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“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.” -Audre Lorde The words Black people use to make tangible and share in awe at…
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I ended the essay Abolition, Tory Lanez & Meg thee Stallion: Whenever a Black woman is the victim of abuse at the hands of a man, no matter what the…
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I am a Black woman, a defense attorney, and an abolitionist. Those things don’t conflict, but during the trial against Tory Lanez, as someone who was…
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America practices a politic of distraction by condemning parts so that it can preserve the whole. Political fetch if you will. Focus your ire on police…
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There is nothing new, revolutionary, legitimate, or nuanced about racism, white supremacy, white nationalism, and everything in between. The same is…
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A society doesn’t end up with a massive prison industrial complex if that society isn’t on some level, invested in the punitive beliefs that uphold it…
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If you are fighting against systemic racism in white America, you must always remember that “there are no new pains.” Otherwise, you’ll be discouraged…
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Every Black person navigating white America knows there’s always the opportunity to betray the Black community and your own principles in exchange for…
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