Philly Tours shop

"Loud Mouth" Never Lose Your Voice | Glass Mug

$19.99

My grandmother told me that after the Bush/Gore election, when I was a teenager voting for the first time. She was Gullah Geechee — only one generation removed from American chattel enslavement. She understood what it meant for Black people to be silenced, counted out, intimidated, ignored, and still show up. So when she told me, “Never lose your voice,” she was not just talking about voting. She was talking about survival. She was talking about memory. She was talking about the responsibility t