For The Worldbuilders

What are our collective ceremonies? I decided I didn’t want to disrespect the question by providing an answer. When searching for the “official language” to address the question, the only thing that came out was a poem. A poem about how poetry has saved my life. How it preserves life and provides oxygen when suffering is the ground and time is a trickster. Maybe the poem is the collective ceremony...

This week's episode is about the practices that help us remember the world we need is the world we have. What came up is the realization that I am more skilled than last year at tending to the garden of my internal and eternal possibility — no longer a captive to external validation — I have cultivated practices that return me to myself, my body, and my values again and again. What also came u...

This week's episode is about the ecosystem of creative practice, mycelial media stewardship, and it’s containers. When I think about the next decade of my creative practice and how I imagine making room for my breath — I want to continue to move away from content creation and launches and move toward mycelial media and stewardship where my writing practice is the mother tree. What's the mo...

I’ve been thinking a lot about how our body is an interface for learning and creating alongside our ecosystems. In the Future Organisms workshop that I attended in Colorado last week, while in conversation with a cheese maker, ceramicist and computational biologist, I reflected on how “craft” is another word for using our body as an interface for engaging with the material of our ecosystem and how...

Timnit Gebru is fired and Geoffrey Hinton left. Read Timnit's story here and read Geoffrey's story here then reflect on the contrast. I also invite you to read the Seeda School newsletter referenced in this podcast, Surprise! They're Late: No surprise, black feminism is right on time . Due to the commitment to care rooted in the research of Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Dr. Safiya Noble, Timnit G...

Reflecting on the possibilities of JavaScript and how one might teach it, I returned to Octavia Butler, and in returning to Butler, I returned to consent and in returning to consent I returned to my body savoring all the ways I have finally given myself permission to change and be changed. Read the entire newsletter and footnotes here . Register here for this free JavaScript workshop on Tuesday, M...

Are You an Aspiring Software Engineer, Freelancer or Entrepreneur? I want to invite you to join us for the upcoming Discovery Workshop where we will get clarity on your coding curiosity, story, and goals, in order to learn how Seeda School can help with all 3. Register here: https://www.seedaschool.com/discovery-workshop

Plant the seed of your curiosity in nutrient rich soil. I hope you’ll join me in this upcoming discovery workshop, Learn How to Build a Black Feminist Coding Project in One Month , taking place over Zoom on Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 at 6-7PM EST. Register here and together we will explore your curiosity in code, uncover the stories that have stopped you from learning how to code, and learn how See...

My biggest fear isn’t failure or Seeda School “not working” or “not meeting my needs” — the success of Seeda School is inevitable. I know I’m called to this work and there is no “failure” inside calling, only lessons. My biggest fear is actually being the creator of a job I hate, being the facilitator of work that is unsatisfying or exhausting. Which is truly only a failure in boundaries and the c...

I only have the capacity for 12 more learners who are curious about learning to code through a black feminist lens so please book a free consultation call to see if this offering is aligned with your needs and ask any questions I didn’t answer in this episode. Soft, Where? Is a podcast where I talk about my journey toward finding softness inside technology. This podcast is presented by Seeda Schoo...

(Loose) Transcript: 007. 3 Affirmations for Self Compassion Welcome to the Soft, Where? podcast where I talk about my journey toward finding softness inside technology. This podcast is presented by Seeda School , a skill building platform for learning how to code through a black feminist lens. I am currently offering 1:1 coaching for black feminists looking to develop a coding portfolio of 5 proje...

Soft, Where? is a weekly podcast and oral journal where I reflect on finding softness inside of software engineering. I invite you to reflect on the questions at the end of each episode in the comments or via email. Below you can find a loose outline and essay version of the episode to read while you listen or share screenshots of on social media. I also invite you to open this episode in apple po...