Currently is this informative timeline only no commentary. 1. The “original lines” (post-2020 census, 2021–2022 Legislature map) After the 2020 census, Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature drew a new congressional map. What it looked like: * 7 total U.S. House districts * Only 1 majority-Black district * Black population in Alabama: ~27%
I was a super shy and sensitive kid. My family environment was much like a bit of a roller coaster. My parents had not healed their wounds and passed them onto my sister and me. I was super drawn to animals, always, and was a natural vegetarian, refusing to eat
What if you changed your phone number? But then none of the apps would connect and you would have to reset everything. It’s too much work on top of the work you already aren’t getting done. What if you blocked the two people who reach out left? What’
I didn't grow up a witness to much lawn mowing. We rented an apartment and my grandparents were Italian immigrants with a fondness for asphalt. I was always proud to be a concrete city girl, my few experiences with nature being limited to short drives through New Hampshire
Well, I'll be dam'd, we all will in the name of progress. That’s the take the federal government of America has been spinning since Wilson Dam’s first conception was approved in 1916 and the project was completed in 1925: 9 years from approval, 7
The natural element of water is the uniqueness and ability to sustain life here on Earth, it is distributed via pathways, like a vein system in a human body. 100 years ago, the creation of utility companies in the name of progress required redistributing this water and creating new paths,
Looking back 16 is too young to have a lover no wonder high school sweethearts either bond forever or blister from burning out. But my dad had left, not by choice, by result. And a woman, a growing woman needs containment. Without it she is subject to much exposure relationally
Current events, what is happening currently? where are you located currently? meaning right now. What is the tide marked as? They have a flag system at the ocean each color tells you merit of safety, instructing your direction. They are monitoring the current, the water directions and pressures as they
Foundations, do you have one? If so, is strong, or barely holding on? I have an eclectic foundation, its walls are made of various slabs, blocks, tape, and paints, that I gathered here there and everywhere to create my foundation. At first glance it may look patchy, but I have
I think naturally as humans we are drawn to transformation through color, painting, makeup, even tanning. We associate color with beauty, and it happens very young, watching insects change color, watching leaves change tone. Of course, we would seek to mimic or mirror our own. My first reflection on makeup
Recently I wrote about both topics of the need for and importance of physical health of the individual in response to daily function, collective need and emergencies. Following that a large portion of the country spanning regions with different climates with a snow and ice storm we name Winter Storm
There is a low quality of life across tiers of social classes globally. We have stretched the collective bend to greatly and it's time to pull back, can we all just have a collective I give in? Our people our hungry, children with growling stomach looking at dissociated