Kechi Ladapo

I'm hopeful that as the world spins faster,

Sublime will help us stay grounded.

Sublime isn't about productivity

it's about clarity.

Welcome!Hi love, my name is Ayana Zaire Cotton.I’m an artist, learner, writer, software engineer, and founder of Seeda School, a skill building platform for learning how to worldbuild through a black feminist lens.

I now think of myself as a writer. I didn't realize it on my own though. It was after Sula was published; I was talking to my editor (Robert Gottlieb of Knopf) one day, and he said, "This is what you are going to be when you grow up. This is it." I said, "A writer?" He said, "That's right. Of all those other little things you do, this is it. This... See more

When you find a good article or essay, crawl its bibliography. Bibliographies are treasure maps. Follow the names. Follow the hyperlinks. Find the one-line citation that leads to a whole new rabbit hole. Some of the most insightful articles I’ve read were ones I found three clicks away from where I started.