And for everyone who fought and sacrificed to create that same feeling for me. Because it's what we deserve. 🙏🏽

Hopelessness, selfishness, non-human centered version of reality that we're living in right now. There just has to be. I know there is. So, in spite of all the chaos and confusion, I'll keep trying to recreate that feeling and that moment for everyone coming after me, everyone still here with me,

Me to share this right now, especially since I rarely post on socials these days, but I guess I needed to get it out. With that being said though, I believe more students deserve to fel what I felt those few short weeks after my defense. There has to be more to life than the anxiety, despair,

I really wish that period of time could have lasted longer. I was excited about the future of higher education and my future within (but not of it). As someone with assistant professor aspirations but staff positioning this space we occupy right now is terrifying. I don't really know what prompted

Even as I watched the results come in that night, there was still an overwhelming sense of peace that I had. I attended my first post-defense conference a little later, where, despite my "new scholar" status, I felt true to the work. The way I embodied my space and my knowledge *chef's kiss*

, transforming a situation destined for intimate human fellowship into a spider web of conspiracy and violence- Black Theology & Black Power x James Cone.

If this isn't a description of exactly what we are seeing right now, I don't know what is.

This is the essence of sin, every man's desire to become 'like God.' But in his passion to become superhuman, man become subhuman, estranged from the source of his being, threatening and threatened by his neighbor...(1/2)

Appreciate it! Hope you get some rest in as we try to finish out the year 🙏🏽