after the summer of 2020, and after the very public, very loud, and the very painful outcry for black voices in all spaces, i assessed myself. sitting in santa clarita, desperate to flee back to a place I had once called home, i assessed myself as to where i now fit in our cosmos of social justice and suicide, for i knew the black body was tired and was all too familiar with living in the black skin as a global experience, but specifically in amerikkka.

so when asked about a thesis in which i would leave this sort of small mark on my time here, i thought about black people, and most importantly, black joy. 

this is my love letter to all black people on this planet earth. especially black women. this is my labor to you. i want to make this easier for you and more accessible in anyway possible. 

I'm starting here.

and so as my love letter to black people, especially black women, i wanted to create a syllabus space where we not only dissect portions of the New York Times Bestseller Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown, but that we also create a digital, self-lead and collective course space to explore the major themes of the book in various lessons.it is where we will also continue our mission to support and encourage book clubs to form out of their own natural curiosities, as well as push for and encourage the support of black businesses and black joy.