Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

A few days ago, in another life, I mentioned that I was going to conduct an interview with myself over the course of the next year, in an effort to prise open some of my closed inner spaces.  It sounds kinda silly, I know, but I am curious to see how it turns out. Will [...]

Is how this 1985 article from the South African newspaper, The Star, begins. I know there were/are probably significant social, economic and other effects of changing colo(u)rs in apartheid South Africa, but still – this made me laugh. But if anything can point up the ridiculousness of racial classifications, this is it. I got this [...]

Was my great-grandfather, on my mother’s side (Margie, Marguerite, for fam.)  I’ve noticed a few people coming to this site from a search on his name, for whatever reason, so I thought I’d give little bit of basic, not particularly organized,  information on him. James Nathan was a contemporary of W. E. B. Dubois and [...]

Reclaiming the lucidity of our hearts by Sass Rogando Sasot (transcript; she speaks at about 3:00): Burned at stake. Strangled and hanged. Raped and shot and stabbed to death. Throats slashed. Left to bleed to death. These are just some of the ways transgender people were killed in different parts of the world, in different [...]

Well, I accomplished not one thing from my list of goals yesterday, but I’m neither sad nor sorry. (A distinct lack of guilt when I fail at something is one of my issues, I think.) Anyway, once I got all my goals out of my head and down on paper (sort of), that seemed to [...]

  PISTACHIOS – Kakenya from POCKO on Vimeo. via this is africa, via u got this love who says: A great (true) story about a Maasai girl trying to go above and beyond. Please check it out!! [An animation for Vital Voices, an organisation working globally for women’s independence. This film tells the childhood story [...]

Or, at least, calls to submit to anthologies and stuff. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: October 15, 2010 500 to 5,000 words – Tasha Fierce, of Red Vinyl Shoes, is putting together an anthology on body image for which she would like submissions from women of color. Occupied Bodies: Women of Color Speak on Self-Image I am soliciting essays [...]

This is a pretty amazing picture. I love the scene, I love the sky; they just don’t seem like they would go together. Togo is a narrow country sandwiched between the West African nations of Ghana and Benin. It was afflicted by the slave trade. The population fled inland. Today, some of their descendents sell [...]

I can’t view the video well, plus it’s easy for words to get lost, so here is a full transcript of what she said. I have removed the blockquotes because they make it more difficult for me, at least, to read and have instead cased Ms. Sherrod’s remarks in asterisks. It is obvious that someone [...]

Shirley Sherrod’s husband is Charles Sherrod. Yeah, that one. A SNCC organizer 0f the Albany Movement. Who was recently interviewed as part of the 50th anniversary of the SNCC. Talk about paying their dues. Who, along with Shirley, apparently was involved in a long-running court case involving Black farmers that was recently settled - which involvement REALLY has the [...]