Aiesha Turman
@aieshaturman.bsky.social
Educator, writer, mama to a brilliant #righthemi and Reiki Master Teacher. Passionate about African American history, literature, art, and exploring the intersections of culture and liberation.
One link. All the things.
https://msha.ke/aieshaturman
One link. All the things.
https://msha.ke/aieshaturman
I wrote about making Unseen Routes—a short film and meditation on memory, spirit, and place—and what it taught me about home, return, and the stories buried under our feet. It’s up now on Electric Relaxation.
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Beneath the Concrete: Notes on Unseen Routes and the Maps We Make
(watch the film “Unseen Routes: Mapping Black Albany’s Past, Present, and Possible Futures”)
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October 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I wrote about making Unseen Routes—a short film and meditation on memory, spirit, and place—and what it taught me about home, return, and the stories buried under our feet. It’s up now on Electric Relaxation.
open.substack.com/pub/electric...
open.substack.com/pub/electric...
Brief read. Made some connections. Shared some books. www.aieshaturman.com/saltwater-fu...
Saltwater Futures: On Black Speculative Fiction, Hoodoo, and Gullah Geechee Memory
October is Black Speculative Fiction Month. It’s also Hoodoo Heritage Month...and Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Month. That overlap isn’t random, it’s resonance. Each celebrates the ways Black peop...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Brief read. Made some connections. Shared some books. www.aieshaturman.com/saltwater-fu...
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Thanks to homie @aieshaturman.bsky.social, I've been into tiny houses, which eventually led me to meet one of leaders of the movement, Jewel Pearson!
Her latest email asks for signatures to have tiny houses on wheels be a part of the International Residential Code. Pls sign:
chng.it/9TBshZGnLv
Her latest email asks for signatures to have tiny houses on wheels be a part of the International Residential Code. Pls sign:
chng.it/9TBshZGnLv
Tiny House Appendix: Act 2
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
September 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Thanks to homie @aieshaturman.bsky.social, I've been into tiny houses, which eventually led me to meet one of leaders of the movement, Jewel Pearson!
Her latest email asks for signatures to have tiny houses on wheels be a part of the International Residential Code. Pls sign:
chng.it/9TBshZGnLv
Her latest email asks for signatures to have tiny houses on wheels be a part of the International Residential Code. Pls sign:
chng.it/9TBshZGnLv
✨ New Work at Opalka Gallery ✨
My film installation Unseen Routes is now part of Compass Roses: Maps by Artists — Albany, alongside my daughter Zen’s piece Loved Here. Together, our works trace Black Albany’s past, present, and possible futures.
www.aieshaturman.com/unseen-route...
My film installation Unseen Routes is now part of Compass Roses: Maps by Artists — Albany, alongside my daughter Zen’s piece Loved Here. Together, our works trace Black Albany’s past, present, and possible futures.
www.aieshaturman.com/unseen-route...
Unseen Routes + Loved Here: A Mother–Daughter Mapping at Opalka Gallery
Unseen Routes is a digital film installation that blends archival research, speculative storytelling, and memory work.
www.aieshaturman.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
✨ New Work at Opalka Gallery ✨
My film installation Unseen Routes is now part of Compass Roses: Maps by Artists — Albany, alongside my daughter Zen’s piece Loved Here. Together, our works trace Black Albany’s past, present, and possible futures.
www.aieshaturman.com/unseen-route...
My film installation Unseen Routes is now part of Compass Roses: Maps by Artists — Albany, alongside my daughter Zen’s piece Loved Here. Together, our works trace Black Albany’s past, present, and possible futures.
www.aieshaturman.com/unseen-route...
On Return
Approximately one year ago, I returned to the city of my birth.
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August 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Reposted by Aiesha Turman
The latest from the brilliant @thefrankiedlc.news on this latest dumb (and harmful!) "trend" of throwing sex toys at WNBA games.
"A man throwing a sex toy shaped like a male anatomy at a women’s sporting event is perpetuating rape culture, plain and simple."
andscape.com/features/wnb...
"A man throwing a sex toy shaped like a male anatomy at a women’s sporting event is perpetuating rape culture, plain and simple."
andscape.com/features/wnb...
Throwing sex toys on court at WNBA games is about power, not humor
This latest 'trend' is not funny. It's harassment
andscape.com
August 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The latest from the brilliant @thefrankiedlc.news on this latest dumb (and harmful!) "trend" of throwing sex toys at WNBA games.
"A man throwing a sex toy shaped like a male anatomy at a women’s sporting event is perpetuating rape culture, plain and simple."
andscape.com/features/wnb...
"A man throwing a sex toy shaped like a male anatomy at a women’s sporting event is perpetuating rape culture, plain and simple."
andscape.com/features/wnb...
One year ago, I came home to the city where I was born and hadn’t lived in since I was 6. Toni Morrison said the isms exist to pull us from our work. I’ve been clearing the noise so I can keep doing mine. New post about this return → www.aieshaturman.com/new-roots-ne...
New Roots, New Routes
If you’ve been with me for a while — thank you for walking with me. If you’re new — I’m so glad you’re here.
The last time I wrote here was in January, when the year felt wide open and the calendar w...
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August 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
One year ago, I came home to the city where I was born and hadn’t lived in since I was 6. Toni Morrison said the isms exist to pull us from our work. I’ve been clearing the noise so I can keep doing mine. New post about this return → www.aieshaturman.com/new-roots-ne...
Reposted by Aiesha Turman
WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH
a black background with the words black history month in red yellow and green
Alt: a black background with the words black history month in red yellow and green
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February 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Today makes 40 years since the original The Color Purple was released in theaters. Yet and still…
January 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Today makes 40 years since the original The Color Purple was released in theaters. Yet and still…
I take terrible selfies, but I loved the lighting after teaching 2 particularly good back-to-back classes.
January 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I take terrible selfies, but I loved the lighting after teaching 2 particularly good back-to-back classes.
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It’s Girl Scout cookie season…so if you’re thinking of getting some please consider Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters www.girlscoutsnyc.org/en/discover/...
Troop 6000
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January 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It’s Girl Scout cookie season…so if you’re thinking of getting some please consider Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters www.girlscoutsnyc.org/en/discover/...
Reposted by Aiesha Turman
On the Bellamy salute... carlynbeccia.medium.com/the-ancient-...
The Ancient Roman Salute That Never Existed
Is America gaslighting itself?
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January 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
On the Bellamy salute... carlynbeccia.medium.com/the-ancient-...
I’m a member of the steering committee for the inaugural Zora Neale Hurston Summit being held at Barnard College at the end of the month. Still time to register or sign up to volunteer or vend!
www.zoranealehurstonsummit.com
www.zoranealehurstonsummit.com
Zora Neale Hurston Summit
www.zoranealehurstonsummit.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I’m a member of the steering committee for the inaugural Zora Neale Hurston Summit being held at Barnard College at the end of the month. Still time to register or sign up to volunteer or vend!
www.zoranealehurstonsummit.com
www.zoranealehurstonsummit.com
Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech is often celebrated for its beauty, but what if we looked deeper? What if we saw it for what it truly was—a bold act of Black radical imagination? In this piece, I explore how his dream wasn’t just about hope but a call to reimagine and rebuild the world.
Vision as Resistance: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Black Futures and Revolutionary Imagination
When we talk about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his I Have a Dream speech, it’s tempting to reduce it to a string of lofty phrases or a feel-good hallmark of American progress. It’s become the kind ...
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January 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech is often celebrated for its beauty, but what if we looked deeper? What if we saw it for what it truly was—a bold act of Black radical imagination? In this piece, I explore how his dream wasn’t just about hope but a call to reimagine and rebuild the world.
I loved teaching Frankenstein to 11th graders. One year I was able to take them to the Frankenstein exhibit at The Morgan and they loved it. There had fragments of Shelley’s skull on display.
On this day in 1818 Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is first published, by 20-year-old Mary Shelley, the world’s first science fiction novel.
“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine...
“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine...
January 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I loved teaching Frankenstein to 11th graders. One year I was able to take them to the Frankenstein exhibit at The Morgan and they loved it. There had fragments of Shelley’s skull on display.
My 2024 reading recap from @thestorygraph.com and the books I plan to read for Q1. I listened to a lot of audiobooks while unpacking from my move. I also tend to buy books and let them sit until they are ready to be read.
My goal is 24 books, not including what I read for work.
My goal is 24 books, not including what I read for work.
January 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My 2024 reading recap from @thestorygraph.com and the books I plan to read for Q1. I listened to a lot of audiobooks while unpacking from my move. I also tend to buy books and let them sit until they are ready to be read.
My goal is 24 books, not including what I read for work.
My goal is 24 books, not including what I read for work.
I didn’t make make my reading quota of 50 books (outside of what I read for work/teaching) and I am ok with that. I’m at 41 and will hit 42 tomorrow.
This year I am going to half that amount. Compiling my list of books for Q1 now and I will continue to use @thestorygraph.com I love the interface.
This year I am going to half that amount. Compiling my list of books for Q1 now and I will continue to use @thestorygraph.com I love the interface.
December 31, 2024 at 3:55 PM
I didn’t make make my reading quota of 50 books (outside of what I read for work/teaching) and I am ok with that. I’m at 41 and will hit 42 tomorrow.
This year I am going to half that amount. Compiling my list of books for Q1 now and I will continue to use @thestorygraph.com I love the interface.
This year I am going to half that amount. Compiling my list of books for Q1 now and I will continue to use @thestorygraph.com I love the interface.
I was having a bit of a sad moment then I remembered that I had a container of my Aunt Betty’s potato salad in the fridge. All is well. #NomNomNom
December 31, 2024 at 2:24 PM
I was having a bit of a sad moment then I remembered that I had a container of my Aunt Betty’s potato salad in the fridge. All is well. #NomNomNom
Just finished Keke Palmer’s memoir Master of Me.
I wish I had it when I was in my 20s and I’m getting a copy for my daughter.
I am not the target audience, but I’m a believer that we can and should learn from younger folk and intergenerational relationships and mentoring are important.
Loved it!
I wish I had it when I was in my 20s and I’m getting a copy for my daughter.
I am not the target audience, but I’m a believer that we can and should learn from younger folk and intergenerational relationships and mentoring are important.
Loved it!
November 26, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Just finished Keke Palmer’s memoir Master of Me.
I wish I had it when I was in my 20s and I’m getting a copy for my daughter.
I am not the target audience, but I’m a believer that we can and should learn from younger folk and intergenerational relationships and mentoring are important.
Loved it!
I wish I had it when I was in my 20s and I’m getting a copy for my daughter.
I am not the target audience, but I’m a believer that we can and should learn from younger folk and intergenerational relationships and mentoring are important.
Loved it!
I should be grading.
November 17, 2024 at 10:54 PM
I should be grading.