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Play is Political: On White Supremacy’s Denial of Black Play
four Black children in a black and white photo doing a cartwheel "Refusal is Black culture." - Kellie Carter Jackson In 5th grade I...
Feb 76 min read
NorthStar Durham - Sunday Service Transcript
Trey gives a talk on the words and wisdom of Toni Morrison at NorthStar Durham Church of the Arts’ Sunday Service.
Feb 38 min read
A Beginner’s Guide to Sustainable Mutual Aid, Part 2
Below is a transcript from a Instagram post on July 17, 2024 on Mutual Aid. Please skip to the bottom for two campains to support for...
Jul 17, 20244 min read
The Cost of Enduring
The cost of enduring.
Jun 11, 20244 min read
The Grieving Time Traveler: To Create The World That We Want, We Must Heal; To Heal, We Must Remember; To Remember, We Must Time Travel.
We must build what we need to grieve and heal, in order to sustain our movements for liberation.
Apr 28, 20248 min read
Trey’s Living, Breathing Reading List
I posted a video of my reading list on Instagram and a few folks asked to see it, so I'm sharing it here as well. This isn't a reading...
Mar 23, 20243 min read
Whose Imagination Are You Living In: On Palestine, COVID, and Building the Future We Want
A reflection on the power of our imagination.
Mar 2, 20244 min read
Rest is Not Resistance, and That is OK: On Cancer, Grief, & Audre Lorde
A personal reflection on rest and resistance, grief and loss, and the writings of Audre Lorde.
Feb 25, 20249 min read
Making Myself Whole: On Embracing Gender Nonconformity and the Politic of Queerness
A personal reflection on my journey into gender non-conformity.
Jan 2, 20243 min read
“People Are Waking Up!” - A Practical Guide to Moving From Grief and Rage to Collective Care
A practical guide for moving from grief and rage to collective care.
Dec 25, 20236 min read
It Is Cold and Raining in Gaza
Every so often, I wake up and check the weather forecast in Gaza. It is cold and it is raining. In fact, as I write this, there is a...
Dec 13, 20232 min read
On Crises and Creating the World We Want - A Post Friendsgiving Reflection
The following post is a reflection I had following Friendsgiving 2023. The COVID Pandemic, and the nationwide protests of 2020 following...
Nov 20, 20234 min read
On Exhaustion and the Everydayness of Politics
Many of us feel so overwhelmed right now. One of the many reasons I think we feel overwhelmed during times like this is because we are...
Nov 6, 20233 min read
On Black American Cultural Intuition: From West Badin to West London to the West Bank
Black American folk: Listen to the knot in your stomach that is telling you the Israeli occupation of Palestine is inhumane and deserving...
Oct 25, 20233 min read
"The Devil Don't Need No Mo' Advocates"
"Free Palestine" is a complete sentence. And I want us to resist the urge to add any qualifiers. Because the truth needs no asterisks....
Oct 21, 20232 min read
A Reflection on Palestine, Grief, and Nina Simone's Music
I recently read that there are 5 Gates of Grief that we enter through. One of those gates is “The Sorrows of the World.” I've been...
Oct 14, 20234 min read
Lil Fires E'rywhere: How Radical Friendship Saved My Life
Every Friday, two of my closest friends and I get together and we practice world-making. We call our weekly gathering “Wind Down.” There...
Mar 14, 20237 min read
@WhatsOneMorePothos x @ModernBotanicalShop Mother's Day Giveaway
Tis The Season For Propagation Last month, the good folks over at Modern Botanical sent me some of their walnut wall hangers to try. I...
Apr 22, 20221 min read
Sounds from the Green Room, Vol. 2
On Rest. We are now two full years into a global pandemic. TWO. FULL. YEARS. Y'ALL. Often I feel gaslit by the lack of daily...
Apr 15, 20222 min read
Creating a Propagation Wall with Modern Botanical’s Hanging Wall Vessels
PROPAGATION SEASON is heeeeeere!! (Who am I kidding — I will literally take a cutting in the dead of winter. 😅) When I first learned...
Mar 27, 20221 min read
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