Currently Reading: 2 December 2013

Tryon P. Woods – “Surrogate Selves: Notes on Anti-Trafficking and Anti-Blackness” (2013) Abstract: This essay explores the discursive production of black …

“Akátá” Revisited: Wild Seed

Recently, I’ve been thinking of my position and identity within a forcible Diaspora. In February, I wrote a post entitled, …

dear one, what have you lost?

“Obruni (Twi word for “white foreigner”)* forced me to acknowledge that I didn’t belong anyplace. The domain of the stranger is …

Akátá- or how I realized that Afrocentrism was not for me

By no means am I a ‘natural’ citizen here in the US. I have the trappings of belonging- state-issued IDs, …