• I’m Starting To Notice A Pattern…Devon J Hall Doesn’t Put Up With Bullshit

    I am really fucking tired of people thinking that just because I support their work, it means that I will support shitty shit. Do you know those people who expect you to protect their image at any cost? The ones who think they can get away with murder, while hiding the murder tools in your…

  • Reckless Behavior Has Reinvigorated My Creative Spirit Thank You So much @QueenMediaC/

    I remember at twenty-six, freaking out about turning thirty because although I had a good job, I was utterly miserable, and I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. I certainly “wanted” to get married and have kids, but not really. In reality I knew that I was supposed to want to…

  • Things That I’ve Been Up To

    So I’ve been up to a lot lately. I’ve been working hard on lining people up for the Podcast, Comfortably Uncomfortable Conversations. I’ve been designing shirts like crazy and now I have more than twenty different designs, and I’ve been working on my fictional blog La Lumiere Magazine. Oh yeah and my Newsletter. That’s a…

  • If You Don’t See My Color, Culture or Race, You Don’t Understand My Artwork, Yes This Is Another #WAP Post

    This post was originally going to be about colorism, until I remembered a conversation I had recently about art and culture. This was how it started: I know how it sounds. It sounds like I am being selfish and elitist, and eventually there is going to come a time when white girls everywhere are doing…

  • Soulful Sundays

    I don’t usually write posts on Sundays, as y’all know by now, but this week has been particularly rough. I am not sure where I am going with this post, but I got the bug to write on this cold, wet, Friday night, so I thought I would start writing and see where it ends…

  • I Am Afraid To Quit Smoking and Fear Is A Bitch

    Yup. I said it. I am a big old baby. I know what’s coming. Anxiety and Depression, as if I don’t already face that enough. Stress and a wave of emotions that have me up and down like someone who is genuinely Manic Depressive, which I am not typically. In short, a fucking roller coaster.…

  • It Was Written…That Some People Are Fucking Assholes. But The Good News Is You Don’t Have To Be One Of Them.

    Somewhere, in a library, or a museum, or perhaps some dusty cavern in the middle of a desert that has yet to be named, there is a book. Or a scroll, or a carving in the wall that states that Black people were destined to rule. Only to repeat the mistakes of their past so…

  • It’s Been A Dream In The Making for 32 Years…Stop Being So Hard On Yourself

    I wrote a fucking book. I wrote a book AND I published a book, on my own without anyone’s help, and while it might have been a “better” book if I’d had it edited, it was important to me to release it the way I wanted to, without anyone else chiming in about it. God…

  • Can Men Just Fucking Not?!

    Trigger Warning: This post contains graphic details of sexual abuse and rape. Please consider this your trigger warning. This same man was caught, ON VIDEO, viciously beating the shit out of a Black woman. Today I read a story about a fifteen year old Indigenous girl who was murdered by a forty-seven year old men,…

  • Stop Writing Books About Love And Gangsters, God Damnit. It’s Not Sexy or Cute Anymore

    This Post contains conversations about sexual abuse, gang life and trauma. Please consider this your trigger warning. Okay we get it, you think that loving gangsters is sexy and cute. Raise your hand if you’ve seen “Legend” which is to my mind, the most accurate gang life film ever written. Legend is about Identical twins…

  • Defining Success On Your Terms Will Set You On A Healthier Path To Happiness

    I think we need to sit down and have a conversation about success. How do you define success? Is it millions of views that translate into thousands of dollars? Is it your name on the Canadian Walk of Fame? (I totally want that one day!) Is it knowing that you’ve helped other people along their…