Vanessa
Rochelle
Lewis
Formerly known as Jezebel Delilah X, Vanessa Rochelle Lewis is the founder of PleasureNess Literary Academy and the Head Mistress-in-Charge.
She is a healer with a satchel full of medicine words, a conjuror with desire to nurture other artists as they create magic and save lives,
A faery mermaid gangsta for the revolution,
A lush-bodied, Black femme Goddess motivated by sensuality and freedom,
An educator and performer with a passionate exuberance for silliness, laughter, and the
stage,
A starlet who doesn’t want to be in the spotlight alone,
A lover of all things collective, emergent, and interdependent,
A wild-seed born and blossomed in South Central, Los Angeles,
A fighter with fists born of circumstance and a heart that refused to harden,
A warrior committed to freedom, brow dripping with resilience, wings crusted with
diamonds that grew from trauma healed,
A sunbeam drama kid, always ready to explore the whimsy of imagination with others,
A dreamer who’s hungry for more – more understanding, more expansive enlightenment,
more friendship, more growth, more compassion, more love, more creativity, more access
for her people,
An activist committed to unpacking the seeds, kernels, and fabrics of social justice,
liberation for all, collaborative healing
An alchemist who knows how to turn spirit-wounds into magic, oppression into possibility,
resentment into vulnerability, insecurity into self-expansion, anger into love,
An Ethical Hedonist & Pleasure Activist, committed to the transformative potency of using
joy as a tool for decolonial healing and movement work,
A good witch who highly values compassion, love, forgiveness, and using the forces that be
for generative transformation over revenge,
A Domme Mistress with a love for tender, gentle things; devotion and nurture; power
exchange; role play; deeply consensual Ds & Sm relationships; subs of all genders and
expressions; intimacy; and magic,
A survivor, through and through, and extremely proud of it,
An unapologetically integrated person – intersectional, full, able to be held accountable,
and unwilling to compromise any part of herself,
A Free Black Woman,
A lover of words and expression,
And a goofy, romantic, and rascally flirt.
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social media
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Published work
Ugly: How Beauty Was Built Upon White Supremacy
A Man Called Me An Ugly Black Woman, But The Harm Doesn't Begin Or End With Him
We All F*ck Up: The Importance of Loving Yourself Even When You Disappoint Yourself
4 Reasons Why the US Police Force Is an Extension of Slavery and White Supremacy
QTPOC and Feminist Writers Save Lives, So Treat Them Well
De-Centering Whiteness through Radical Accountability in QTPOC Community
Saying No to Class Privilege (White Privilege’s Deceitful Little Minion)
Why We Must Stop Believing that Our Pain and Grief are Punishment for Our Problems
From One Lesbian of Color to Another: Don't Express Your Transphobia In My Name
5 Ways Black People Experience Non-Physical Violence on College Campuses
Why Keeping to Yourself and Ignoring Strangers is Not the Way to Fight Rape Culture
Three Ways to Lovingly Talk to Your In-Laws about that Hella Oppressive Thing They Just Said
Why Every Femme Needs Another Fierce, Femme Warrior
A Meditation on Romance, Love, and Partnership
InspirHerd By Her: Vanessa Rochelle Lewis
7 Critical Pieces of Info About The Death Penalty That You Need to Know ASAP