Transformation
I created this blog for a creative outlet, a way to take up space, avoid being erased, and to hopefully share a piece of me that will inspire others to start their journey. Since 1619, Black folks have been tortured, extracted from, erased, minimized, dehumanized, tortured, stereotyped, targeted, and been subjected to servitude. This is not new and did not end with the abolition of slavery. The system at the hands of those who control it create new ways to enslave our minds and bodies. I have grown in my perspective of why that is. For me, it is a matter of culture. Black and Brown culture, as a I am a multicultural woman of Black and Mexican decent, are both rooted in cooperativism and the village mentality. Our societies from our native tribes in Africa to the Olmecs were based in the good of the collective. We were creators and not destroyers. Our cultures went from creating for the community good to creating so that the conditions we were forced into would be a little easier, ...