#black futures matter

It has been a few months since I’ve posted. I’ve been teaching for the summer in California. I’m going back home to Philadelphia in a week and I’m moving to Atlanta in two weeks.

Android Oshún, the Africana WomaNINJA is back.

I know that people like to focus on how we can protect the bodies of Black women and girls. I am with them. But I also care about doing the work pertaining to protecting Black women and girls from themselves after we failed to protect them from the world’s darkness in the future. How do we keep Black women and girls alive. We want to prevent mental and physical deaths.

Sexual trauma, intimate partner violence, other forms of physical violence, body shaming and sexual shaming are taking years off of us as Black women and girls.

I hear some Black men and women say “So you are trying to teach women and girls how to be hoes?” because I’m teaching them how to be sex positive. I hear some Black men and women say, “So you are trying to push homosexuality onto people” because I affirm LGBTQIA Black people.

I care about Black lives. Period. What keeps our people here longer with us on this planet? Affirmation.

“Aren’t you Christian? What would Jesus do?”

If you have to ask me that question, then I’m almost clear that you don’t know what he would do.

I’m no fool. I’m using African-centered/Afrocentric approaches with other Black women to sex positivity because I know that hypersexuality/ over-sexualization is a theme historically within Blackness.

P.S. Cishet Black men and boys, I’m coming for you next. It’s so crucial and necessary for you to learn this as well.

So everyone, just be ready. Black Futures Matter and I’m here to introduce/add another component to Afrofuturism for Africana people.

Then I turned 25

Android Mermaid. Asé.

Consorting with my Ancestors. Burning incense. Embracing Oshún. Thanking the Lord for another day. Amen. Asé. #BlackGirlMagic

In the midst of all of this death, pain, and trauma… This Black woman, this Africana woman is living. ASÉ! Sending this out to all of my sisters.

We read a wonderful book, and do fun activities each day. However, my scholars learn a little extra. My scholars have learned about gender identity, Black women’s ideology, Afrofuturism, enslaved African people, classism, sexism/misogyny/misogynoir, colorism, food deserts, racism, intersectionality, pan- Africanism and gender as a means to understand Latinx (instead of saying Latino/a) and Afro Latinx. My scholars are BRILLIANT!

Teaching my babies at Freedom Schools this summer has been a blast!