It’s me. I’m a Black girl who done searched for love and detoured at self-destruction. A few times. I didn’t expect to reflect on that this holiday season but the universe has a way of doing what it wants to do. Because the universe ain’t shit. So Christmas rolled around and I got a gift from a friend. Ok. Situationship buddy I got comfortable with for a year and some change. Then he decided new year, new him. We’ll come back to why that’s important. Anyway, the gift I got was th[...]
The topic of hair is such a potent one. It’s political, social, cultural, sexual, and, above all, very personal and emotional.”Kim Wayans In the preceding quote, Kim Wayans succinctly captures why curlies all over the world have been waiting for Better Than Good Hair by Nikki Walton of curlynikki.com. If you can’t tell we’ve been waiting, check out how fast it’s selling out! Walton’s book provides information on every stage of natural hair from the big chop, to achieving “h[...]
The City Never Sleeps and apparently neither does A.D. Carson. With his second book in as many years, Carson delivers a text even more inclusive, transparent and raw than his first book, COLD, A Novel by A.D. Carson. If COLD was illustrative of Carson’s attempt to bridge the gap between his academic and artistic worlds, The City: [un] poems, thoughts, rhymes & miscellany is a declaration that in bridging the gap, he has no desire to merge these worlds. Carson makes clear that poetry, rap,[...]