#blackimpossible

This is not a photo of me. #FlashbackFriday || I will never forget the day @sotamblue tagged me in this photo and said, “Is this you?” I was mind BLOWN! I had to look closer to see if some artist had taken a photo of me and created this. Come to find out this was one of #FelaKuti’s wives. How I found my lineage through a photo on the Internet is a wonder but also... how tragic is it that (1) I can not find her name - just her title as some great mans wife and (2) that I can not actually trace my family back beyond a plantation. ▪️ This paper I’m presenting in a few weeks is on #HipHop as the language of the #BlackImpossible but in short that’s my way Of saying that Hip Hop is the prophetic that created and created our future reality for several decades now. This is #AfroFuturism. Point blank period. || This photo is prophetic. I am the afroFuture. She is an ancestor. The afroFuture as well. Living on in me, through me. Somehow. I don’t even know her name but my existence and remembering of her keeps her alive. Toni Morrison talks abt the future memory and he imagination - where Blk folk have to imagine the pieces of the story that slavery keeps us from ever knowing. I talk abt his via #BlackGirlHomework @blackgirlmixtape “Ancestral Healing.” It is Healing her and me for me to speak her name and finish her story. We both are the black impossible! It’s sad and dope at the same time! 🙏🏾 You can donate to the learning and continued work of #BlackGirlMixtape by using the link in the bio and scrolling down to see “Donation” options. Also blackgirlmixtape.com has a Voluntary Reparations Page where you can bypass the idea of “donating” and give a #reparation as a signal of your desire to contribute towards #Repair. #ProtectBlackWomen #SayHerName #TheFreePeopleProject https://www.instagram.com/p/Bojrx9YD0dT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8mlcltbcw8j7

#TBT... This is a throwback photo to my graduation weekend exactly 3 years ago when I completed my degrees. in Cultural Anthropology and Political Science. Did you know I was a college drop out? ... That dropout part is relevant because I just completed a M.A. in May and likely onward. .... That dropout piece is relevant because before I got these little degrees I was still doing the work. On paper “unqualified” but that never ever stopped me. .... My grad school was unsafe for black Women. My Masters project was a 61 minute video telling them that they were unsafe for black women and need to stop fronting. .... In a few short weeks I’ll be presenting a paper at Princeton University that literally starts with the words, “It was all a dream, I use to read WordUp magazine. Salt and Pepper and Heavy D up in the limousine...member when I use to eat sardines for dinner... I’m blowing up like you thought I would - call the crib same number same good. It’s all good. And if you don’t know, now you know, Nigga!” - Notorious BIG. <- That’s not a metaphor for something. Legit my paper starts with the lyrics to BiG’s “It was all a dream” cause it’s abt #HipHop being the language of the #BlackImpossible .... I was a college drop out. Went back cause I was depressed and bored. Found Zora. Refound God. Found myself. Refound my purpose. Got another degree. Told some folk they not doing justice work when it’s just us (was the only cis Blk woman in high res at a school claiming to be doing spirit and counter oppression work)... and now a young thug is prepping to prove that I am your favorite rappers favorite rapper at Princeton rapping BIG lyrics and quoting NWA in the same paragraphs as I’da B. Wells and Bell Hooks. (check out the #RapTheology podcast on SoundCloud or iTunes). ... Who woulda thought? You can actually be you, change the world, and thrive in this one lifetime! A blessing! #TheFreePeopleProject https://www.instagram.com/p/BohiFP9DBAJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cjoy4wcenl2o

On the lastest episode of my #podcast “Rap Theology” I am talking about what it means to be #Decolonizing #Authority. Did you even realize that “Authority” (in its current form) is a colonized reality? Yes! The colonizers entered into spaces and stole much of the knowledges of the folk indigenous to those spaces and then said, “We are the governing body. In order to practice this thing you’ve been doing for centuries without our help or input - you now have to do XYZ to do this below average version of what you were already doing!” 👀 Additonalky I’m discussing @bustarhymes as the #BlackImpossible. “How niggas don’t obey no laws? Not even gravity!” - #BlackThought — Check our episode 13 and share the link with your friends! || #RapTheology #HipHopWomanism #HipHop #Womanist #Womanism #Wimbledon #Rap #Theology #LiberationTheology . . . SoundCloud.com/RapTheology #iTunes: Rap Theology . . . Make sure to share, subscribe, Like, Comment , Rate! 🙏🏾💜