The CTCA Framework, in Plain Language
CTCA is not a program. It is a lens. It is how we decide what is worth doing, and in what order.
Culture first, because you cannot heal what you cannot name in your own tongue. Trauma second, because the naming makes the wound visible. Community third, because the wound cannot close in isolation. Advocacy fourth, because the conditions that made the wound must be changed, or the wound will return.
Every gathering we hold — every brunch, every open mic, every Dialogue Room — moves through those four beats. When a program stops working, it is almost always because one of the four has gone missing.
More from the journal.
Putting Black Love Into Practice
Love, in our tradition, is not a feeling. It is a discipline of showing up — for ourselves, for each other, for the long work of freedom.
Why the Dialogue Room Works
A room, a circle, a rule: what happens here stays here, and what happens here changes us. Notes from a decade of Tuesday nights.
Dispatch: Kings on Retreat, 2024
Three days off-grid with forty Black men, two elders, a fire, and the quiet work of becoming.