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.
19| a manifesto: dear internet friends, I’m burning alive. [2023]
An open letter to everyone exhausted by the thought of tomorrow.
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?