A. Ward

"The truth is my sound."🚦Engineer 🌇 Planner 🎨 Creative | Passionate about people + justice. | HU Alum ♥️💙 | Views my own.

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

“Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you...Your very existence is wrapped up in the things you are here to fulfill.”

Well — let me go ahead and remember who I am.

@HowardU to the world. Rest in power, @chadwickboseman

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

so we got the black urbanism/mobility justice folks stater pack on blue sky yet
or 👀

if you’ve moved over let me know!

[Mik | OkSoBoom on 🦋 @OkSoMik]

Noticing a trend here.

[Nicole D. Ramsey @Nicole_D_Rams]

I am super excited to share that my article " Marketing Culture and the Belizean Nation" is finally out in the world, published with Callaloo Journal. 🥳🥳

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

James Baldwin: "These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don't think I'm human. And I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters."

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

And yes there’s typos in my response but my sentiment is clear.

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

The DEHUMANIZATION of people MUST NOT BE NORMALIZED.

This sponsored ad from Pattern Beauty that came across my instagram feed this morning is another perfect example of this happening in real time. Making a mockery of suffering as fodder for capital is nasty work.

[Educator @DrAnnLopez]

The dehumanization of people must not be normalized. The genocide in Gaza must end. Genocide in Sudan and Congo must end.

[Omar Baddar عمر بدّار @OmarBaddar]

His family survived the Holocaust.
He founded Human Rights Watch.
He directed the ACLU.

Now he’s saying Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Excellent CNN interview:

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

may they rest in power.

#nationalpoetrymonth

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

Just got some letters from a friends middle school class I visited in the spring. I shared about my job as a transpo engineer + how I actually wanted to be a dancer/singer/actress when I grew up.

Told em they don’t have to have it all figured out, just stay open.

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

left the theater feeling the most human i felt in years after watching ORIGIN. i will always remember the moment i realized i was in a collective release of emotion/grief — hearing folks sob aloud as if it were laughter during a comedy

aunjanue ellis-taylor was/is a revelation.

[ARRAY @ARRAYNow]

Academy Award winner Regina King makes rare appearance to host and moderate an evening to celebrate Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Ava DuVernay’s ORIGIN.

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

https://t.co/zjQMfr0qUA

a convening of possibilities, may 17th - 19th 2024

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

first draft of ‘placemaking through poetry’ workshops in the bag 🙌🏾 i refuse to give up on this.

grateful for the raw/honest feedback i’ve received in the process. anyone who will let you know “this ain’t it” is a real one.

critique is a lost art.

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

less Jane Jacobs and more June Jordan.

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

a hard, often times heart-breaking, but necessary lesson learned.

[Kenya Wheeler @kenyaw]

The final train sweep at Richmond Station for the last scheduled legacy @sfbart train!

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

i better understand my work now, because i better understand myself.

[A. Ward @dubonthestreets]

took me so long to realize this but im glad i did when i did.