evening, we’d like to put some information from the webinar in a slide deck form for you. Today is the Emancipation of Elizabeth Freeman— August 22, 1781.

In thinking about the Long Black August—those struggles of abolition, emancipation, sovereignty, resistance, and rebellion— Elizabeth Freeman deserves to be at the forefront of our discussions and veneration practices.

Elizabeth Freeman ear hustled her way to liberation.

She had the Gifts of Discretion and Discernment.

Will you raise a candle for her spiritual honor what we call veneration or Hoodoosainthood?

Comment 🕯️below if so!

freedomsuit