Archive - sunday meditations

Shame is a doorway, to feeling other possibilities

On seeing our collective feelings of exhaustion and shame as a guide against grind culture

Jan 20, 2025 • Stephanie M

Each year, a rehearsal for liberation

On slowing down and seeing life as one long rehearsal in the pursuit of collective liberation

Jan 5, 2025 • Stephanie M

December 2024

For Nikki Giovanni

We will always be in conversation with Nikki, and the Black women writers that sustained her.

Dec 18, 2024 • Stephanie M

Shame is a doorway to revolution, against capitalism

What if the shame you’ve been carrying around your burnout, trauma and illness has less to do with you and more to do with the sick state of the world?

Dec 11, 2024 • Stephanie M

November 2024

Black feminist thought as a site of self-recovery

Every Black woman I know is tired, and even more tired of trying to be well. We are collectively not well. How can Black feminisms guide us to recovery…

Nov 29, 2024 • Stephanie M

September 2022

an invitation to my sunday meditations

Sep 3, 2022 • Stephanie M