Sunday's Spirit Speaking
Change has been tapping at our kitchen windows, family. Heard her? ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
She not tapping with that polite, "may I come in" knock either. Sounds more like that Trinidad rain my mother tells me about - sudden, heavy, but... necessary. This downpour ⛈️ got me reaching for my Octavia E. Butler, thumbing through the dog-eared pages of Parable of the Sower until my fingers landed on Lauren Olamina's truth: "God is Change." And indeed it is!
While executive orders erase us from America's corporate consciousness, amongst other things, I'm watching our digital daughters dance. This week alone, DaVonna May and Bree Nachelle turned algorithms into altars, GPT into gospel. Y'all seen what they've been cooking? 👩🏾💻 'It Girl' GPT speaking our language, Mindful Moments GPT holding our healing. That's that kitchen alchemy my Grandma Cook whispered about - turning their roadblocks into our renaissance... into freedom songs.
And speaking of freedom songs - not only will Toshi Reagon be our special guest, the first week of February to set off Black History Month, Verizon done gone and laid out a WHOLE. TECH. FEAST.
Skill Forward is free as salvation for everyone 17 and up. They have certifications in everything from AI to cybersecurity. We be on it, so there’s already a Digital Kitchen study circle for us.
Join right here after you sign up. Because my spirit knows what my DNA remembers: it used to be illegal for us to read, but once we did… okayyyyy! So, yeah, folks in power positions certainly don’t want us learning to code. But we are builders, not borrowers. We are creators, not followers! 🧠💻 Lean and learn in this safe space built by us.
But here's the brown sugar in the jerk sauce: Goldman Sachs saw your girl's vision for Sisterhood Sit-in 💜 and our Digital Kitchen and invited us into their accelerator program. And not because we're perfect (how many of ya'll heard about last week's burnt biscuits and spilled milk?) but because we're persistent.
We out here like Digital Tubman, building an infrastructure that can't be dismantled by decree. We are cooking up a community that won't be contained or chained by policy. Feel me?
Pull up at 4PM EST, for our Digital Sunday Dinner. Click into DaVonna's second helpings of Tuesday's wisdom.
And then on TUESDAY, January 28th, tap into Crystal Winstead, ‘The Inclusion Lady’ is gonna help us wade through these post-DEI waters with grace and grit.
The Sisterhood Sit-In app is in the oven rising and almost ready and the movement spreading like coconut oil in a 🔥 hot skillet. 100+ new subscribers last week. And while this digital rain keeps falling, while change keeps reshaping our dialogues and directions, I hear Lauren Olamina's whisper getting louder: "All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you."
See, Octavia knew - change ain't something that happens to us. It's the sacred ingredient we've kept tucked in our bosom. When they built walls, we became architects. When they closed doors, we became carpenters. Now they're trying to shut down our seats at their tables? Ha! We didn't like those dry, flavorless, tough, mini portions anyway.
Watch how we turn these ones and zeros into endless rows of harvest.
Remember this: God is Change. And we are its witness, its workers, its wild, wise, and wonderful expression. 🤲🏾🌍
Come season tomorrow with us.
Yours in digital revolution and ancestral power,
Minista Jazz
P.S. Bring a sister, tell a friend.
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