Kina’s Substack

Black People Fought for the 14th Amendment… Everybody Else Has Been Using It

Joquina Reed | Writer, educator, reparations advocate and the author of Loving Black People: A Discipline and Practice

Apr 20 • Kreed

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I Wasn’t Worried About Birthright Citizenship—Until I Was

How a Supreme Court case made me realize the 14th Amendment is part of my legal survival

Apr 8 • Kreed

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February 2026

America Is a Dysfunctional Family System and Black People Are the Enablers

Joquina Reed | Writer, educator, and author of Loving Black People: A Discipline and Practice

Feb 8 • Kreed

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Why 1526 Has Been Sitting With Me

Joquina Reed | I create tools like the Anti-Blackness Reader Project and Divesting from Whiteness to help create shared humanity by teaching others to…

Feb 2 • Kreed

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January 2026

Fentanyl Is Not a Weapon of Mass Destruction. But the Language Is

Joquina Reed | I create tools like the Anti-Blackness Reader Project and Divesting from Whiteness to help create shared humanity by teaching others to…

Jan 4 • Kreed

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What We’re Being Asked to Let Go Of... This New Year

Joquina M. Reed is the creator behind Divesting from Whiteness and The Anti-Blackness Reader

Jan 1 • Kreed

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December 2025

45 Lessons I’ve Learned From Black Women

We weren’t supposed to make it past 25. Jokes aside—here I am at 45.

Dec 5, 2025 • Kreed

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Dec 1, 2025 • Kreed

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November 2025

When the Land Remembers, the Holiday Requires More: Black, Native, and the Work of Shared Grief

A Black Southern woman reflecting from Baton Rouge, on the homelands of the Chitimacha, Atakapa-Ishak, Choctaw, and Tunica-Biloxi peoples.

Nov 24, 2025 • Kreed

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Field Notes: Why I Started a Black Speech & Debate Club Anyway...

Joquina Reed is a scholar, facilitator, and author of Loving Black People: A Discipline and Practice. She is also the creator of The Anti-Blackness…

Nov 2, 2025 • Kreed

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October 2025

From Bounce to Ballots: Why Louisiana Is Still the Pulse of America

Scholar, facilitator, and author of Loving Black People: A Discipline and Practice, Joquina examines how anti-Blackness, whiteness, and justice…

Oct 28, 2025 • Kreed

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September 2025

Black Women and Nuance

As fascism continues to rage upon us its important that we continue to make space for understanding history and nuance even in the most complicated of…

Sep 23, 2025 • Kreed

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