feel it. the thing that you don't want to feel. feel it. and be free.

- nayyirah waheed

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  • Print w Elder - 02.07.24

    Print w Elder - 02.07.24

    How To Print On Demand - Beginner Class!

  • EP: Creative Coaching

    Together we will build a foundation focused on writing, sharing, and healing. Revisiting and rewriting narratives is a critical part of healing and this practice. Exploring our own sovereignty and inviting others to do the same through the written word, reflection, and looking at what we truly seek to achieve and be in this lifetime, is key to this process.

  • A Queer Bi-Weekly Writing Workshop

    This is a bi-weekly hybrid (in-person & online) queer creative space organized by Elder Akewi, Stephen Stratton & Jan Bindas-Tenney. For each session we will facilitate hybrid space, offer a framing, prompt, invite quiet creation time together as well as space to share.

Cum Again?

“You have a difficult time receiving” he told me one morning while I flitted off his attempts at charming and disarming me. “Yeah, from you” was on the tip of my tongue, I said something else, talking about how that was in fact true and how I did not need to take sessions with him, before moving into the sun to enjoy my freshly made smoothie.

His words however, have stayed with me. I do have a difficult time receiving. Receiving compliments, receiving favors, receiving gifts, and receiving sexually.

In my early twenties I was friends with a girl, now a woman, who had an established friend group. She and I were close, bestiessss, and yet I always felt on the outside when we all spent time together. Aside from my friend, they were all white and had been friends since high school. I was the newest and darkest one on the scene. My friend is Puerto Rican and we rocked the Black and brown thing quite nicely....cont.

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