Dec

14

To Senegal 🇸🇳: Atena’s New Year Adventure is Coming Up!

IF YOU APPRECIATE the creative work Atena is doing, help her get to Senegal next month 🇸🇳 for her (sooner than

Dec 14, 2024

2 min read

Dec

13

Reclaiming the Water: Revisited

IF YOU APPRECIATE the creative work Atena is doing, you might be interested in helping her make it to Senegal

Dec 13, 2024

3 min read

Dec

12

Reading for Mid-Atlantic Review in Washington DC: ‘Letter to My Eldest Ancestor’

If this work resonates with you, please consider supporting my upcoming trip to a writers’ retreat in Senegal next month,

Dec 12, 2024

1 min read

Nov

18

Welcome! I’m Atena, a Black Cultural Worker…

Hey folks! Welcome to my blog! Here’s a video from my Patreon to learn a bit more about me

Nov 18, 2024

Nov

15

ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE: There is no "them."

Now, lissen...

Nov 15, 2024

6 min read

Nov

10

Grounding & Direction for Tired People Who Care: Fall Newsletter

"I am tiret. With a 'T.'"

Nov 10, 2024

6 min read

Oct

16

Small Comfort: A Poem Inspired by Wadea al-Fayoume

This week marks one year since the brutal, devastating murder of little Wadea al-Fayoume. Wadea was six years old when

Oct 16, 2024

1 min read

Aug

05

Happy Fadesgiving! on Patreon

[Image: The design from Atena’s Montgomery Pride collection depicts a white abstract boat dock next to black waves, with

Aug 5, 2024

2 min read

Aug

02

Poems For All: This Little Spite of Mine…

[Video thumbnail image: Collage: A Black Power fist forms the trunk of a tree, with neon glowing black and white

Aug 2, 2024

3 min read

Jul

03

Atena doesn't use Substack anymore...

And hasn't for some time.

Jul 3, 2024

1 min read