Author: Starlette Thomas, Race Abolitionist

Seeking to lead words and people to their highest and most authentic expression, I am the principal architect of a race/less world.

Was I Even Here?

.Reading time 4 minutes.

I love history. I love the past because of the lessons that can be learned, the experiences that can be shared and the power of inspiration that transcends time, touching our hearts and making us all witnesses to the greatness and the blessedness and sadly even the horror of being human. I hate history. I hate […]

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The Painful Familiar

.Reading time 6 minutes.

The painful familiar. It is the concept that I discuss in the introduction of my book Conscious, a description of the racialized life and specifically, for me socially defined blackness. Accepting a black identity creates more questions than answers and brings more uncertainty than assurance. There is no confidence in being black as the identity is not constant but […]

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A Cure For Race

.Reading time 3 minutes.

Conscious (kon’shas), adj. 1. Aware of one’s own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings 2.  Fully aware of or sensitive to something: conscious of one’s own faults. 3. Having the mental faculties fully active: He was fully conscious during the operation.  4. Known to oneself; felt: conscious guilt. 5. Aware of what one is doing: a conscious liar. […]

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In My Right Mind

.Reading time 8 minutes.

“Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes. As soon as He got out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met Him. He lived in the tombs. No one was able to restrain him anymore– even with chains– […]

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The Mind’s Service

.Reading time 8 minutes.

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” ~Romans 12.2, King James Version “Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], […]

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