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Tuesday Nov. 15, 2016  6pm Eastern Register here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-kakuya-collective-visionary-daughtering-tickets-29081078288 They wanted Assata Shakur to spend the rest of he...

https://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/2016/11/02/kakuya-collective-a-visionary-daughtering-webinar/

Last night a trans-atlantic group of self-identified black woman, femme and/or gender-non conforming survivors gathered digitally for My Name is My Own, a resilience and renewal session. Guided ...

https://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/my-name-is-my-own-black-survivors-releasing-and-reclaiming/

Last week as everyone was reminded again of the urgency of our political, creative and intellectual work at this time, a group of us went underwater to hear the voices of our ancestors whose war...

https://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/beyond-and-across-ancestor-accountable-poems/

“…some days we just cannot we cannot live here we cannot give our babies to this world that eats our bones like centuries of salt.” -from Heavy Swimmers for Ebony Wilkerson who tried to dri...

https://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/heavy-swimmers-for-ebony-wilkerson/

Last night a hopeful, anxious, heavy, urgent, connected, inspired group of artists, writers, scholars and teachers gathered to collectively tap into the legacy of June Jordan and Audre Lorde as w...

https://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/2016/07/15/nobody-mean-more-to-us-every-time-artistsscholarsteachers-responding-to-police-violence/

For the past three days I have had the healing, transforming, invigorating honor of facilitating 9 black and brown femmes (including myself) in a love-filled intensive inspired by our recent ance...

https://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/i-love-my-own-blessings-and-affirmations-from-the-free-enterprise-writers/

Breathe Underwater: A Baptismal Intensive for Ancestor Accountable Artists, Activists and Scholars  July 25, 26, 27  3pm to 5:30pm Eastern. There is so much to react to in this moment.  The me...

https://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/breathe-underwater-a-baptismal-intensive-for-ancestor-accountable-artists-activists-and-scholars/

We are out in the streets.  We out of words to describe this.  We are walking in circles.  We are out of our minds. We are out of our bodies.  We are everywhere.  And we are nobody.  And it...

https://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/nobody-mean-more-to-me-than-you-one-night-webinar-on-impossible-solidarities/

This past Thursday I was blessed to spend a morning with the brilliant young activists at North Carolina’s Youth Organizing Institute Freedom School.   In the wake of horrifying violence by p...

https://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/we-slaywe-stay-science-fiction-haikus-from-nc-yois-freedom-school/

Last night in honor of Michelle Cliff about 20 self-identified flamboyant writers gathered to honor her legacy by writing our love in fire.  We are taught by Michelle Cliff that the work of lov...

https://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/and-i-will-the-flamboyance-of-accountable-writers/