Dialoguing with DRM

DRM, PhD

Jun 7, 20239 min

Toward a (not so) New Way of Being Black in the World: Ubuntu

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” ― Octavia E. Butler A few days ago, I was searching through my digital...

DRM, PhD

May 29, 202313 min

Standing At the Edge: Centering Blackness and People of the Global Majority in DEI

“I stood at the border, stood at the edge and claimed it as central. l claimed it as central and let the rest of the world move over to...

DRM, PhD

Apr 5, 202110 min

Racial Trauma: Bearing Witness & Claiming Space

Dear Friends, Sawubona! We see you! As I turn on the television or pop on NPR in the car, I am reminded of the phrase from Fred Moten’s...

DRM, PhD

Mar 28, 20217 min

DEI & Privilege: The Luxury of a Journey & The Necessity of an Expedition

At the beginning of the year, I embarked on my own adventure by leaving the academic world to take a position at a local healthcare...

DRM, PhD

Feb 24, 20214 min

Letting It Be True

February 24, 2021 “That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again....

DRM, PhD

Jan 1, 20211 min

Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing: 2021

Happy New Year! My God! Thank you! Everyday of the last year something has tried to kill me and has failed! We did it! You made it! So...

DRM, PhD

Jun 3, 20207 min

Calling Upon All of the Enraged: Speak Their Names

DRM, PhD

Apr 19, 20202 min

Quarantine Sunday: A Change Gotta Come

It's Sunday, April 19, we are quarantined and I have: 1,664 unread work emails, a grant for $500K to write for a new program at XU,...

DRM, PhD

Mar 27, 20202 min

Checking In: A Letter to My Colleagues - Cling to Community

Please remember: we are more than the work we can produce. Our humanity can never be simply reduced to labor. We are a community.