Souljourning for Truth Project 2022-25

In 2021 "Wombfulness Gatherings" was born. We discussed the power of the Black womb: her resistance and resilience, sanctity and sacredness, her stories, her recovery: womb as safety. Sojourner Truth's story resonated with me. She took her freedom. Walked away from the plantation. She is a mother who left. Black women often stay when it's time to leave. Truth packed her bag and walked away. Heart breaking, she walked away from bondage carrying one child, leaving the rest.

Souljourning for Truth Ministry, Inc. (2025) continues to honor Black wom(b)an agency, self-determination and liberation for women 60+. In intentional community, we support one another through project-based activities like Souljourning for Truth Rites of Passage.

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This year with your help I will be able to afford travel and lodging costs. I retired from a 25 year academic career in 2023. My funds are now limited, but the work continues. Ase.

I am traveling from Alameda County to Ulster County again. It's my third journey. This trek will start in Black Boston with Phillis Wheatley, then on to Ms. Harriet E. Wilson in Milford, Connecticut to Kingston, New York.

This time the plan is to introduce the ancestors: Iya Truth to Ms. Harriet "Hattie" E. Wilson, in Milford. Both women were spiritualists, single Black mothers who grieved the loss of sons, yet knew how to speak things into being.

There are monuments to Truth in Akron, Ohio and Angola, Indiana too I have not seen. If I raise enough money, I will be able to stop there on my return trip. This fall, I will return to San Diego to see the life-size Truth statue at UCSD.

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