It is a hallucinogenic fever dream to have the honor of the moniker #PeabodyWinner anywhere in my vicinity. This show and this award mean so much to so many of us and will always be the greatest honor of my life until I die. Y’all gotta update my bio with most legit honorific in the business! My goodness!! Waves change currents everyday. Went from lost at sea to changing the climate. It happened in a snap like a flash flood. #StayReady. Raised glasses to all involved. It took a lot of us to make it possible. Thank you to @peabodyawards and big SALUTE to the whole gang, y’all made history!!! @rogerrosswilliams @onestoryup @drjessicabharris @savyfaby @karisjagger @shoshanaguy @jonclas @cactus.eyelash @lvance2010 @lilfulteezy @serenathesoupbowl No cresting just yet, no rest just yet. New information can cause inflation. Index get reset everyday to paraphrase @fatjoe. Back to the drawing board. #storiesthatmatter
It is a hallucinogenic fever dream to have the honor of the moniker #PeabodyWinner anywhere in my vicinity. This show and this award mean so much to so many of us and will always be the greatest honor of my life until I die. Y’all gotta update my bio with most legit honorific in the business! My goodness!! Waves change currents everyday. Went from lost at sea to changing the climate. It happened in a snap like a flash flood. #StayReady. Raised glasses to all involved. It took a lot of us to make it possible. Thank you to @peabodyawards and big SALUTE to the whole gang, y’all made history!!! @rogerrosswilliams @onestoryup @drjessicabharris @savyfaby @karisjagger @shoshanaguy @jonclas @cactus.eyelash @lvance2010 @lilfulteezy @serenathesoupbowl No cresting just yet, no rest just yet. New information can cause inflation. Index get reset everyday to paraphrase @fatjoe. Back to the drawing board. #storiesthatmatter
This was the year. Hard to believe. Still. If you wrote me a message, I bet I read it. Thank you. At first I tried to reply, but was so overwhelmed by the tenderness of those messages, that I had to tap out. I appreciate you. If my communication has felt flimsier than ever, it has been. Thank you for that grace. I’ve been hiding in plain sight. It’s been a beautiful, but tricky ride. Work that makes it to the mainstream is seen as more valuable. My two cents: My work aint change and they still aint just gon let you in. You can get lucky, which is not a strategy, or learn to pick the lock, in which case, you still gon need some luck. You still need a person in a position of power to lift you up and you better be ready. Stay ready. Control what you can and don’t quit. Be as intentional as one can on social. It can be corrosive once we start comparing. Mind your business, and by that I mean your joy, wishes and commitments. Stories shape our cultural imagination, and also, ruthlessly restrict it. In an era where Black optics are co-opted, High on the Hog will always be the highlight of my life. This will always be the year. I know it’s a hard time. But I want to remind you that no feeling is final. I’m rooting for you in 2022.
This was the year. Hard to believe. Still. If you wrote me a message, I bet I read it. Thank you. At first I tried to reply, but was so overwhelmed by the tenderness of those messages, that I had to tap out. I appreciate you. If my communication has felt flimsier than ever, it has been. Thank you for that grace. I’ve been hiding in plain sight. It’s been a beautiful, but tricky ride. Work that makes it to the mainstream is seen as more valuable. My two cents: My work aint change and they still aint just gon let you in. You can get lucky, which is not a strategy, or learn to pick the lock, in which case, you still gon need some luck. You still need a person in a position of power to lift you up and you better be ready. Stay ready. Control what you can and don’t quit. Be as intentional as one can on social. It can be corrosive once we start comparing. Mind your business, and by that I mean your joy, wishes and commitments. Stories shape our cultural imagination, and also, ruthlessly restrict it. In an era where Black optics are co-opted, High on the Hog will always be the highlight of my life. This will always be the year. I know it’s a hard time. But I want to remind you that no feeling is final. I’m rooting for you in 2022.
Algorithms are people too. And they are institutional. They are made in the likeness of whiteness, to bite Black culture, to stifle revolt. Y’all nostalgic for when it was you and your friends and bad food pics and kittens. We didn’t switch up they just hit us with that new rithim made it more sticky then sold the attention to brands for bands. Alotta folks on IG cuz we gotta eat. I sincerely hope y’all all in touch with this reality and move in a way that prioritizes optimizing for a healthy mind. It’s hard to mind ya business when you checkin everybody else’s. Attention is currency. You gettin paid or played? Young bucks tawnbout disruption. Get hooked on a book.
Someone I revere sent me a message: HELLL YEAHHH PEABODY AWARD NOMINATION!!!! I had to laugh. Like, I know you not talkin to me! Not with a message as lavish as this! It will never seem real. I was just tryna make a footprint in quicksand, a comment in ya byline one time. Now improbable and surreal sound like a refrain but look and sound like aint the same. Ima drink sumn fine, rare and distilled while reciting the names of the crew members and visionaries behind this work like I’m saying grace. Receiving and keeping lots of room for awe and joy and gratitude. Congrats to all involved and thanks to y’all!! More soon! 🖤🖤🖤
Gonna name this week Elation. Nine volumes out and we just made it in at B N! I need to convene with mini-me ASAP. I know I can’t go backwards but if I could, me and that boy would not stop laughing at the things about to happen. And an extra boisterous belly bellow for all the detractors who were adamant that print was dead. Smh. Casey at the cash register asked if I had a Barnes & Noble account. I was like, “Nah, Casey, but I publish this magazine! I’m already doin a lotta business with y’all!” Casey was briefed on Elation Week and gave reciprocal energy. I was swept up in the moment and gave away the magazine I bought for myself from the shelves. I’ve never seen Whetstone with a barcode. Look at us go! We have a campaign at Whetstone to celebrate the occasion. If you take a picture like this at @barnesandnoble you will get Volume 10 on us! Just send your pics to @whetstonemagazine DMs. Floating in an ocean of gratitude. A mood not to lose.
Gonna name this week Elation. Nine volumes out and we just made it in at B N! I need to convene with mini-me ASAP. I know I can’t go backwards but if I could, me and that boy would not stop laughing at the things about to happen. And an extra boisterous belly bellow for all the detractors who were adamant that print was dead. Smh. Casey at the cash register asked if I had a Barnes & Noble account. I was like, “Nah, Casey, but I publish this magazine! I’m already doin a lotta business with y’all!” Casey was briefed on Elation Week and gave reciprocal energy. I was swept up in the moment and gave away the magazine I bought for myself from the shelves. I’ve never seen Whetstone with a barcode. Look at us go! We have a campaign at Whetstone to celebrate the occasion. If you take a picture like this at @barnesandnoble you will get Volume 10 on us! Just send your pics to @whetstonemagazine DMs. Floating in an ocean of gratitude. A mood not to lose.
Gonna name this week Elation. Nine volumes out and we just made it in at B N! I need to convene with mini-me ASAP. I know I can’t go backwards but if I could, me and that boy would not stop laughing at the things about to happen. And an extra boisterous belly bellow for all the detractors who were adamant that print was dead. Smh. Casey at the cash register asked if I had a Barnes & Noble account. I was like, “Nah, Casey, but I publish this magazine! I’m already doin a lotta business with y’all!” Casey was briefed on Elation Week and gave reciprocal energy. I was swept up in the moment and gave away the magazine I bought for myself from the shelves. I’ve never seen Whetstone with a barcode. Look at us go! We have a campaign at Whetstone to celebrate the occasion. If you take a picture like this at @barnesandnoble you will get Volume 10 on us! Just send your pics to @whetstonemagazine DMs. Floating in an ocean of gratitude. A mood not to lose.
Gonna name this week Elation. Nine volumes out and we just made it in at B N! I need to convene with mini-me ASAP. I know I can’t go backwards but if I could, me and that boy would not stop laughing at the things about to happen. And an extra boisterous belly bellow for all the detractors who were adamant that print was dead. Smh. Casey at the cash register asked if I had a Barnes & Noble account. I was like, “Nah, Casey, but I publish this magazine! I’m already doin a lotta business with y’all!” Casey was briefed on Elation Week and gave reciprocal energy. I was swept up in the moment and gave away the magazine I bought for myself from the shelves. I’ve never seen Whetstone with a barcode. Look at us go! We have a campaign at Whetstone to celebrate the occasion. If you take a picture like this at @barnesandnoble you will get Volume 10 on us! Just send your pics to @whetstonemagazine DMs. Floating in an ocean of gratitude. A mood not to lose.
Black American identity is a spatial conundrum. We are connected by the fact that we are here, but the location is displacement. Start a garden, if you can, and when you do, give away all the food. That right there is a revolution. Connect the dots on the two thoughts and you got the thesis of my first ever NYT piece! You read it (in my link) as part of a package on gardens and Blackness. Thank you to my @justamcravens for your long-standing commitment to the San Francisco youth. You are remarkable. Thank you Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff for commissioning.
Black American identity is a spatial conundrum. We are connected by the fact that we are here, but the location is displacement. Start a garden, if you can, and when you do, give away all the food. That right there is a revolution. Connect the dots on the two thoughts and you got the thesis of my first ever NYT piece! You read it (in my link) as part of a package on gardens and Blackness. Thank you to my @justamcravens for your long-standing commitment to the San Francisco youth. You are remarkable. Thank you Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff for commissioning.
Black American identity is a spatial conundrum. We are connected by the fact that we are here, but the location is displacement. Start a garden, if you can, and when you do, give away all the food. That right there is a revolution. Connect the dots on the two thoughts and you got the thesis of my first ever NYT piece! You read it (in my link) as part of a package on gardens and Blackness. Thank you to my @justamcravens for your long-standing commitment to the San Francisco youth. You are remarkable. Thank you Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff for commissioning.
Thank you @foodandwine and @burkefandb for this acknowledgment! 🙏🏿 This award says I’m changing the game but really it’s @whetstonemagazine. Our team is reason I get to move how I do — running a company while shootin. A hooper. Speaking of Run and Shoot, I’m really from Atlanta like Stewart Avenue. And so is my great great great granny. I’m back in my hometown welcoming all newcomers. So this foto has the wrong city. It’s A-T-L-A-N-T-A all day. On another note I must say wearing your own drip in the foto is an exquisite feeling. @stephaniejronimo @khadioaxaca @gabriella.oviedo @orozco_textil_experimental ftw. You too can shop this look at #OaxacaCollection. This months all monies going towards families piecing their lives together after Hurricane Agatha. If it seems like I’m winning it’s because I am, but I’m hypersensitive to the fact that victory is not a permanent condition. I’m happy to be visiting. Much of my non-Whetstone work has been about accepting that good things could happen to me. The journey from survival to thriving is as wide as your head and a million miles away. Some of us get so good at survival when you breakthrough you don’t know what to do! Or who you are. Or if it’s real. For me to say I’m winning is actually connected to my healing cuz I never knew that feelin. Too scared of losing. Now I know that I am the magic so even if winning is fleeting I’ll be okay. Always gone get to reminisce on this run 🏃🏾♂️ and that has given me strength to keep taking bigger risks. And slowly, slowly, making more major moves. So that’s what I’m doin!! Thank you to everyone helping me along that journey. I hope one day, somehow I can help y’all too! With gratitude.
EatinSzn! DF edition with plenty missing!
EatinSzn! DF edition with plenty missing!
EatinSzn! DF edition with plenty missing!
EatinSzn! DF edition with plenty missing!
EatinSzn! DF edition with plenty missing!
The head of the best words, the director of the most emotive art and a really lucky guy in the middle. Living the dream with this @whetstonemagazine team.
Labor Day could never hold me down. Only cashmere, linen and unbleached cotton could do that. sAs 365 Collection. Uniforms for charm and armor. Pick a path and commit. RS.
Rasa Vol 1 is here. The latest addition to the @whetstonemagazine family is a print magazine dedicated to food stories from South Asia. On the subject of dedication, this one goes out to Rasa EIC @vidya83. Congrats on your beautiful baby, Vidya!!! We are all in love and awe. Love to see the BEST editorial team spread their wings: @alexbowman, @laylaschlack, @lyriclewin Salute to @emlibendixen on the tremendous cover On sale NOW! ✨Link in bio✨
Rasa Vol 1 is here. The latest addition to the @whetstonemagazine family is a print magazine dedicated to food stories from South Asia. On the subject of dedication, this one goes out to Rasa EIC @vidya83. Congrats on your beautiful baby, Vidya!!! We are all in love and awe. Love to see the BEST editorial team spread their wings: @alexbowman, @laylaschlack, @lyriclewin Salute to @emlibendixen on the tremendous cover On sale NOW! ✨Link in bio✨
Rasa Vol 1 is here. The latest addition to the @whetstonemagazine family is a print magazine dedicated to food stories from South Asia. On the subject of dedication, this one goes out to Rasa EIC @vidya83. Congrats on your beautiful baby, Vidya!!! We are all in love and awe. Love to see the BEST editorial team spread their wings: @alexbowman, @laylaschlack, @lyriclewin Salute to @emlibendixen on the tremendous cover On sale NOW! ✨Link in bio✨