

I Woke Up in America.
I woke up in America today. I woke up to the sound of my husband retching. He was (is?) having a flare-up of his unexplained cyclic...
Martha Essi Williams
Nov 7, 2024


Daughter of Immigrants
Young Black girls, those born to parents with foreign birth certificates and even more foreign values, aren't born for themselves.
Martha Essi Williams
Jun 19, 2024


FREE(DOM) WRITING! #1
I haven't posted anything on this blog in 9000 years, and we are going to focus on something else because aren't there more important...
Martha Essi Williams
Mar 10, 2024


The Role Grief Holds in Our Movements
(This is a post I started to write months ago as we were going into December, hence the discussion of weather and timelines that may not...
Martha Essi Williams
Mar 26, 2023


Developing My Personal Praxis of Abolition, Transformation, & Black Radical Collectivism
Hi, friends and readers! For however long I have been writing in this blogging space, I have been using it primarily as a way of...
Martha Essi Williams
Aug 20, 2022


What Can We Do?: Desire for Action and Thoughts on the Roles of Policy and Public Health Research
I've always thought that research was a "cool" and essential way to prove that we need certain systems-level and community-level changes....
Martha Essi Williams
May 26, 2022