Most people don’t want true freedom for all. They just don’t want to be the most oppressed. It’s not enough to be free of oppression, we must all co-choreograph our freedom dreams alongside each other, weaving love into all of our daily movements.

I am a “Visionary Instigator” of Street Dance Activism and Global Dance Meditation for Black Liberation. My work situates street dance as grassroots political action from my perspectives as a scholar, dancer, and choreographer and my research examines street dance movements in South Central Los Angeles through an autoethnographic and performance studies lens.

I  always wanted to make sure that whatever I spoke to in my dissertation spoke directly to my community, so I had to write about street dance activism, describing it as mechanism to temporize the relationships between identity and difference, between the past and the present, for the future.