Some personal news 🥳
I'm thrilled to announce I've been accepted into @Tin_House's 2022 Winter Workshop, where I will be workshopping my YA fiction novel!! #TinHouse
The read: Want to know what happens when you drop a Black teen from Baltimore into a dystopian space opera?
The loneliness epidemic is too much of a reality for folks to be out here posturing like community means anything but a mutual investment.
Your two friends who don’t know each other but will invest in your safety and well-being is also a community. Make sure you nurture them.
You’re going to see a lot of people talk about community and I want to remind you that community doesn’t mean big or large, it means people who are intentionally invested in your well-being.
Your friend group of two or three people is also a community.
Precision EVP @KrishanaDavis specializes in driving conversations. This weekend, she spoke to the Hill to explain how the addition of Gov. Walz to the Democratic ticket supports the very important conversation on reproductive rights.
first words Sonya Massey said at her front door were “don’t hurt me”
she was told “why would we hurt you, you called us”
when have those words meant anything when your black and woman in this country
when do those words protect you from not being murdered in your kitchen, in your bedroom, with your babies, or on your lawn
what is “reassurance”, in this place ?
rest in power Sonya Massey, and an abundance of love and power to Sonya’s family on this journey
Morehouse School of Medicine's first cohort of rural doulas just graduated. The doulas are slated to begin working with pregnant and postpartum patients this year in a state that has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the country.
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Introducing 2024 RWW Writers’ Retreat for Storytellers of Color Fellow @KrishanaDavis, a storyteller centering Black voices from her hometown, Baltimore. A former journalist, she turned to sci-fi to reimagine the world. She can be spotted twirling 10 feet high on an aerial hoop.
Checked out a couple comic book sellers in Little Five Points over the weekend, and their lack of selection of comics by Black authors was trying my nerves. The shop owners hadn't even heard of these very popular titles.