My Work.
February 2020
"If all my energy is spent trembling through my darkness and searching to find some beauty in it, am I really dealing with my trauma, or am I simply monetizing it?"
August 2020
"I could not in good faith write a piece to other light-skinned girls and women asking them to do better, without acknowledging that I too have been capable of this sort of violence."
October, 2020
"You can do a kindness or be kind without being nice. Kindness doesn’t require that you modulate your voice or adjust your tone. Often doing a kindness can come off as distinctly un-nice."
January, 2021
On political discourse, abolition, performative activism, and real love.
NPR INTERVIEW
STRANGE FRUIT: MUSINGS ON POLITICS, POP CULTURE, AND BLACK GAY LIFE
October, 2020
This week writer Leigh Green discusses her compelling op-ed, "White Supremacy in Me: Light-skinned and part of the problem," where she acknowledges the privileges associated with her skin tone, and challenges other light skin folk to begin the work of using their proximity to whiteness to disrupt an unjust system and spark a revolution.
October 2020
"You have nothing to prove. Sometimes, the best thing to do is walk away."
November 2020
Biden is infinitely better than Trump, but he’s far from the progressive victory we’d hoped for.
October 2020
Calories-in-calories-out is far from a perfect system.
October 2020
Why it's not going anywhere if we just stop talking about it.
March, 2020
"Your desire to play gatekeeper to the rights of others is ignorant and informed by patriarchal systems that you claim to disavow."
March, 2020
"Gal Gadot’s insensitive response to the harsh realities of COVID-19."
"It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society."
Andrea Gibson
