I have been in an inquiry around rest, aided profoundly by friends and in community, as well as through the study of rest as written about by Black women, particularly Tricia Hersey, Bishop of the Nap Ministry and her book Rest is Resistance and Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith’s Sacred Rest. What I’ve come to realize is how […]
Month: October 2022
Cultivating New Things
My dear friend Ale gave me a ginseng plant for my birthday. When she gave it to me, she laughed because she knew I would be surprised. I don’t do well with plants. I support the life of my family and dog, but they also advocate for themselves. Less so with myself, and even less […]
Rest as Resistance
My survival (like that of many of women of color in, and outside, of academia) has always been about the hustle. I write about this a lot. I wrote about it last week, in fact. But I am committed to moving beyond survival, towards thriving. And to do so, I have to slow down. I […]
Pause, Listen, Breathe, Be
This morning, I was having a hard time settling. October is going to be a busy month and the past couple of weekends I’ve had to push my boundaries on working because some things just didn’t get done during the week. So I felt myself pulled back to doing, and began to feel a lot […]
Voice and Visibility: The Wisdom in Our Words
What does it mean to believe that the stories we tell to our children have value to our academic communities? What does it mean to stand in that truth despite in the face of multiple submissions, multiple revisions, multiple rejections, and finally an acceptance, a publication, and a piece in the world that reflects pieces […]