Books
Undisciplined challenges us to break free from the confines of traditional academic thinking, presenting a radical reimagining of how we create knowledge. Drawing from Black radical traditions and decolonial theory, I explore how Western academic disciplines have historically constrained our ability to think, dream, and imagine freely.
Weaving together personal narrative, critical theory, and poetic insight, I argue that true liberation requires us to step beyond disciplinary boundaries. My journey as both scholar and activist reveals how these artificial divisions have served to maintain systems of power and oppression, while limiting our capacity to understand the world in its full complexity.
Undisciplined isn't just a critique of academia—it's my passionate call to embrace undisciplined thinking as a path toward collective liberation and transformation. Through intimate examples and sharp analysis, I offer both a powerful critique of current academic structures and a hopeful roadmap for how we might think, learn, and create knowledge differently.
This is an invitation to reclaim our right to imagine different futures and ways of knowing.
Black Joy, edited by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff and Timi Sotire, is a powerful anthology that celebrates the multiplicity of Black joy as resistance, revolution, and radical self-expression. Moving beyond narratives of trauma and struggle, this collection brings together twenty-eight voices sharing our personal experiences of finding, creating, and nurturing joy.
In my chapter, My Ancestors Whisper in the Trees, I explored the deep, healing relationship between Black joy, nature, and precolonial spirituality. Through personal reflection and ancestral wisdom, I played with how reconnecting with the natural world offers profound pathways to healing and self-discovery.
Drawing from my own journey and our ancestral knowledge, I offer how engaging with nature can become an act of resistance and reclamation. I explore how precolonial spiritual practices, rooted in our relationship with land and trees, can transform our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.
This chapter is an invitation to rediscover joy through the whispers of ancestors in rustling leaves, the wisdom held in ancient earth, and the healing potential of reconnecting with nature's rhythms. It's my meditation on how returning to these fundamental relationships can help us reimagine and rebuild our connection to both land and self.