Red Overtone Serpent/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 13

5 Chicchan

Red Overtone Serpent

Once accomplished –

Life Force

Seeks Survival

Above All

Once empowered –

Instinct

Transforms Form

Into Radiance

Overtones echo in

Primal Night –

Building a Cosmos

Of Sound and Light.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Brittney Cooper (born December 2, 1980) is a black feminist scholar, author, and professor. Her areas of research and work include black women organizations, black women intellectuals, and hip-hop feminism. In 2013 and 2014, she was named to the Root.com's Root 100, an annual list of Top Black Influencers.

Personal life and education

Cooper is from Ruston, Louisiana.

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Political Science from Howard University in May 2002. She graduated summa cum laude, was involved in Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated from Howard's honors program with her senior thesis in English.

After graduating from Howard University, Cooper attended Emory University. She received her Master of Arts from the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts in December 2007. She received her PhD in American Studies, in addition to a Women's Studies Certificate, from the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts in May of 2009. 

Career

Cooper currently works as an associate professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.

She has also served as an assistant professor at the University of Alabama in the Department of Gender and Race Studies from 2009-2012, and she was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University's Center for Race and Ethnicity from 2011 to 2012.

In 2016, Cooper gave a TED talk called "The Racial Politics of Time."

Publications

Cooper has written several books.

Her first book was Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women, published in 2017 by University of Illinois Press. A book review from National Public Radio (NPR) called Beyond Respectability "a work of crucial cultural study." In 2018, her book Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower was published in 2018 by St. Martin's Press.

Cooper also co-authored and edited The Crunk Feminist Collection (published in 2017 by The Feminist Press at City University of New York) along with Susana M. Morris and Robin M. Boylorn. The book collection received positive acclaim from Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews,Literary Hub, and Ebony. The collection is a series of essays that originated on the blog The Crunk Feminist Collective, of which Cooper was the co-founder.

Cooper also writes articles for Cosmopolitan and The Salon.*

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittney_C._Cooper

CHICCHAN

Kin 5: Red Overtone Serpent

I empower in order to survive

Commanding instinct

I seal the store of life force

With the overtone tone of radiance

I am guided by the power of space,

Remain focused on the indestructible, identity-less union of self-existing mind awareness.*

*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2018-2019.

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