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The Reverb

Land Stewardship is a Practice of Liberation

“What does it mean to return? Is return possible? Is it desired? And if it is, under what conditions and for whom?” — Dr. Christina Sharpe

Mar 8, 2023

Land Stewardship is a Practice of Liberation

Mar 8, 2023

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The Reverb

Ancestor Trees

My first tree memory is not my own. It is a story shared by my nana who, along with her younger siblings, was discovered to have taken a…

Jul 21, 2022

Ancestor Trees

Jul 21, 2022

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The Reverb

Octopus Guts: A short story

YOUR FAVORITE MEAL was hash browns with tangy ketchup and it takes me three days to gather all the ingredients. I made the ketchup, making…

Feb 16, 2022

Octopus Guts: A short story

Feb 16, 2022

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The Reverb

Dancing with Earthworms and Tree Aunties

These days, when I am unable to lift my body out of bed, or when light twists into something monstrous and my vision morphs into warning, I…

Dec 15, 2021

Dancing with Earthworms and Tree Aunties

Dec 15, 2021

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ZORA

The Disturbing Erasure of Black Burial Grounds

The gentrification of these once sacred spaces is costing us our culture

Aug 21, 2019

The Disturbing Erasure of Black Burial Grounds

Aug 21, 2019

Amber Butts

Black Hairdressers and Black Clients Save Lives

I have always loved untying knots. Of pulling things apart so that they can form again. I love the excitement of it, the way it eases the…

Jun 11, 2019

Jun 11, 2019

Amber Butts

I Smack My Lips Like My Grandmama

And loss slaps me still. Makes me tongue tied and dizzy.

Apr 9, 2019

Apr 9, 2019

Amber Butts

Non-monogamy

We are encouraged to mark folks’ relationship to us, to always identify in relationship to the other. Upon introductions, we say this is…

Feb 21, 2019

Feb 21, 2019

Amber Butts

There is a smooth point where your brain and heart break at the same time.

Shock. Storm. Stroke. Dementia. Portable oxygen tank. Fly in mouth. Lupus. Diabetes. Ketchup on eggs.

Dec 18, 2018

Dec 18, 2018

Amber Butts

Petty Queen

In the cyber, social and physical world of Radical Black Politics, some of claim (to be) spaces of transformation, of embodiment, of right…

Dec 4, 2018

Dec 4, 2018

Amber Butts

Amber Butts

Amber Butts is a storyteller, cultural strategist, and grief worker. She firmly believes in the bonds of living beings everywhere.

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