blackgirl on mars: notes on a life in copenhagen (or how my alienation brings me closer to people).

It's been a little over three weeks now since the official publication of my book, and it truly has been an overwhelmingly positive experience.  At first, I was a bit intimidated  - but then I reminded myself that that was all part of the process and in fact a sign that I was doing the right thing.  Since its publication I hear from someone every day (thank you readers!) about how much they connected with Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son. This feedback from you the readers gift me with the experience of realising that I have been successful in what I had set out to do.  This is no small thing. There has been a lot happening, so I'll have to follow this up with more posts. One of the themes in my book is that of radical heal, or as Alanna Lockward reminded me this past BE.BOP 2108: Coalitions Facing White Innocence (more on this later!) decolonial healing.  This book is a physical manifestation of a chapter in my life bei...

I was featured on Black Girls Allowed! "I wrote  Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son  not just for my son, but for all the children of the so-called west, so that there is balance to the lies that they are taught in school. As an educator, I felt it was my duty to offer another perspective, a “lion learns to write” sort of action, a decolonial practice, a practice that has taught me that it is not politics that will set us free, but a re-spiritualization process to counteract what my friend Food Justice Warrior Kelly Curry calls the “despiritualization” of our culture."  click on the link below for more:  https://dangerouslee.biz/lesley-ann-brown/

https://soundcloud.com/bridgeradio/intersectional-ways-of-working-together In this 4th program in the seria 'Staying with the trouble's of privileges in common spaces' by the bridge radio, we will be focusing on intersectionality and how to develop intersectional practices in groups that work together across privilege. We will be talking about how and why intersectionality is important to think at the core of how we think and organize our social struggles. Our guest with us is writer, educater and activist Lesley-Ann Brown who was one of the organiser of women’s march in 2017 in Copenhagen. She will soon be coming out with ther book 'Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son'. We interviewed Lesley Anna brown on her experience and opinion on the topic of intersectionality and working together in activism spaces. We will be talking about decolonisation, reproduction of discrimination and self healing in activist spaces. You will also...

Available from May 15th, 2018  A Trinidadian-American writer and activist explores motherhood, migration, identity, nationhood and how it relates to land, imprisonment, and genocide for Black and Indigenous peoples.  Having moved to Copenhagen, Denmark from Brooklyn over 18 years ago, Brown attempts to contextualise her and her son's existence in a post-colonial and supposedly post-racial world where the very machine of so-called progress has been premised upon the demise of her lineage. Through these letters, Brown writes the past into the present - penned from the country that has been declared "The Happiest Place in the World" - creating a vision that is a necessary alternative to the dystopian one currently being bought and sold. You can pre-order here:  In the UK: You can order here In the US: You can order here