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Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa

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…

6 min readJun 27, 2021

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What Is An Organizer?

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Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa

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

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

8 min readJan 14, 2019

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

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Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa

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”…

6 min readMay 19, 2018

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The Gospel of Colonization

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Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa

hunger

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

1 min readMar 24, 2018

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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),

2 min readMar 1, 2018

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Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa

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

Read the story behind the TEDWomen talk here

1 min readFeb 1, 2018

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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…

4 min readJan 5, 2018

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

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#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…

1 min readDec 4, 2017

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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…

8 min readDec 3, 2017

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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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