formerlovepoet.bsky.social
@formerlovepoet.bsky.social
Founder of the Brister English Project
Helping descendants of American chattel slavery with our genealogy.
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We are not waiting for institutions to tell our story. We’re writing it ourselves.

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March 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Here’s how you can help:
Donate – Because every dollar is an act of resistance.
Send Documents – Family letters, deeds, records, obituaries, cursive, print, etc.—we’ll archive them before they’re lost.
Share this so our history isn’t erased in silence.
March 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
To do this, we need Kindex—a tool that lets us store, transcribe, and own our records. It costs $700(it was the sign at RootsTech but I’m the site says $10 a month at most)for 3 years, and $5 for every 20 documents we transcribe.
March 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
That’s why I’m building our own archive. A space where Black history is preserved, protected, and accessible without permission from institutions that never cared about us in the first place. Why are their Black archives hidden behind student IDs in places that once didn’t allow Black people in?
March 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The current administration is gutting archives, banning books, and rewriting history to make Black pain invisible. To make Black resilience irrelevant. To make Black joy on existent. I’m trying to make the proper moves so our history doesn’t get erased…again.
March 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM