Un bosque de mujeres/A forest of womyn
I heard the music in my dreams first and woke to the familiar sound of an accordion playing. It was the third night of me sleeping on the land and in a tent, that in [...] The post Un bosque de...
View ArticleFood/Comida is medicine all the time everyday
I was walking up from my house on Fruitvale towards E. 14th Street. About two blocks from my house, I found myself walking behind two womyn. One pushed a baby stroller; a baby was wrapped [...] The...
View ArticleInvesting for East Oakland
We all know the wave of development is pushing folks farther into East Oakland, the deeper parts. Parts that local folks call Deep East Oakland. Past the 70s into the 80s and 90s. An area [...] The...
View ArticleFlores flowering in gratitude
Recently in the midst of so much heaviness on all fronts, I went looking for some hope. I returned to poetry, my first written love form. I stumbled upon a poem that my former student [...] The post...
View ArticleNew East Oakland Grocery Co-op Looking for Founding Members
A new grocery cooperative in East Oakland is recruiting up to eight founding cohort members by May, who will then go through a 12-week training over the summer to become the first group of...
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