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#DANCEDELPHIA #DanceTReks #WINWIN #PHILOSOPHACTIVIST #IndianaJawns #HearInEARTH (at Win Win Coffee Bar)

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This is a speech I gave at City Hall in Austin, Texas last year. It is printed in the zine Philosophactivism 2 and can be found at etsy.com/shop/afrogenderqueer

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Afro-Genderqueer at African American Book Festival Showcase

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Six months. So many hangouts, so much love. <3333333

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Here I talk about racism and whiteness in Portland, my personal agreement to no longer engage in white supremacy, and the amazing reception we got in Seattle.

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Q/POC are Overworked and Underpaid

"Queer folks of color at the intersections of race, gender and sexuality are up against multiple layers of discrimination based on appearance and something as small (or large) as other’s perceptions. Like many POC, we work extremely hard and get paid astronomically less. Many times we are expected (consciously or unconsciously) to work 10X harder by our white (and sometimes even brown) supervisors. Many times we are seen as mere work horses. This is all tied to perceptions of people of color as lazy, underachievers. People (maybe not even people) to bear the brunt of hard labor like we've done for centuries. Sometimes these perceptions are even tied to beliefs that we should be grateful that they’ve hired us or let us work there instead of a white person. And essentially they’re doing us a favor by working us into the ground. We should definitely thank them.

  A lot of times we internalize this. We carry these toxic beliefs within ourselves. These beliefs that we have a horrible work ethic and that we must work like a dog and be underpaid and be appreciative for whatever scraps we can get. Sometimes we even feel that it’s normal to be constantly depressed with chronic pain. As a person with lupus, I must say that I know what this is like firsthand. As a person who has worked in a number of predominantly white corporate and non-profit environments, I can vouch for many of these sentiments. "

- From Philosophactivist Blog

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Zines, anthologies, chapbooks, excerpts from my new play.

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"I am in such deep gratitude of the support I've received in pursuing my herbal education so far and I thank those co-visionaries walking this journey with me. I ask that you please continue to spread the word that I am collecting love and solidarity offerings in order to finish paying for my herbal education so that I can continue to bring it back to our community in the form of zines and pop-up libraries, skillshares and freedom schools, and free/low-cost holistic health pop-up clinics and holistic health fairs. Here is my fundraising website"