For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt, as Tarana Burke puts it, “hard-wired to respond to injustice.” Long before I ever considered partnership…
"I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against." — Malcolm X Easrlier this year, we…
There’s a reason many survivors say the hardest part isn’t always the violence—it’s the disbelief that follows. The world demands you carry your trauma quietly.…
There’s an African proverb that says: “Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero.” But what happens when the lion…
In recent weeks, there’s been a surge in calls for Jamaica to make its sex offender registry public. The argument is simple and compelling: people…
A few months ago, after a reading I did at the Calabash Literary Festival in Jamaica, an older woman approached me and said: “Things will…
