Babies are just über-present in my reality right now. Perhaps that’s just God’s way of preparing me in time, I mean, way in time. I am indeed already a wife & mother – in the spirit. The essence of what & who we truly are has been written down as part of the foundation of [...]
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Natural Living, Natural Birthing
Posted in Black knowledge, Go Vegan, Holistic Health, I write what I like, Our Bodies, Our Temples, tagged awareness, consciousness, holistic living, home birth, natural birth, pregnancy, vegan pregnancy on 28 January, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Greening the Ghetto
Posted in 5 yards of Eden, Black knowledge, Eco-awareness, I write what I like, tagged eco-racism, environmental activism, marjora carter, sustainability, ted on 29 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I watched this video a while back, back in the days when I still had high-speed internet at my disposal. Marjora Carter, she moved me big time & is a true inspiration for me. How much we are possible to change the world, our world, if we just set our mind on it…
A Blak Fairy Tale
Posted in Black knowledge, I write what I like, Poetry, Sounds & Syllables, Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged black issues, botsotso, chantal-fleur sandjon, cinn sandjon, Poetry on 11 October, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my poems has been featured in the latest Botsotso magazine! You can’t find the content online, so I wanna share the poem with you this way. It is one of my favourite performance pieces & I haven’t linked to it in an earlier post on my poetry yet so here it is! Two [...]
So You Really Think You’re Not Racist?
Posted in Black knowledge, I write what I like, tagged racism, whiteness on 2 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A recent online discussion regarding intentional vs. unintentional racism brought the lack of self-reflection amongst many white folks back into sight (don’t ask me where it was hiding…). The usual statements came up à la: “Lighten up, you are taking things way too serious!” “Racism lies in the eyes of the beholder” “If it wasn’t meant [...]
Is This Cinema Chair Electric Or What?
Posted in Black knowledge, I write what I like, tagged bell hooks, black issues, consciousness, empowerment, mainstream on 11 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Consciousness in all spheres of life is a one-way road where you can reverse a couple of meters but you can’t entirely go back once you entered it. Evolving consciousness or awareness might feel depriving at times. You can’t just gulp down that ice cream anymore without being aware of the reasons for your cravings [...]
The destruction of diet
Posted in Black knowledge, Food for Thought: Quotes, Facts, Figures, I write what I like, Our Bodies, Our Temples, tagged black issues, black veganism, food, neo-colonialism on 10 August, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the weapons of colonialism and genocide is the destruction of diet. The way that this is done is by adapting the ‘conquered’ to the S.A.D. (standard american diet). So even before we promote a plant-centric diet the first question we have to ask is a diet derived from Europeans appropriate for Original People. [...]
Black people, white sugar
Posted in Black knowledge, Food for Thought: Quotes, Facts, Figures, I write what I like, Our Bodies, Our Temples, tagged black issues, dr. laila o. afrika, food, food addictions, health on 21 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“My greatest challenge is getting Black people off white sugar. This has been an on-going struggle for 35 years and I’m losing.” Dr. Laila O. Afrika in: Zakhah “The Joy of Living Live”
