by Monica A. Coleman | Jul 2, 2020 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
Choosing favorite books in one’s field is like asking who your favorite friends are. Good books change my perspective and – at times – transform my soul. Still, I’ve put together a short list of books I like to teach over and over again. Sisters in the Wilderness by...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jun 13, 2020 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
No one is coming to save us! We have to save ourselves. Tananarive Due and I are talking about strategies for surviving and thriving during this hectic times. Inspired by the work of Afrofuturist Octavia E. Butler, we talk about our seven step process for shaping...
by Monica A. Coleman | May 23, 2020 | Media
So Deepak Chopra called. Well not exactly. But I am deeply honored to be included in the Never Alone Summit: a 3 Day Mental Health Summit sponsored by a joint venture of The John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation and the NeverAlone suicide prevention initiative at...
by Monica A. Coleman | May 21, 2020 | Media
Dr. Mitzi Smith is creating lively conversations on womanist approaches to religion. I was honored to be one of the speakers on the topic: Womanist Self-Care and Mental Health as Political Acts in a Pandemic. You can catch the recording here.
by Monica A. Coleman | May 3, 2020 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
In national quarantine and sheltering-in-place or is it “safer-at-home,” all I could think about was that we were living in a scene from the late Afrofuturist writer Octavia Butler’s book Parable of the Sower. So I texted my friend, Afrofuturist...
