Doreen Sanfelix

They don't know who Bernice is. No, we didn't have a conversation. None of the guys. Malcolm and I did. Malcolm and I dove. Malcolm and I talked about the spiritual trajectory. We talked about Zora Neale Hurston.

So at the time, I had been reading her letters. Mm-hmm. That thick book of letters, right? This thing that people don't really do to communicate intimacies anymore. But just how bold she was. How playful and mysterious she was. How free. And Bernice is not exactly that. Or perhaps is working to get to that in the best way she can.

So at the time, I had been reading her letters. Mm-hmm. That thick book of letters, right? This thing that people don't really do to communicate intimacies anymore. But just how bold she was. How playful and mysterious she was. How free. And Bernice is not exactly that. Or perhaps is working to get to that in the best way she can.

So at the time, I had been reading her letters. Mm-hmm. That thick book of letters, right? This thing that people don't really do to communicate intimacies anymore. But just how bold she was. How playful and mysterious she was. How free. And Bernice is not exactly that. Or perhaps is working to get to that in the best way she can.

So she felt like an inspiration, like Zora's an inspiration or someone she could have witnessed and seen as a flicker, as a long-form figure. She's the person who's moving back and forth in time and between the spaces that are haunting Bernice. Bernice hadn't been back to Mississippi.

So she felt like an inspiration, like Zora's an inspiration or someone she could have witnessed and seen as a flicker, as a long-form figure. She's the person who's moving back and forth in time and between the spaces that are haunting Bernice. Bernice hadn't been back to Mississippi.

So she felt like an inspiration, like Zora's an inspiration or someone she could have witnessed and seen as a flicker, as a long-form figure. She's the person who's moving back and forth in time and between the spaces that are haunting Bernice. Bernice hadn't been back to Mississippi.

Zora's going back and forth all the time. Bernice is entrenched in traditional Black American Christianity. Zora's leaving the country. She's going to Haiti. She's chilling in the South learning about hoodoo. She's doing all of the things. So that contrast just felt significant to hold on to. Because the other end of the coin is the Captain Maternal that she witnessed in the form of her mother.

Zora's going back and forth all the time. Bernice is entrenched in traditional Black American Christianity. Zora's leaving the country. She's going to Haiti. She's chilling in the South learning about hoodoo. She's doing all of the things. So that contrast just felt significant to hold on to. Because the other end of the coin is the Captain Maternal that she witnessed in the form of her mother.

Zora's going back and forth all the time. Bernice is entrenched in traditional Black American Christianity. Zora's leaving the country. She's going to Haiti. She's chilling in the South learning about hoodoo. She's doing all of the things. So that contrast just felt significant to hold on to. Because the other end of the coin is the Captain Maternal that she witnessed in the form of her mother.

And this is the thing that made her fearful of a true self, of her authentic experience, of acknowledging it outwardly.

And this is the thing that made her fearful of a true self, of her authentic experience, of acknowledging it outwardly.

And this is the thing that made her fearful of a true self, of her authentic experience, of acknowledging it outwardly.

It's a light one. Light work. Oh, my goodness. History is... Largely orally passed down in black communities. Information is spread in all kinds of ways. Musically. In movement. In work. In modes of survival. In the way you practice at home. The way one cleans. That's a specific history. There's a whole bunch. But I think about those when I think about the ways that it's most immediate.

It's a light one. Light work. Oh, my goodness. History is... Largely orally passed down in black communities. Information is spread in all kinds of ways. Musically. In movement. In work. In modes of survival. In the way you practice at home. The way one cleans. That's a specific history. There's a whole bunch. But I think about those when I think about the ways that it's most immediate.

It's a light one. Light work. Oh, my goodness. History is... Largely orally passed down in black communities. Information is spread in all kinds of ways. Musically. In movement. In work. In modes of survival. In the way you practice at home. The way one cleans. That's a specific history. There's a whole bunch. But I think about those when I think about the ways that it's most immediate.

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Yeah. The subconscious is major when it comes to passing on history.