Happy birthday to this forever-young, mother of mine. Wo tsir nkwa! Afenhyiapa oooo!

'I am a Black woman
writing my way to the future...'

-Audre Lorde in The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance
published posthumously in 1993

Welcome to the high holy days, aka Audre Lorde's Birthday Week. I'm alexispauline and I made this collage. <3
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I'm drawing tangles:

There is so much going on in our world. So much loss. So much grief and mourning.

How are folks centering care, joy, and rest?

Please feel free to share in the comments.

So Ghana holds the chair of the 20 most vulnerable countries to climate change, AND is actively destroying its environment (before the climate effects arrive) for peanuts.

My favorite part about being a project manager now is that I know that no one in government knows the difference between launching and landing a project. How is this a fulfillment if the there’s no proof that the goal has actually been met? Who has this benefited directly?

Ghana would like a word

From Ato Sekyi-Otu
modernghana.com/news/1208440/s…

Spending this early evening reading the poetry of C.P. Cavafy to my mother. Grateful.

Since I obviously like aggravation, I've called the NCA regarding Surfline. The network has been down for about 12 days now. NCA itself has been silent on the matter. Buei. (The rumour is MTN disconnected Surfline because Surfline owes MTN money)

Always

I'm so grateful for today. My mother has been quite ill - asthma - for weeks. But she's doing so much better today. The boys and I are enjoying a Christmas meal with her today.

Happy holidays to you and yours!

But Jerome, this 'confidence' wasn't rooted in any systemic change. Just euphoria over an announcement of a staff level agreement and a round of media engagements. I mean...

I repeat

Western aid flowed to churches that oppose LGBTQI+ rights in Ghana - CNN cnn.com/2022/12/13/afr…

🙆🏿‍♀️

Office of the First Daughter?

When we say amanfo should stop supporting The GFA's Black Stars, y'all are like 'Nah'. It's always downhill...