This powerful video was made by students at Asheville High School last month. Its byline is “spread love – not only this month, every month. to everyone.” The students wanted to show it at a school assembly to celebrate Black History Month. They were told they couldn’t because there was too much black power expressed […]
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Do You Know the Truth About Hawaii?
History Lesson: Using Race to Divide and Conquer
The poor are fighting for the benefit of the wealthy… and don’t realize it. Poor white folks getting suckered again and again, standing up for ideologies that actually go against their best interest and help protect the wealthy elite. Such as folks who may be losing their extended medicaid because of the new healthcare reform. […]
Social Emergency Response Centers (SERC)
Yes. Yes. Yes. THIS!
Asheville’s African American Community & Systemic Oppression
Keeping certain people invisible, not letting them speak for themselves, not letting them be a part of (or lead) important conversations that effect their future… This is oppression. This is racism. This is whiteness. This is white supremacy. If the words ‘whiteness’ or ‘white supremacy’ turn you off or make you feel uncomfortable, please look […]
Creativity is Essential
This morning I was feeling in my body the absence of creative projects that integrate my activism, anger, passion and imagination into creative outlets. I want theater, street art, creative video/photo/journalism projects, “meetings” where we don’t just talk but we enact and play with this BS in embodied ways, imagining creative solutions forward in non-linear […]
The Violence of Othering
After passing through customs, I regretted not talking to the many customs workers in bullet-proof vests, shepherding us through the process. I wondered if the vests were new for them. I wondered what questions I could have asked them to feel into the humanity with which they are doing their job. So much of my […]