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Collective Amnesia sells 10,000 copies

The first collection of poetry I purchased with money that I had saved up was Ewok Robinson's Pimp my Poetry. I bought it on a high...

Owning the rights to Collective Amnesia: On IP & ownership.

2016, I am standing outside The Hangar at the National Arts Festival, looking for the venue of the show I wanted to see. I sort of knew...

Erase (Black women) – But make it cute!

“generations of women whose works were stolen, displayed in your museums with no name and you think I’m creating to be anonymous” –...

Meeting my boundaries through psychedelics: on being raised by healers and unlearning how to heal.

I often think about other pastors’ kids, commonly referred to as PKs. I think about the parameters that were created around them, the...