Surviving Capitalism Through The Protection of Community
What I learned from these two years is that capitalism is not something you ever truly survive. You are a slave to the world until the world is no more. CW/TW: mentions of sexual assault, gun violence, houselessness, and more
Abolish It All: A World Without Private Prisons is Still A World With Slaves
None of these candidates are committed to abolishing private prisons because each of them have investments in the very things that allow for prisons of any kind to exist. Bernie Sanders recently tweeted that he wants to end “private prisons and
Desirability: Do You Really Love Fat People When You Can’t Even See Us Beyond The Political?
The reality is that our bodies take up more space than the world ever makes for us, yet somehow desirability finds a way to keep us out. I am fat. I have been fat my entire life. And for most of
When Marginalized Folk Take Our Lives, It’s Because the State Already Has
TW: This essay discusses suicide I had just finished my first and most brutal semester at Morehouse College days before. I went over to my brothers’ house to stay there before heading back home to North Carolina. Sitting in the back
From Colonialism To The Diaspora Wars: We Are All Finding Our Way Back
Our enemy is not each other; our enemy is always white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism. One of the most common quarrels among Black people online is one in which we engage in spewing what almost always seems like mistruths and