Category: GirlTREK’s Self-Care School

Parable of the Sower was written in 1989, published in 1983, but the book is set in 2024-2027. #OctaviaButler got down with this one. Her foresight was prophetic. She saw the climate crisis, the rise of corporate control, the collapse of social structures, etc.  This week’s theme is NextGen to…

This week, we celebrate caregivers, the ones who step into every gap, fight for our loved ones when no one else will, and remind us: care begins with believing we deserve it. Sojourner Truth embodied that fierce devotion. When her son was illegally sold into slavery, she prayed, she marched…

Ida B. Wells knew that the state wasn’t built to protect us. That we had to protect each other, and ourselves.  She once said: “A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every Black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to…

When we talk about real power, I think we have to talk about anger, too. So for the reading today, I chose Audre Lorde’s essay The Uses of Anger. It’s one of the clearest expressions, to me, of what power can look like when rooted in truth and community.  She…

Shirley Chisholm once said, “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines.” And that’s especially true when it comes to the land beneath our feet and the roofs over our heads. So many of our foremothers understood that owning land wasn’t just about property—it was about possibility. About freedom.…