26 Jan Story Time: I Had My Second Baby at 17
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26 Jan Monsters Among Us: On R. Kelly, Yasmine James and Unprotected Black Girls
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” ~Audre Lorde After the premiere of Surviving R. Kelly, some folks are asking how R. Kelly has been allowed to terrorize Black girls and women for decades. You only...
17 Oct Him
I suppose I should start from the beginning. Imagine it's a little odd to start at nothing but that's all I got. Mostly what he left me anyway. So here we are, talking about a whole bunch of nothing. Talking about Him. Truth is...
07 Mar Deja Vu: This is Us, Chronic Homelessness and Being a Tired Black Girl
I don’t know how many beds I’ve slept in neither. I do know I attended 13 schools before 8th grade. But I was grown before I realized I spent most of my childhood homeless. Guess it registered a little when we stayed in shelters a...
04 Sep Sins of The Father, Sins of the Son: On Power and the Perpetual Sacrifice of Black Girls and Women
So I started watching the most recent season of MasterChef and got to witness the #BlackGirlMagic of both Yachecia and Eboni (Southside). MasterChef and two Black women to root for? Binging. Anyway, at some point Yachecia was the captain of a team that lost a...