I just got back from a WONDERFUL experience at Oberlin College. Jack Skelton/the LGBT & Queer/Questioning Community Coordinator for Oberlin’s Multicultural Resource Center HOOKED ME UP YA’LL!! Jack is a graduate from UT Austin, so it was especially cool to see him making change/Working in such a beautiful way-embraced by the lovely community at Oberlin.

I visited Dr. Meredith Gadsby and Dr. Wendy Kozol’s classes and did a reading in the Afrikan Heritage House of which Courtney Patterson is The Faculty-in-Residence.

My visit was part of the MRC’s My Name Is My Own Speaker Series. After my reading I asked if anyone in the audience wanted to share/take the mic and Haydee Souffrant just tore the spot up with song and verse!My artist friend Kantara Souffrant took me to hang out at Ade’s Place/a store full of amazing treasures from different parts of Africa. Ade’s Place is owned by Oberlin’s Artist-in-Residence of African American Studies Adenike Sharpley.

I met mystery writer Joanne Dobson who happened to be visiting campus and I crossed paths with poet/educator/performer kay ulanday barrett who was arriving to perform for the MRC the night I left.You know I do love me some good times/great coffee/good eats/and great hospitality/and they got all that DOWN at the MRC! Yessuh/sho nuff/indeed…I had a great time!