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The Tao of Marley (After Pooh)
Returning to the THIRD SPACE.
Oct 22, 2025
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What I See Delights Me
What I learned from a summer spent with Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, the archive, and the art of remembering.
Aug 26, 2025
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The Grammar of Being Seen
A Meditation in Five Pantoums
Aug 14, 2025
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Second Sunrise: What Ralph Lauren’s Vineyard Misses About Ours
"I am the source of my joy and infinite possibilities."
Aug 4, 2025
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A Curriculum in Collapse: The 4 C’s of Empire
How censorship, cowardice, capitalism, and colonial nostalgia are schooling us all
Jul 24, 2025
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In Search of a Black Hole Sun
On alt-Black girlhood, moshing as ritual, and the sound that raised me.
Jul 16, 2025
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Black Like You—The Performance
Two poems tracing the rhythm of memory across oceans
Jul 8, 2025
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BLACK LIKE YOU—ZION
On Haile Selassie, Bob Marley, and the Dream of Return”
Jul 8, 2025
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THE COST OF COOL
On Do the Right Thing, THIRD SPACES, shade equity, and why Black communities are still fighting for air—literally and politically.
Jul 1, 2025
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Too Grown to Breathe, Too Young to Quit
When "Black Girl Magic" becomes too heavy to hold: on maturity, burnout, and the quiet longing to disappear.
Jun 24, 2025
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What Juneteenth Looks Like in My Hands
How collage helped me visualize the freedom they tried to erase.
Jun 19, 2025
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The Land They Forgot to Map, Part II: Drawing It Anew
Cape Verde wasn’t missing—just misrepresented. From Bela Duarte’s tapestries to Amílcar Cabral’s vision, I trace the art, memory, and resistance that…
Jun 18, 2025
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The Land They Forgot to Map
When colonial maps left Cape Verde blank, we stitched ourselves back into history.
Jun 16, 2025
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THE MUSEUM WAS NEVER NEUTRAL
Even in Ruin, We Bloom.
Jun 10, 2025
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