It’s hard to know where to begin. By many counts, nothing about my child’s life thus far has been particularly remarkable. They were conceived naturally, pregnancy was relatively uncomplicated, and to hear the average doctor say it, delivery was pretty straightforward too. And yet, as with most things, there are…

The other day I had this need. The kind of need only a conversation with a small group of close-knit friends can fill. I went to scroll through the familiar list of threads with people I speak to most often and there it was: my “Dance Sisters” tab, with Danika’s…

A note from the author: the following contains reflections from a time in my life when I was just beginning to explore much of the work & space that I move through more deeply now. As such, I recognize in revisiting this work that some of my language has since…

A note from the author: the following contains reflections from a time in my life when I was just beginning to explore much of the work & space that I move through more deeply now. As such, I recognize in revisiting this work that some of my language has since…

*being Black It’s a hell of a time to be alive. It’s even more of a wild ride being a person of color in the United States right now. Add to that being female, Bi, an explorer of ancestral spiritual practices and a child of immigrants, and…well. I was born…