Welcome to My Blog
Welcome to My Blog Donna December 8, 2021 In this, my first post, it gives me great pleasure to feature an organization that, for over forty years, has been doing tremendously important work in the...
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Honoring Frank Smith, Known as “Big Black” Donna February 11, 2022 After I left Aesthetic Realism in September 2001 and began to mobilize within New York City’s exceedingly diverse Black community,...
View ArticleMy Brother’s Parting Gift: Giving Life to Others
My Brother’s Parting Gift: Giving Life to Others Donna April 11, 2022 In recognition of April as National Donate Life Month, I’m posting the article I wrote in honor of my younger brother, Eric...
View ArticleWe Want You to Help Us, Not Us Have to Help You!
We Want You to Help Us, Not Us Have to Help You! Donna May 21, 2022 In the Cultic Studies Journal Volume 14, Number 1, 1997 special issue titled Women Under the Influence: A Study of Women’s Lives in...
View ArticleComing Out a Second Time at Church of the Holy Apostles
Coming Out a Second Time at Church of the Holy Apostles Donna June 1, 2022 Up until my late teens, I was secretly worried that there was something terribly wrong with me that made me incapable of love...
View ArticleIn Celebration of Juneteenth: Why I Support Reparations to American...
In Celebration of Juneteenth: Why I Support Reparations to American Descendants of Slavery Donna June 14, 2022 Seeing as how my refusal to remain silent regarding reparations for slavery was the...
View ArticleHonoring Kenton Kingsley Kirby: A True Good Samaritan
Honoring Kenton Kingsley Kirby: A True Good Samaritan By Donna Posted on February 2, 2023 As this nation celebrates Black History Month, I want to do so by honoring Kenton Kingsley Kirby, one of the...
View ArticleAnother Manhattan Cult Exposed Masterfully in Spencer Schneider’s Memoir
Another Manhattan Cult Exposed Masterfully in Spencer Schneider's Memoir Donna March 1, 2023 In the process of working on my memoir in which I tell of my grueling years in Aesthetic Realism – first...
View ArticleThe Circle of Life
The Circle of Life Donna April 3, 2023 If you’re visiting my website and reading my blogs, I assume that you, like me, are a person who wants to use your life – and, if possible, your death – to do...
View ArticleEpiscopal Diocese of New York Apologizes for Its Complicity in Slavery
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View ArticleHonoring Black History Month: Reexamining My Use of the Words “Black” and“White”
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