Information Anarchy: The Case Against Sponsorships
What is information anarchy? Why is ad-free education of the utmost importance? In which Ismatu Gwendolyn, influencer (gag) and perpetual student, decides not to sell their word.
Mutual Aid is Mutual! Recap + Readings
A summary of the Mutual Lemonade Series + list of external resources
Revolutionary Healers: A Syllabus
In which Ismatu Gwendolyn, new to the healing profession and rooting in revolutionary thought and action, provides structure for their studies in public.
Revolutionary Love costs you something.
Notes on refusing to charge for client services.
Therapists Are Also the Police: Sex Work, Social Work, and the Politics of Deservingness
Alternatively titled, “Reasons I Have No Desire to Get Licensure as a Clinical Therapist.”
There is no safety in being Beautiful: reflections from a life spent On Display (™)
A child model turned grad-school stripper talks openly about the reality of being shackled to Beauty and the negotiations a life of Beauty investment necessitates.
Reproductive justice is economic justice.
We owe the children of this world, including our childhood selves, lasting reproductive justice.
Poverty is an intentional genocide.
Ismatu Gwendolyn, clinical social worker and former impoverished child, doubles down on the ugly (and obvious) truth of why poverty exists in the first place.
notes on afro-pessimism 101
notes from the live on Saturday attached to this email!
Beauty Talk: the Jezebel, the Mammy, and the third gender of "Black woman."
Chapter one review of Deborah Gray White's "Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South" with the question: what makes us so attached to Beauty when it was designed to suffocate us?