Kinship as a Catalyst for Social Activism & Community

.Reading time 3 minutes.

In September, I had the extreme opportunity to present at the 2019 Black Communities Conference with my sister Ashley Drakeford and my cousin Kyle Reeder on The Dinner Table at Canterbury Court: Kinship as a Catalyst for Social Activism & Community. The session focuses on our dinner conversations and our work in organizing around food […]

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Take Me to the Go-Gos

.Reading time 5 minutes.

If you’ve sat in a conversation with me for more than 30-minutes, at some point I’ve probably drifted into some ideas of afro-futurism; black people planning their future and preserving their history as radical acts of time-travel and time reclamation. As a practical matter. I constantly wrestle with how we ENSURE spaces for black people […]

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