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JARDANA’S

WRITING

JARDANA’S WRITING

Essays

Mountain Removed: On Queer Grief. The Queer Love Project. Fall, 2024.

Separation Rituals. Swamp Pink. Winter 2023.

Dear Life. Stoneboat Literary. Fall, 2022.

Swell: The Story of the Mermaid and the Sailor. Nashville Review. June, 2022. Winner of The Porch Creative - Nonfiction essay contest, judged by Natalie Lima.

Underwater. Isotrope. Spring, 2022.

In The Hold. Pigeon Pages. March 2022.

Antiracist Parenting During COVID-19 and Beyond. Co-written with Rachel Parsons. YES! Magazine, March, 2020. 

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Activist Writing

Practice Showing Up: A Guidebook for White People Working for Racial Justice

How to Mother. Avatar Review. Summer, 2019 

The Connective Tissue of Our Movements for Change. Rockwood Leadership Institute, June, 2017.

A Journey of Belonging: Embodying White Anti-racism as an Ancestral Practice. February, 2018.

Lessons on Social Justice Parenting and Protest from my Kindergartner. Raising Race Conscious Children. February, 2017. 

Ghosts We Carry, Healing We Practice: Medicine for Liberation. SouthWrit, Fall, 2017.

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Redefining Balance in Parenting and Activism: A Guide for Social Justice Families. Showing Up for Racial Justice toolkit, November, 2016.  

How White Folks Can Show up for Racial Justice.  Elephant Journal, July 2016.  

Winning Our Movements Inside and Out: Shifting Social Justice back into our Work. Feminist Wire, August, 2016.  

​A White Yogis 9-Step Guide Towards Action for Racial Justice in Ferguson and Beyond.  Decolonizing Yoga, August, 2014.  

For Trayvon Martin I Grieve Because Black Lives Matter. Elephant Journal, July, 2013.  

Anthologies

Toward A White Spiritual Antiracism. In Practicing Yoga as Resistance: Voices of Color in Search of Freedom, edited by Cara Hagan. Routledge, 2021.

How to Mother. Sarabande Books Anthology, Sometimes Good Things Happen, September, 2018. 

Radical Wellness in Birthing. In The Ultimate Guide to Sex Through Pregnancy and Motherhood: Passionate Practical Advice for Moms, edited by Madison Young. Cleis Press, 2016.