Month: July 2021

• Fatphobia, Cultural Appropriation, and Other Touchpoints in American Yoga: A Review of Jessamyn Stanley’s ‘Yoke’

  

  After reading Yoke, I can’t say that I have all the answers – but doling out answers isn’t the point of the book. More often than not, Stanley doesn’t recommend a path of action or a road to follow. Instead, she offers her own personal self-examination as a path for the reader to take or leave.

  Irie.

  July 26, 2021

  blog, wellness

  fatphobia, jessamyn stanley, self-care, yoga journal

• Making My Peace with the South

  

  The South is both my heartache and my home. It’s a paradox, I know, but I’m a Southerner, and contradiction is my love language.

  Irie.

  July 19, 2021

  race, style

  black southerner, blacks in the south, it's a southern thing, southern culture, southerner, the south

• We Could All Be Free: Critical Race Theory and Schools

  

  At a recent school board meeting, a cadre of mostly white conservative Christians spoke against critical race theory. I couldn’t help but hear their fear that CRT will endanger their freedom. But the truth, as the saying goes, will set us free – and it’s time we start telling it.

  Irie.

  July 5, 2021

  blog, culture, race

  christians and crt, conservatives and crt, critical race theory, crt, desegregation, diversity, fort worth isd, fort worth school board meeting, heather mcghee, integration, race, race and school, the cost of racism