Ten Years In

I’ve had a harrowing week and I almost forgot that TODAY (or someday very soon!) is my 10 year blogging anniversary! Wooo hoooooooo!!! So much has changed since I started in 2012 as a fashion blogger. Now that I write from the heart and engagement has increased, I’ve gained some amazing readers and subscribers! I […]

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not bitter, just black

for the black men who don’t love black women because she’s angry maybe because her footsteps are a sin and her breath is a crime. she can’t express without a dagger thrown her direction and here you come telling her to smile and she has to decide if she wants to be brazen or be […]

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week 3

Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away. – John Lennon ❤

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week 1: a note on self-care

Black women’s self-care is also subversive because to take care of ourselves means that we disrupt societal and political paradigms that say that Black women are disposable, unvalued. Indeed, people and things that aren’t cared for are considered expendable. So when we don’t take care of ourselves, we are affirming the social order that says […]

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