Category: Weekly Newsletter

We can’t plan for others and create their boundaries if we aren’t in tune with our own boundaries and our limitations and safety nets. 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… Continue reading Dear Graduates: Black Queer Feminist Urbanism Starts With Clear Personal Boundaries — The Black Urbanist Weekly for May 23-29, 2022

— 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 I’m going to begin what will be a summer series of highlighting why I’ve chosen certain books… Continue reading The Fibers of My Black Queer Feminist Urbanism — The Black Urbanist Weekly for May 16-May 22, 2022

The Black Urbanist Weekly for May 9-May 15, 2022 My personal parable from the Parable of the Sower Opera is faced with tough circumstances, our dreams and our songs will carry us through life and then will become a life force. This is an urbanist parable because I’m not the only one going forward in… Continue reading A Black Queer Feminist Urbanist Opera of Parables

It’s ok to be selfish and affirm yourself when it comes to urban planning, especially if “Urban Planning” never had you in mind. However, as you feel more steady and yes, amass power and privilege in your own right, it’s time to be in solidarity and facilitate justice and belonging. — This is The Black… Continue reading It’s Ok to Plan, When It Centers the Most Marginalized — The Black Urbanist Weekly for May 2-May 8, 2022

Urbanism doesn’t always want to hang out with Black queer feminism, especially at times in my embodied & socially distant Black queer feminism, but there’s always an internal map and compass that leads me back to it, my inner child specifically. — This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights the Black… Continue reading For My Inner Black Queer Feminist Urbanist Child — The Black Urbanist Weekly for April 26-May 1, 2022

Sometimes, we need someone to affirm us. To be in solidarity with us. To get us through the final details and steps to heal injustice and to provide that sense of belonging above and beyond that affirmation and solidarity. This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that highlights the Black Queer Feminist Urbanist… Continue reading Introducing the Black Queer Feminist Urbanist May Intensive — The Black Urbanist Weekly for April 11-17 2022

The solidarity we seek the most in land stewardship is acknowledging head-on when we have been violent in its practice and steering, rather than shaming those who exhibit momentary violence in trying to survive it. Oh, and COVID denial/acceptance is also a form of violence. This is The Black Urbanist Weekly, an email newsletter that… Continue reading Solidarity Comes With Looking at Root Causes and Continuing to Reduce Global Harm — The Black Urbanist Weekly for April 4-10 2022

Black queer feminist urbanist siblings — I see you. Go forth in peace, love, and urbanity. 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 I… Continue reading Affirming Your Black Queer Feminist Urbanism — The Black Urbanist Weekly for March 28-April 3, 2022

How to Start Being More Than a Performative Ally for Black Queer Feminist Urbanists:

Being an ally of Black Queer Femnist Urbanism is not passive or automatic. It requires standing in the gap between the inequity and filling in the gap towards true liberation and justice.