Black, Body, Family, Personal Narrative

Body Stories: Mirror, Falling, Shaking

I have to admit that, like many Black people, the murder trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin took me out of my groove, broke my productive stride. The anxiety related to the verdict and the trial’s cultural, historical, and global implications notwithstanding, my anxiety was mostly related to seeing the depictions of George… Continue reading Body Stories: Mirror, Falling, Shaking

Black, Racism, Scholarship, Terms and Definitions, White Supremacy

The H-TOMB Goes Boom!!!

So, real talk, I can save you from what you may perceive as “the trouble” of reading what’s ahead in the next few paragraphs by first offering a paraphrase: the USA’s dominant ideology is white supremacy and is enacted by and to protect the interests of male white embodied people and then those interests of… Continue reading The H-TOMB Goes Boom!!!