Hi Everyone! So with a new year comes new adventure. I am writing to formally announce my podcast: Blackness. Under-Represented. Listen to the trailer here: https://anchor.fm/blacknessunderrep Blackness. Under-Represented will include episodes eight minutes or less that provide insight into happenings relevant to black people and black culture. This announcement is not a farewell to blogging;…
Category: Anecdotes
Life occurrences intertwined with the themes of race, gender and young adulthood. All names and locations have been changed unless noted otherwise.
Why My Husband Must Be a Black Man
I wrote a post a couple of years ago entitled: Why I Won’t Date a White Man. Though I do not regret this post, I do wish I used the space to implement an affirmation for why I, a black man remains not only my sole romantic preference, but my only option for partnership. Why…
Therapy, A Black Female Perspective
After last year, it is without a doubt that there will be a surge in those seeking the insight and guidance of mental health professionals. After being inside for almost a year, it would perhaps be more peculiar if one did not feel a difference in their mental state. Amidst the global crisis, I encountered…
A Black Female Perspective on Kamala Harris’s Candidacy
I did not expect to have such an emotional reaction to Democratic Candidate Joe Biden’s choice for Vice President. To be honest, his choice was not at all a surprise. Harris gained significant traction as a presidential candidate and as a nominee for Vice President. Amidst the protests that resurrected after George Floyd’s murder by…
A Night in the Nation’s Capital: A Reflection
Twas an interesting night at the nation’s capital. The night was hot and humid, a minute improvement from the glaring heat that inundated the earlier hours of the day. I could not help but think about my ancestors who under the same sweltering heat, worked from sun-up to sun-down. Now, another ancestor lay amidst the…
The Black Writer and Overcoming the Demand to “Write White”
A Common “Curse” Toni Morrison is a phenomenal writer. Her writing grabs the reader by the ears and makes them hear the heart beat of the characters she creates in their minds. What she provokes is not reading, but a way to see with. words. All the great writers, from Gertrude Dorsey Brown, to Wallace…
Kindred, A Key to Kinship: Remembering The Late Octavia Butler on Her Birthday
Science fiction was probably the only genre I did not read growing up. I read A Brave New World as a senior in high school, proud of the mastery I demonstrated of my master’s tools. I had a ninety-five grade average, which documented my lauded hypnosis delineated in my memory of the white Man’s text,…
A Fly on the Wall isn’t a Fly at All: Re-evaluating Success in Silence
They laugh and smile with one another as the melanated faces mistake anti-black attitudes as kindness. I can’t laugh though, my face frozen in seeing what others do not, or simply will not acknowledge. They are telling me the benefits of teaching my narrative. They teach me the socially acceptable way to intertwine blackness in…
Remembering Malcolm X
I have spent the bulk of today, reading Malcolm X quotes, and listening to his speeches. His smooth, precise, passionate speech personifies the poetic prose of black power personified. He is “our shining prince” as they say, in both life and death. He shines because his internal freedom bleeds outward. Yet, this year, perhaps more…
Decoding The Intent to Institutionalize
A slightly cohesive rant that delineates my “come to Africa” moment as a black female thinker.
Whispers of a Womanist 