Not Myth, Not Demonic: Indigenous Beliefs in a Colonized World

It’s 1492, in Ayiti. We’re making cassava, children are playing, and our Kacike is sharing knowledge. We then see a huge canoe approaching our shores. We’re used to visitors — we often traded with our brothers and sisters in Borikén — but these new visitors looked different. Little did we know that our kindness and […]
When Libraries Learn to Buzz

I once thought libraries were burial grounds for knowledge — until I heard the sound of bees. Yes, they are quiet. Shelves stand like fences, books lined like monuments to distant voices. But learning in such stillness feels heavy, a silence so delicate it guards order more than it invites discovery. Then I visited into […]