Kechi Ladapo

To read slowly, attentively, without agenda or distraction is to resist. Not with noise or spectacle, but with the quiet, deliberate force of contemplation. In an economy built on speed and stimulus, deep reading becomes an act of principled refusal. It defies the algorithm’s logic of efficiency, the newsfeed’s velocity, the platform’s hunger for... See more

There are no prerequisites or “qualifications” to teach what we know to be true beyond white supremacy culture, to offer what our community has told us they need, to share our skills and seeds of wisdom with the folks we dream of serving. We do so much work trying to convince ourselves we are worthy of our desires when, in fact, it is the systems... See more

“I am searching for that which is real of my heart, and which when completed I can stand humble to one side of and say: ‘This is it, this is how I feel, this is my honest interpretation of the world; this is not influenced by money, or trickery, or pressure...except the pressure of my soul.’”

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”