Kindred Spirits: A Convergence of African American Quilters in Durham, North Carolina is set for June 19-21, 2025. This year’s theme is Space and Time: Quilting Afrofuturism, and we’re beyond […]
Telling Herstory: Archiving as Resistance
Hi beloveds, I hope this message finds you well or at least well enough. March was a busy month so I thought it would be great to spend April telling […]
Contemplation, Community, and the Illusion of Control: Reflections from A Black Mystic
Hi beloveds, Words have been difficult for me lately. My life is words and yet for a few weeks now words have been a deep struggle for me as our […]
Space and Time–Quilting Afrofuturism
From June 19-21, 2025, African American quilters will gather in Durham, NC, for Kindred Spirits: A Convergence of African Quilters. The theme for the conference is Space and Time–Quilting Afrofuturism. […]
Resourced to Be A Resource: Creating a World Where ALL Can Thrive
Hi beloveds, In early December I was asked to deliver the homily for a Blue Christmas worship service. Blue Christmas gatherings, typically held on the winter solstice night, were created […]
Tell It Anyway: Sacred Stories and gOD-Talk
Hi beloveds, On Friday, October 18, 2024, the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice and the National Museum of African American History and Culture invited members of the […]
Stars Will Guide You Home
Editor’s Note: Amber Sayer is one of the three winners of the RCWMS 2024 Essay Contest, selected for her awe-inspiring reflection on the theme of darkness and night, inspired by […]
Reflections on Suffering: A Cross Disciplinary Conversation
Hi beloveds, On Sunday, September 29, the Resource Center’s Artist in Residence, M.J. Sharp, gathered us together to discuss something people rarely gather to talk about voluntarily: suffering. As we […]
The Cave
Editor’s Note: Rainbow Medicine-Walker is one of the three winners of the RCWMS 2024 Essay Contest, selected for her awe-inspiring reflection on the theme of darkness and night, inspired by […]
Dancing with Fire
Editor’s Note: Keeka May is one of the three winners of the RCWMS 2024 Essay contest, selected for her compelling reflection on the theme of darkness and night, inspired by […]
With Our Hands: Quilting Communities that Flourish
As many of you know, a few weeks ago we hosted the Jereann King Johnson Documentary Fundraising Event a few weeks ago at The Fruit. It was a beautiful evening. In conversation with Dr. Chelsea Yarborough over dinner, I thought she raised a poignant reflection about the connections between quilting and community. I hope you will find some illumination from our conversation that I recorded in a moment of spontaneity below.