Writing

Writing

I write about what we inherit, what we believe, what the evidence changes, and who we become when we are willing to look again.

My work moves through my thoughts, my memories, and my lived experience, asking what holds, what needs to be questioned, what changes when I look again, and what experience can teach me.

Essays

Carrying a Charge

We spend a lot of time asking what electronics can do to the human body. But what about the other direction?

September 2026

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Before You Ever Knew Her

What were you taught about her before you ever knew her? An essay about the assumptions Black women and girls inherit, repeat, and can choose to question.

September 2026

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From the Archive

Earlier forms. Ongoing questions.

Old notebooks, early questions, and fragments of writing show that many of the questions were taking shape long before they had names.

The archive is not presented as proof that every idea was fully formed. It shows continuity: the instinct to notice, question, record, and return.

From the Archive
Archive books and earlier writing materials

What I keep returning to.

Inheritance

What do we carry forward before we have chosen it?

Belief & evidence

What changes when experience asks belief to answer back?

Becoming

Who are we when change makes the old version of us insufficient?

Community & power

What becomes possible when ordinary people organize and act together?

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New essays and selected reflections will be added here as they are published.

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