The Message Sent by the Attacks against Dr. Claudine Gay
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The Message Sent by the Attacks against Dr. Claudine Gay

When Dr. Claudine Gay resigned from the presidency of Harvard University, my phone lit up with phone call and texts. The callers and texters included Black women academics, Black professional women, Black male academics, and the like. Reeling with emotion from profound sadness to explosive anger, we had been watching a tried-and-true hallmark of American racial…

I’m Black Everyday or Why I don’t Celebrate Juneteenth
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I’m Black Everyday or Why I don’t Celebrate Juneteenth

I have a friend who asks me every year about what I’m doing for Black History Month. And I always reply: “Nothing, I’m Black every day.” And I mean it. I don’t celebrate Black History Month, but I am happy to be a part of celebrations of Black history – when they occur in February…

BLM + Mental Health + Memoir
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BLM + Mental Health + Memoir

July is BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month.  In 2008, mental health communities began recognizing July as Bebe Moore Campbell Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Campbell was an African American novelist and a fierce advocate for mental health awareness and treatment.  She wrote the wonderful children’s book Sometimes Mommy Gets Angry and the novel 72 Hour…

Saving Ourselves: Shaping Change Workshop
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Saving Ourselves: Shaping Change Workshop

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 change. Join us in the workshop!  For more information,…

Octavia Tried to Tell Us: Parable for Today’s Pandemic
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Octavia Tried to Tell Us: Parable for Today’s Pandemic

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 writer Tananarive Due and said: hey let’s do a webinar on this.  And this turned…