Apr 21, 20181 min readDig This NowAs we prepare for Black Space Agency Youth Housing Visioning Session on April 22, 2018 with Youth HEALers, we reflect on the all but...
Mar 2, 20174 min readNorth Philly Event RetrocurrencesSleep was non-existent that night. I thought they were under my bed. I thought they would come back. I had trouble walking through the...
Nov 25, 20161 min readReading the Intern Minutes, Part I: A SonnetSomething about the forest makes a girl wanna shoot at something, hold a loaded gun in her hand. Start a fire with the flick of a...
Aug 25, 20162 min readReclaiming Roots and Space(s)The first time I stepped into North Philly proper, I think I was 14. A couple blocks away from Sharswood, at Murrell Dobbins CTE. I took...
Jul 30, 20162 min readUnburning/Unburying North PhillyPhiladelphia is built on the ruins of the decades prior. When you dig into the ground you dig straight into houses collapsed into their...
Jul 17, 20164 min readPoetic Meditations: Writing Self Into Time, Into Home - Part IWriting often feels like a self-mutilating act. A conscious opening of wounds. An open surrender. I imagine Audre Lorde. Toni Morrison....