I’ve Been Thinking A Lot About This, and it’s Come to My Attention, Collective Change is Power — Years ago I got a dozen messages from Allison Wiltz, “Come join us,” “Join this space, you’ll love it.” There were some growing pains at first, some things I didn’t understand, some things I didn’t like, and I lashed out and made myself clear. We needed to do something together…

From Nada Chehade Comes Haram AF, I’m Just Following Suit — Blasphemy laws punish people who make oral or written statements that are understood to express irreverence for sacred things. Long a feature of English and colonial societies and still prominent in some theocratic regimes, laws against blasphemy have disappeared in the United States because of the First Amendment. …

Black Death Is Clearly Entertaining To White Supremacists, And That’s How We Know Our Lives Matter — 1 Million dollars. That’s how much Daniel Penny was able to raise after he was charged with the death of Jordan Neely. A man was thirsty. A man was hungry. A man was scared. A man was asking for help the only way he fucking knew how. A man was…

Thomas Was the First Train Engine I Read About Growing Up — The first story I remember from being a child is the one of Thomas the Tank Engine. He’s the same engine that had to make it up a hill and kept working at it until he did it. The famous line “I think I can, I think I can, I…

Books Are Being Banned Everywhere. Get Yours Before It’s Too Late — When WEOC — Writers and Editors of Color — First started to gather one of the things on the top of our minds was creating a community around activism as well as the love of the written word. All of us — 138 and climbing — are passionate about the…

You’re In A Tunnel, You See Nothing Ahead of You But Light, Nothing Behind But Shadow, Nothing Beside You But Brick…Where are You Going? — Fall Down. Get up. Hurt yourself, bandage the wound, and keep moving. That’s the mode I am in right now. Some say this is survival mode, doing the next right thing until you can breathe, but I can’t breathe. …

I Didn’t Know What They Meant Either, But Now That I Do I can Help Ease Some of the Tension — Many people have definitions for words that have been created, but what you think the word means, doesn’t necessarily mean you are correct. This can be confusing for some folks — specifically uneducated white folk — who think that everything we say is a slight against them. But the truth…

As A Teacher, it’s Not My Job To Hate You, It’s My Job To Teach You To Do Better — Stephen was the first person to tell me that I had become a teacher. I was as surprised as anyone. …

I Asked This Question Today and Here is What I Learned — “If I have to tell you, not all white people, you aren’t mature enough to read my writing.” ~ Allison Wiltz I have been a writer for as long as I can remember. It started with my best friend forever, Barrie Hall, a white man from Newfoundland. …