The picture: I don’t like looking at it but I made myself look at it to write this post. It’s me and four Mayan girls. The tallest one comes up to my shoulder and the shortest one just barely reaches my hip. They are wearing skirts, sweaters and shawls all in different colors: earthy golds […]
Tag: racism
I believe in a world without prisons
I believe in a world without prisonswithout police without borders without detention centers without ICE I started believing in these things after I read Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown. I specifically remember reading the line in the book where she said, I believe in a future without prisons. And I remember thinking, wow that’s […]
An empty page
In honor of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor.
Racism, Instagram, and me
“White women are the people I’m most scared of.” -a black woman artist Well that was a hard one to swallow when I read it. And I think that the fact that it was hard to swallow is where it holds truth. I’ve spent a lot of my adulthood supporting (white) feminist causes. But instead […]
Creating a second class citizen
I don’t really know where to start with this one. I guess with Kalief Browder who spent three years on Rikers Island, an infamous New York City prison, for nothing. I mean, really, for nothing. Kalief was accused at the age of sixteen of stealing a man’s backpack. He said he was not guilty and he […]
Anne Foster 