When the Oklahoma City Thunder won the 2025 NBA Championship, I did not watch only as a fan. I watched as a Black American and Antiguan daughter of the diaspora. I watched as someone born from island memory and raised in North Tulsa, where Greenwood is not a distant history lesson but an inheritance. I […]
Author Archives: Gay Pasley
Gay Pasley is a multi-hyphenate, award-winning Black American and Antiguian writer, actor, nurse, and photographer — a daughter of the diaspora raised in North Tulsa in the aftermath of the Greenwood Massacre. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is the winner of the Southwest Everett Literary Award. Her work explores Black maternal legacy, migration, estrangement, embodiment, cultural memory, and survival. She can be found at www.thegaypasley.com.