Tanya Cromartie-Twaddle

ME?
Tanya Cromartie-Twaddle aka Black Sky?
I was born under a Floridian Sun 33 years ago.
I love community. I need community. I am lost child trying to find a warm home under this beautiful quilt of people here in the Midwest. Since 1994 I have been building community and creating a new family. I’ve wrapped myself in this blanket so tight…I won’t let it go.
The quilt?
Soul patches.
Some worn from the unapologetic friction of real life. Some are new paisely scraps waiting to be touched. Others are fierce black squares demanding inclusion…recognition. Many white squares worn with guilt and sincerity towards change. I love them all the same.
I have carried two daughters from my womb into the world…I am a mother to thousands of children in Milwaukee. Naturally.

Raw…
Milwaukee needs more hoodmommas taking their struggle to the streets, into the board rooms and straight in the face of the policymakers. I’m committed to creating brighter futures for Milwaukee’s children of all persuasions…but especially of the darker persuasion. They fall through the cracks the fastest and end up behind bars so automatic.

My motherhood mission includes spreading the message of non-violence and giving youth skills to live this way.

Most of all…I am a student of life and these streets…learning from the people in the thick of the struggle what we need to get up and out. I support Inclusion. Not Diversity….diversity is about counting people, inclusion is about making people count…a great man said.

I’m not down with poverty pimps and expect much more from Milwaukees Youth & Community Serving agencies.I write, dance, sing, paint, draw, sew, love, bleed, and give.

I speak too colorfully sometimes. Most times. Don’t listen. Just feel me.
Google me to find out more. Look up the milwaukee Annual Summer of Peace Youth Rally.

Black Sky Shines Most High