The discipline of becoming someone I can stand behind.There is a kind of honesty that asks something of you.It asks you to sit…
The word feminism carries histories that don’t fully reflect my own. Here’s why the framework of womanism — rooted in community, survival, and repair —…
On culture, power, and the uneasy truth that brilliance and harm often live in the same body.This essay continues a thread I began earlier…
Dancehall, sexuality, and the cultural work happening in a catalogue most people only hear as scandal.I get into arguments about this all the…
The room is full and too quiet.A conference hall in Kingston, Jamaica. Restorative justice practitioners, scholars, people whose lives and work sit close to…
Notes from a public apology about accountability, harm, and learning to live with what you cannot undo.There’s a particular kind of certainty that…