by Tasha Fierce | Apr 28, 2018 | afrofuturism blog series
Human societies are constantly struggling between the past and the future, rarely fully inhabiting the present. We see evidence of this conflict today more plainly than ever, as climate change threatens humanity’s long-term survival while U.S. politics is...
by Tasha Fierce | Jul 12, 2017 | my kind of crazy, science and technology, writing on writing
I am a child of the Internet: I first started using my dad’s Apple IIe when I was about 6, and two years later I was firing up ye olde 2600 baud modem on my mom’s new Packard Bell 386 to try out Prodigy for DOS. It was 1988, before the WWW was even...
by Tasha Fierce | May 5, 2017 | disability, my kind of crazy
For the last 5 weeks, I have been psych med free. I’m kind of ecstatic. I’ve been on some kind of psychiatric medication since I was 14 years old. I’m 37 now. For nearly 23 years of my life – the majority – I’ve lived under a kind...
by Tasha Fierce | Jul 9, 2016 | black liberation, racism & white supremacy
I love Black people. It’s a learned love, a fought-over love, a bittersweet love, but ultimately, a fulfilling love. Blackness has been like this beautiful thing that I don’t want to cheapen by forcing myself onto it. I keenly understand that my experience...
