Have you ever made felt? It is the process of taking animal fibers like wool and agitating them diligently with a needle. You pull and disrupt and push the thread against its grain.  This causes it to frizz, to fray, and to reach for itself. Enough hours of this and you find yourself with a paste-like fabric. What we had …

Dear Assetou, You are sitting in 2023 at the precipice of your move. You are so bold. New job. New apartment. New school. New region of the country. You are doing something brave and beautiful. I know you worry about loneliness—every move you’ve ever made landed you back in Denver because you were homesick and lonely. This is different. You …

My biggest problem is I don’t believe the concept of “in love”-Tobe Nwigwe “I Choose You” I loved singing along. When I read about relationship anarchy over a decade ago, I saw myself. This idea that relationships need no hierarchy and that labels often lead to unspoken expectations. I knew I loved wildly. I knew I wanted to be in …

We have healing to do,  on the individual,  communal  & collective fronts.    There has been some talk these days about  call in and call-out cultureI need you to know the difference.  Call-out is individualistic  colonial in nature   It rests on the colonizers’ “justice system” and seeks the binary of victim and perpetrator,  dehumanizing both in the process.    …