Preface by Dr Akiemi Glenn,
Prologue by Luanna Peterson xi
Introduction 1
Our Stories of Resistance
Chapter 1: Cultural Memory 14
Remembering Our Future by Pumehana Cabral 17
Grandma’s Kitchen by Gabriel Verduzco 19
Brown Girl by Gabriel Verduzco 20
Blood Memories: Of Sun, Soil, and Threaded Rivers by Navjeet Kaur 22
We came to the water. An Ode to Juneteenth by Jade Rhodes 27
The Games We Play by Val Guevarra 28
Art Therapy and Connection in Isolation by Nikki Depriest 33
My Soul by Noah Humphrey 39
Remembrance of Bussed Down Seats by Noah Humphrey 39
This House by Lauren Ballesteros-Watanabe 41
You Are The Magic by Mariana Aq’ab’al Moscoso 44
The Sand Remembers by Karima Daoudi 45
Chapter 2: Accountability 48
Erasure by Joshlyn Noga 51
Ahuihala by Pūlama Long 53
My Own Wallowing Words by Noah Humphrey 54
The Word Rest Is In Resistance by Amy Benson 56
Don’t Call Me Daddy by Alejandra Alexander 61
Commitments of Kuleana by Kealohilani Minami 64
Apologies by Jess Heard 67
The Mirage by Jess Heard 68
Chapter 3: Countering Hegemony 70
Aloha ‘Āina by M. Malia Connor 73
Untitled… by M. Malia Connor 74
Baby’s/Myeni’s Eulogy by Noah Humphrey 75
America by Allison Jacobs 77
Seeding Solidarity by Cassandra Chee 78
A Single Braid of Rice by Ahmad Selim Aboagye Xallen 79
Mi Enemigo by Gabrielle Verduzco 81
Hånom yo’åmte; Manggagaige a’ham guini; I Kåten Kulo’
By Gillian Dueñas 82
How To Play The Game And Win by Luanna Peterson 85
Proud To Be An American by Breena Thompson 88
Chapter 4: Resisting False Binaries 89
A Poem for The Woman I Used To Be by Share Roman 92
Color of our S(k)in by Ku‘uleianuhea Awo-Chun 95
Woke supremacy: “Good people” racism by Lesley G. Harvey 98
Static Dynamic by Deysha Childs 103
Dystopia by Jess Heard 104
A Filipina Hood Feminist Perspective: Youth Culture and The Politics of Feeling Good in Working-Class Kalihi by Demiliza Sagaral Saramosing 105
Black of the Earth in the Black of My Birth
by Ahmad Selim Aboagye Xallen 113
My soul by Ahmad Selim Aboagye Xallen 114
Community Impact Design Projects 116
Hibiscus Hour By Ahmad Selim Aboagye Xallen 119
Six Guideposts for a Decolonial Classroom Philosophy
by Aurora Jeffrey 121
Healing Through Scrapbooking by Breena Thompson 125
Healing Through Planting by Deysha Childs 128
Cultivating Black Joy by Lyric B. 132
Holistic Healing: A Repetition of Simpleness by Noah Humphrey 136
Acknowledgments 139
Meet Our Community Storytellers 141
An Unyielding Truth: A Manifesto for Global Liberation.
by Luanna Peterson 159
Works Cited 164