When My Daughter Cut Her Locs, I Cried I was afraid that her releasing her locs was also a way for her to release me. *** We Are Not Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams. We are our Ancestors. What we remember as the past cannot actually be “past” because we are continuously making and remaking that […]
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I’ve been doing a bunch of writing on Medium, and have completely abandoned this space! Here is a round up of everything I’ve written so far. Fences is not the Problem. Black Elitism Is A response to a NYT article about a Black mother angry that her son might have to read August Wilson’s play […]
Read MoreThe first time I thought about killing myself, I was eleven. I’d had some trauma in my life, unspeakable things that my tween self could not articulate. Pain that ran deep, seated into my soul. I could not get away from it. Image Credit: Sam D via Flickr At eleven, I didn’t make a plan; […]
Read MoreI used to think that defriending folks on FB was a little wack. I thought that just because someone disagrees with me doesn’t mean that we can’t be “friends.” And anyway — I love a healthy debate. But now, I see that getting rid of folks who are consistently spraying toxic rhetoric in your news feed […]
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