Writing

Writing has been a practice of liberation for me for more than three decades — a way of breaking silences, bearing witness, and reaching toward freedom. My work spans Black feminist inquiry, cultural production, healing justice, Dharma, and contemplative practice.

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Black. Feminist. Lesbian. Survivor. Dharma practitioner and teacher. These are not just identities. They are portals. This work moves through them — toward compassionate truth, toward healing and accountability, toward freedom for all beings.

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Lion’s Roar

Writings on Black liberation ancestors and Buddhist practice, including reflections on the Sacca (Truthfulness) Pāramī.

10 Ways to Find True Happiness

We Remember: Six Remarkable Black Buddhists

Awakening through Audre Lorde

Yes, She Was a Powerful Woman! A Dedication to bell hooks

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Medium

Essays rooted in cultural work, healing justice, and non-carceral approaches to harm — threads of inquiry that continue to inform my Dharma teaching.

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The Feminist Wire

My writings published in The Feminist Wire, now archived at Harvard University, span more than six years of Black feminist inquiry — essays, cultural criticism, interviews, tributes, and profiles in the Feminists We Love series that celebrate feminists, queer artists, and cultural workers whose lives and work matter. As Associate Editor (2012-2016), I also curated and edited, including collaboratively, special multi-voiced global forums on Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, and love WITH accountability. While this collection is not a full compilation of my writings from my tenure (2011-2017), it represents a meaningful archive of that work.

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For an extended archive of my cultural and justice-oriented writings from the late 1990s through 2025, please view my curriculum vitae