Author: mamello m

Intergenerational Trauma

I am tired… of workplace macroaggressions masquerading as microaggressions- and I’M crazyof having my reactions policedof white supremacy masquerading as democracyof negropeans, coons and all manners of house slavesof having…
We did not forgive them, they knew that we were dead. Dead people do not forgive. They concede defeat.

“No chains around my feet, But I’m not free I know I am bound here in captivity” I used to listen to “Concrete Jungle” by Bob Marley and the Wailers,…
It is perhaps ominous that so many of us come into this world crying

It is perhaps ominous that so many of us come into this world crying This world that shuns difference How can I not cry coming into this world? This world…
No White Woman Formed against Me Will Prosper against My Mustards

“Do you guys realise this is an open space?!” “Be quiet” “The young radicals” “You have to allow everyone to voice their opinions” “You wear such colourful clothes, I could…
Chase those baldheads out of town!

Baldheads “Crazy Baldheads” by Bob Marley and the Wailers, was released in 1976 on the Album, “Rastaman Vibration”, it was written by Rita Marley and Vincent Ford. Its one of…
Overcoming the Standards of Colonial Modernity

Today I had several conversations with friends around one issue, the codification or lack of codification of African knowledge, African history, African feminism. Someone had again asked us to elaborate…
They Call Me Baartman

Self love is unlearning the centuries old myths of black undesirability, Unlearning self-hatred Self-love is Sara-Baartma
"Start where you are…Just…start."

Second-guessing yourself is one of the biggest deterrents to living. All the time, I put off applying for jobs, funding, schools, I stopped painting, writing just because of the fear…
Learning to unlearn. An act of becoming

I have been deliberating for years about starting a blog, as a teenager I started one then just let it go. I could never find the time, the energy or…