About me
My background
I am a mother, a writer, a feminist and a crone with a theological degree and forty years of experience working to end sexual assault, domestic violence and elder abuse. Empathy and spirituality inform my work for gender, racial, economic and environmental justice.
My journey
As a cisgender white woman married to a Trinidadian man with two racially mixed children, I continue to learn about the multi-layered impacts of racism, heterosexism, and transphobia. I am forever indebted to BIPOC and LGBTQ people in my life and the courageous writers among us who are correcting intentional historical invisibility so we can build a cooperative and inclusive future.
My vision
My writing touches on the personal and political. Whether writing about how friends and family can support LGBTQ people, exploring the need to own our racist history so we can build an equitable future, or honoring nature and urging action on climate change, I embrace the values my mother taught me: treat others the way you would like to be treated. I invite you to join the conversation.
Must read Authors. Educators. Historians.
Ibram X. Kendi
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America;
How to be An Antiracist
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents;
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Clint Smith
Isabel Wilkerson
Clint Smith
How the Word is Passed: Reckoning with the History of Slavery in America
Ijeoma Oluo
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
So You Want to Talk About Race
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
An Indigenous People's History of the United States
Annette Gordon-Reed
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
My Book
This memoir and guidebook explores the journey I took to move from denial to acceptance and then advocacy with my transgender son. I wrote My Daughter He to help parents, family members, friends and educators be better equipped and more informed in supporting gender nonconforming or transgender loved ones.