This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights the Black Queer Feminist Urbanist thoughts and commentary of me, Kristen Jeffers, internationally known urban planner, designer, analyst, keynote speaker, media maven, and fiber artist. This week is a sample of when I turn my Black Queer Feminist Urbanst lens on a few current […]
Solving the joy equation is worth it. It kills the civic inferiority complex and creates lasting sustainability and equity in our practice and in our being. How’s that joy equation going from last week? Solving for our joy X is not easy, but worth it. I said I’d share my lessons from this year this […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights the Black Queer Feminist Urbanist thoughts and commentary of me, Kristen Jeffers, internationally known urban planner, designer, analyst, keynote speaker, media maven, and fiber artist on one key issue every week. This week I’m going to share why a Black Queer Feminist Urbanism is […]
The Black Urbanist Weekly for February 28 — March 6, 2022 This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights I, Kristen Jeffers’s, Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week I’m ending Black History Month by centering my Black Queer Feminist Urbanist Future as I continue to […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights I, Kristen Jeffers’s, Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week I’m dipping into my vault of prior posts and newsletters to celebrate Black History Month. This week and next, I’m revisiting the Civic Inferiority Complex. I’m also thankful for […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights I, Kristen Jeffers’s, Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week I’m dipping into my vault of prior posts and newsletters to celebrate Black History Month. This week, I’m revisiting my May 26, 2014 post on why I love […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights Kristen Jeffers’s(that’s me’s) Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week I’m dipping into my vault of prior posts and newsletters to celebrate Black History Month. Below, you’ll find my post from June 23, 2013 — The Common Man’s […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights Kristen Jeffers’s Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week, I’m going to tell you the story of how I came to accept that I am a Black queer press and embrace my storytelling gifts and ability to own […]
Welcome to The Black Urbanist Weekly. I’m Kristen Jeffers and I’m currently producing this weekly digital newsletter on my site and via email to share my thoughts, my Black, Spiritual, Southern, Working-Class, Educated, Queer, Femme thoughts on how places and communities work. Think of this as my weekly column, sitting on your proverbial print paper’s […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights Kristen Jeffers’s Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week Kristen is taking us back to her very first neighborhood and the first time she met the concept of a community center. Community centers do exist, do provide lots […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights Kristen Jeffers’s Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week Kristen is admitting that she needs to take a breather on the journey because collective healing must happen, but she has to heal within first. I will heal from […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights Kristen Jeffers’s Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week we taking a breath on our first leg of what Kristen is calling the Wish Journey of 2022 and she really appreciates you supporting this one, because the year is […]
This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights Kristen Jeffers’s Black Queer Feminist Urbanist commentary on one key issue every week. This week we are starting what Kristen is calling the Wish Journey of 2022 and she really appreciates you supporting this one, for her to start the year with annual funding for […]
There are tons of Jills-of-all trades out here. Moms, daughters, sisters, cousins, people juggling a lot of hats and doing it well. You really see that when it comes to blogging. And my first pick for my new Inspiring People Series is just one of many who makes the juggling act look easy and fabulous. […]
