I know this is coming late, but life with Rona has been challenging. Aside from shifting from in-person to remote teaching at the University in under 72 hours, we had to re-schedule Sanctuary for 2021. Aside from the challenges of life under a pandemic, including increased social isolation, the murders of innocent Black people continues […]

A little over a year ago, Sanctuary was born. After the Christchurch shooting in New Zealand, I could no longer contain all of my feelings. I had to do something. I had to be with other artists and, together, find sanctuary. I am so excited. D’Lo is directing us. Rosamond and Courtney are flying in […]

It is hard to believe that October, November and December came and went, and now it is 2020! So many wonderful moments have taken place since early October. For one, I was down in Los Angeles with Omi Osun Joni L. Jones “The Diaspora Project,” sponsored by the Thousand Currents Foundation. For four days, I […]

First of all, I need to say that the &Now Conference was fantastic. It was so beautiful to see/be present to/feel the work of LaTasha N. Nevada-Diggs – always. Her piece evoked the living, the dead, and all those in between. It called the birds dancing in on the Harmattan to rise over and above […]

I am so much looking forward to some great events this September. I am moving into my new office in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies. The location is still a bit of a mystery, but something is happening. I am going to see the 1491’s “Between Two Knees” in Ashland (as part of the Oregon […]

I am officially launching this blog/website today! What does that even mean anymore in an era of 140 characters, visual language and disappearing images, and socially pre-defined silos of text/videos/and all of the above? I guess my anachronism continues through this medium. I am a lover a books. Why not be a lover of blogs? […]

August 8, 2019 Big news!! I just signed two contracts this summer. The first is with SUNY Press’s Afro-Latinx Futures Series, edited by Vanessa K. Valdez, for the book Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty. The second is with Rutgers University Press’s Critical Caribbean Studies Series, edited by Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, for the book Streetwalkers: LGBTQ Lives […]