Brea Baker 💕💚

It’s your birthright. Don’t hustle yourself to death. #BlackHistoryMonth Edit: follow @thenapministry !

What is ROOTED about exactly? (Explainer post) 🤎 Rooted makes another case for reparations as a racial, economic, and environmental justice policy. It is impossible to understand the twenty-first-century racial wealth gap without first unpacking the historic attacks on Indigenous and Black land ownership. Who owns what on stolen land? Who owns what with stolen labor? How has extractive treatment of the land hurt people, animals, and the planet? To answer these questions, we must be willing to face one of this nation’s first sins: stealing and hoarding the land. 🤎 Rooted traces the experiences of my own family’s history of having land violently taken from them, in Kentucky and North Carolina, to explore historic attacks on Black land ownership and understand the persistent racial wealth gap. It also centers their resistance and stewardship as acts of radical love. 🤎 Beyond examining the effects of the violence of centuries past, Rooted is a testament to the deep resilience of Black farmers and landowners — like my paternal grandparents — who envisioned an America with them at the center: able to feed, house, and tend to their communities. By bearing witness to their commitment to freedom and reciprocal care for the land—even as it came at great personal cost—we can chart a path forward. 📚 Giveaway time 📚 If you made it this far and this sounds like a book you want to read, go to the link in my bio and enter to win a free copy of ROOTED via @goodreads 💚 enter before March 5th to be one of fifteen winners!

Was 2020 the beginning of your journey towards abolition? Take a walk with me and see a bit of mine. It’s a long and winding journey — I hope you see yourself in it and get new inspiration for going deeper. Link in bio.

Some days I wake up SHOCKED that I am two somebodies’ mama 💛

Spent a few days in the desert with Black women and I came back better for it! Infinite love to my sisters for holding me in all the ways and for this slice of rest by and for us 🤎

Spent an evening at the Georgia Aquarium raising money to fight domestic violence and support survivors. The spirit must’ve really moved me cause I spent a pretty penny and walked away with an inperson book club session with @tayari ! I can’t wait to unpack KIN over wine and food. And I’m even more proud that my reader dreams are also supporting women starting over free of violence and fear. 💙

This week I talked to @freckledwhileblack about Black and Indigenous solidarity for my Substack. Author and activist Brea Baker and I talk about shared histories and solidarity—if we want to dismantle this thing called white supremacy, we need each other. Watch the whole video or read a transcript at gohini.substack.com (or at the link in my bio!)

It’s #BlackMaternalHealthWeek and it hits different this year… I’ve been a mom of two for almost 6 months now and it’s been a *whirlwind.* Through the grueling breast feeding journey and sleepless nights, watching my boys fall in love with each other has been the greatest gift. Their brotherhood is so special, loving, and kind. This week also comes at a time when high profile, well educated Black mothers are being murdered by their Black husbands, boyfriends, and exes. I think of what it took for these women to fight the world every day while climbing the ladder to come home and fight some more. To mother through that constant fear and violence. To know that if this is happening to women with visibility and means, we already know it’s happening even more to working class Black women, trans Black women, Black women living with religious shame, etc. Mothering is the most important, most under appreciated, most difficult job out there. For Black women, this is especially true because bringing children into the world can be fatal. Surviving that to then mother through inflation, mass incarceration, police brutality, immigration enforcement, school shootings, shitty food, and everything else… WHEW! My heart is heavy. And still, I mother. I am more committed than ever to the task of racing my two beautiful Black boys into safe, compassionate, thoughtful, protective adults. Doing so will be one of my greatest contributions to this Earth.

Exploration doesn’t have to be inherently exploitative or extractive. It can be beautiful if we make it so. 🌌🌌🌌 The latest edition of For Kinfolk, By Kinfolk is now live on Substack. Writer-In-Residence Brea Baker @freckledwhileblack reflects on NASA’s recent Artemis II mission through the lens of the works and words of Octavia Butler. Read her reflections in full at the 🔗 in bio.

Can’t wait to dive in! You all need to know our sister @freckledwhileblack . She’s brilliant and dope and one of the voices we need to be listening to. Follow her. Buy her book and check her out!

Last slide is me handing the Sun Her “baddies” chain for popping out and reminding us that life is worth living — and fighting for. Thanks for the invitation to reject capitalism and embrace wonder 😍

I love Black love so bad, but especially when it’s family. Radiance and Keith, cheers to forever!!! #CrumpsAtLast 🥂😍