Believe Black Women The First Time
There is no “protect Black women” whilst victim blaming survivors, especially when the perpetrators of crimes against them are Black as well. There is no “protect Black women” while continuing to support people that harm Black women, in any capacity. The message it sends about how much we are valued seems evident, painfully clear…
Cocoon Prose
This mourning, I do not pretend. It is familiar; devastation runs from the top of your head down to the soles of your feet, pooling around you as you walk. I won’t lie, I feel stepped in…
On Replay: Tank and the Bangas’ Green Balloon
This album makes you feel like you’re floating, and your feet don’t even leave the ground. It reminds you that it’s okay to daydream; to treat yourself like a human being (instead of something that just produces).
#NotYourMeme: How the Memeification of Black Women’s Plight Does More Harm Than Good
I’m tired of the masses turning a blind eye to the correlation between the viral, internet abuses of Breonna Taylor and Megan Thee Stallion…
New to This vs. True to This
Living through gentrification feels like being routinely colonized. I haven’t figured out any other way to describe the term, or a lighter intro for that matter…
“We Do Language”
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” — Toni Morrison, in her acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature; the first African American woman to receive the award.
Revisiting Mereba’s The Jungle Is The Only Way Out
This album is powerful. Mereba understands heaviness, unpacking, and working hard to make your dreams come true. There are so many stages of reflection on your way to the top, especially with all of the adversity and obstacles that threaten intersectionality every single day…
Which Tone Gets Me Heard?
The term tone policing has been circulating for quite a few years now. Multiple events in Black culture have recently occurred though, that have now had the term both in our ears and all over our screens. Tone policing is…
Colorism: Prejudice Disguised As “Preference”
One of the ways the form of prejudice that is colorism has been perpetuated for ages, is simply calling it by another name, (i.e. preference) to conceal its disgustingly rooted bias. Colorism comes with history that explains why it has been a detriment throughout generations, and this criticism goes far beyond what you’re “just attracted to.”