We can’t keep saying we want liberation while enforcing the same colonial rules that silence people.
I’ve lost count of how many times people have wondered if I am truly a nurse leader looking the way I look and if I really show up that way without hiding.
They wonder how I get away with... See more
As for making sense of the world and what’s happening, I don’t think it’s a matter of focusing on those things , but trying to get a sense of what is in between those things. Less attention to the individual pictures on the TV set, and more attention to what is happening on the ground. It has less to do with the news stories we may not be able to... See more
Rage isn’t a failure of regulation.It isn’t proof you’re broken. It’s proof you’re alive.
This culture rewards compliance and calls it calm. But for those of us navigating oppression, trauma, and erasure, calm has never been the full story.
Sometimes rage is what keeps our relationships... See more
History written by the victors offers glimpses of marginalized figures, for whom we need to “fabulate” stories to “strain against the limits of the archive” and “represent lives… through the process of narration.” Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too.
Effectiveness is always contingent on the desired effect.
The effects we're least likely to examine closely are often those that perpetuate the status quo or serve interests other than our own.
When a woman who's been socialized within diet culture asks another woman who's been socialized within diet culture if a workout is effective, there's a good... See more
White people, particularly wealthy white men have had access to therapy and mental health treatment for over 300 years. It was de-stigmatized for them before Black people even had legal access to mental healthcare. Meanwhile, Black people have only had mainstream, de-stigmatized access for about 20-30 years.
This means... See more