ismatu gwendolyn

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