Dr Crystallee Crain - Founder - Prevention at the Intersections
Crystallee is a social and political critic with academic roots in sociology, political science, and psychology and has developed curriculum and taught courses at universities for over 14 years. Crystallee specializes in uncovering the layers of institutional inequity while supporting communities to shift ways of being and practice to improve life chances. She has written two books, A People's Primer: Dispatches on Politics & Social Change and she is also writing another book which will be coming out later this year. And she is also the Founder and Director of Prevention at the Intersections.
Crystallee earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. She holds a Master of Arts in Social Sciences and a Bachelors in Political Science from Northern Michigan University.
Here is the link to the Danish commercial, ‘All that we share’ that I mentioned in our interview and below please find Crystallee’s beautiful poem that she read during our podcast.
The Sunrise
This sunrise on my soul makes yesterday seem like a moment in time,
Wrenched from me before and brought back to me wrapped in flowered paper,
Adorned in laces and glitter that sticks to each leaf of the flowers, I can see.
An assortment that mirrors my past, present,
And the unforeseen future.
Mine it is, that time that is coming,
The moments that once told me I was fodder for a moment of ill placed rage,
The lengthy battles to fight back tears and shakes.
In time, the heart beats again.
Remind me o’ good night that choices made,
Lost time and space was not worth the bruises.
With persistence, I learned not to cower to the coward.
My life will not be borrowed by boys in men’s clothing.
With isolation comes doomed thinking, some of which
were former truths denied to be fact for fear of discomfort.
What is it that we know about what’s coming?
What is it, the we - we aim to feel, when your humanity is relegated to categorical definitions of them, us,
and or that,
but never, never this.
Now, I see the sunsets, I feel them on my grateful round cheeks,
For I have found the night's warmth again.
Wrapping myself in the bosom of a pillow that holds me a willing hostage,
Away from the fate of what is not my truth, but that of the losing, wailing heart of hate.
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