Category: Black Feminsim

Sacred Black Ecologies

Image credit: Plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) growing by a waterfall with two women resting beneath them. Coloured lithograph by J.B.Kidd, c.1840 (Wellcome Collection) ‘Sacred Black Ecologies,’  (a concept I coined), is a transoceanic framework, drawing on community co-production and artistic and scholarly collaboration which positions land, water, and plant life as living archives, temporal…

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Reconciliation: A Black Love Song (?)

Interlude Conflict is an act of intimacy It brings people together. Conflict are the loving bonds that didn’t get to meet. Conflict can be generative. Conflict can also be underpinned by the kyriarchy.   Verse One When Black people espouse radical love for one another this becomes a threat to white supremacy, capitalism and cis-hetero…

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Who does the work, whilst white people think about race?

The below piece of writing was originally intended as an email to my academic supervisors, but it is now a reflective essay about the impacts of whiteness within the academic and cultural sector .  Dear _____, _______ and ______, I have now entered the last year of my PhD program and my future beholds! During this…

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