ismatu gwendolyn

26
Sep

Revolutionary Healers: A Syllabus

In which Ismatu Gwendolyn, new to the healing profession and rooting in revolutionary thought and action, provides structure for their studies in public.
4 min read
30
Jul

Revolutionary Love costs you something.

Notes on refusing to charge for client services.
18 min read
27
Apr

Therapists Are Also the Police: Sex Work, Social Work, and the Politics of Deservingness

Alternatively titled, “Reasons I Have No Desire to Get Licensure as a Clinical Therapist.”
20 min read
09
Apr

There is no safety in being Beautiful: reflections from a life spent On Display (™)

A child model turned grad-school stripper talks openly about the reality of being shackled to Beauty and the negotiations a life of Beauty investment necessitates.
31 min read
19
Feb

Reproductive justice is economic justice.

We owe the children of this world, including our childhood selves, lasting reproductive justice.
13 min read
08
Feb

Poverty is an intentional genocide.

Ismatu Gwendolyn, clinical social worker and former impoverished child, doubles down on the ugly (and obvious) truth of why poverty exists in the first place.
13 min read
19
Jan

notes on afro-pessimism 101

notes from the live on Saturday attached to this email!
2 min read
06
Nov

Beauty Talk: the Jezebel, the Mammy, and the third gender of "Black woman."

Chapter one review of Deborah Gray White's "Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South" with the question: what makes us so attached to Beauty when it was designed to suffocate us?
15 min read