There comes a time when the weight of silence becomes unbearable. When your own body, soaked in years of trauma, grief, erasure, and survival, begins to hum with the static of ancestral truth trying t...

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I wanted my teacher to acknowledge this. That yes, the Joads suffered under capitalism — AND — that whiteness still gave them power over people like me. That’s not a contradiction. That’s America.

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More than 20 years ago now I began the early steps of writing and public engagement for what eventually became Sistah Vegan. At 15 years old, the book is nearly old enough to drive, and the movement.....

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