Hi Reader! Reaching toward our dreams offers a beautiful sense of liberation and freedom—a reminder that life is so much more than the work we do. While work is a necessary part of life, it’s worth considering how often we work so hard for others and neglect our own need for dreaming, rest, and joy. Dreaming, resting, and embracing joy are not indulgences. They’re powerful acts of resistance against white supremacy and patriarchal oppression. They remind us of our humanity and our right to...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, I must share with you a quote from a recent lecture I did last week: "She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it." - From Beloved by Toni Morrison In this lecture on Dreaming as Radical Resistance, I spoke about Beloved by Toni Morrison and the visuals from Lemonade as sacred text because of how they tell us where we are going, how we are headed there, ways to deepen our dreaming, how...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! I hope you are well. This letter is jam packed full of some of the meaningful conversations I’ve been having recently. Please enjoy the insights from the videos below, and after listening, check out our featured read from All The Black Girls Are Activists, "In Pursuit of Madness." Please donate to Emma’s Legacy Foundation, my 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your support directly empowers us to continue supporting Black Women in Diasporic Healing. To invite me to your podcast, email...
6 months ago • 2 min read
"My name is EbonyJanice. I go by EbonyJanice. Which means you should call me EbonyJanice." Hi Reader! I hope your are well. In All The Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance, I touch on the historical impact white supremacy has on naming: The intentional stripping and renaming of our African ancestors was used to remove identity to dehumanize and assimilate them. White people re-naming others is a deep-rooted relationship with their...
7 months ago • 1 min read
“Do something daily for freedom. Freedom is a forever work. Either you resign time to do something for freedom daily, or you are as much of the problem as those who verbally say they hate my people.” EbonyJanice Hi Reader, A great deal has been going on socially and politically. We are deeply impacted and saddened by the loss of Sonya Massey and what her tragic and untimely death says about this white supremacist society Black Women have to survive in. We extend our condolences to her family,...
8 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! Hacked by your team: Congratulations to EbonyJanice for becoming the Gold 2023 INDIES Winner! We are extremely proud of you! Join the $4 All The Black Girls Are Activists Patreon Tier today. Attention Podcast Hosts: I have a personal goal of being interviewed on 100 podcasts in the next six months. If you have a podcast or platform please invite me to collaborate with you. We will have a good time! 1. Email me at the information on the graphic below or 2. Visit www.ebonyjanice.com...
9 months ago • 1 min read
Art by @jrosestuff Hi Reader, June is the perfect month to talk about our bodies, so lets unpack In Pursuit of My Body from my latest book, All The Black Girls Are Activists. In her essay entitled “Sin, Nature, and Black Women’s Bodies,” Delores S. Williams asserts that there’s a “relation between the defilement of Earth’s body and the defilement of Black Women’s bodies.” Historically The slaver relied on the Black Woman’s body to reproduce other captives and produce the enslaver’s...
10 months ago • 1 min read
Congratulations to EbonyJanice for becoming a USA Today Best Selling Author, and a Two- time INDIES Finalist! - TFPP Team Hi Reader! How are we already in April?! Most of you have received your free book in the mail, and this is a great time to start reading it! This month, walk with me as we unpack the third essay in my latest book All The Black Girls Are Activists entitled, In Pursuit of Loudness: “My cousin Latresha Gowdy had green, red, and yellow hair when we were teenagers. Before I...
12 months ago • 1 min read
Happy Women's History Month! All The Black Girls Are Activists Through the All The Black Girls Are Bestsellers Campaign, 50,000 books written by 10 Black Femme authors have been provided to over 175 nonprofit organizations, 5,900 avid readers, 20 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), educational organizations, and individual households across the United States. Despite all five titles reporting enough sales to make The New York Times Bestsellers List and proving that, truly,...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read