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Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa

What Is An Organizer?

I was asked to submit something to a zine on power, accountability & organizing so I edited down this series of thoughts to fit the word…

Jun 27, 2021

What Is An Organizer?

Jun 27, 2021

Writing is not therapy, but it is/can be therapeutic

“Perhaps the act of writing itself was a kind of therapy” -Octavia Butler

Jan 14, 2019

Writing is not therapy, but it is/can be therapeutic

Jan 14, 2019

The Gospel of Colonization

If you saw any of the shows on my Becoming//Black Spring Tour, there is a 50/50 chance you heard me recite “The Gospel of Colonization”…

May 19, 2018

The Gospel of Colonization

May 19, 2018

hunger

how you treat a woman should never be based on her proximity to another’s humanity.

Mar 24, 2018

Mar 24, 2018

Yo Masculinity So Fragile

it would starve in a house made of kitchens (it seems to only knows how to make meals of women’s bodies),

Mar 1, 2018

Mar 1, 2018

Here’s my TEDWomen Talk: “Black Life at the Intersection of Birth & Death”

Read the story behind the TEDWomen talk here

Feb 1, 2018

Feb 1, 2018

My 1st Night in South Africa (prose/poem)

after crossing waters where my kin still stand, unable to find eternal rest on ocean beds, i find myself floating in a sea of Black…

Jan 5, 2018

My 1st Night in South Africa (prose/poem)

Jan 5, 2018

#TrustBlackWomen: Why I’m Standing With Rodneka

Imagine you’re driving home from work. Expecting an uneventful ride, you’re surprised to see the blinding glare of police lights in front…

Dec 4, 2017

Dec 4, 2017

I was invited to give a TEDWomen talk — then asked to “cut Black Lives Matter” from it

Follow my work/join my newsletter at www.freequencyspeaks.com | instagram: @MwendersInSuspenders |Facebook Artist Profile — Venmo…

Dec 3, 2017

I was invited to give a TEDWomen talk — then asked to “cut Black Lives Matter” from it

Dec 3, 2017

Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa

Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa

www.freequencyspeaks.com • writer•builder•breaker•truth teller•author of Becoming//Black•panAfricanist•prolly wearing a cape but can't save no one but myself

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