Every week the amazing Sharmane “Mixed Girl Mane” hosts a Sunday morning get together for some of her listeners and friends. Each week we talk a variety of topics, and this week, although Sharmane wasn’t there, we were talking about empowerment. This week Sharmane wasn’t able to join […]
********** TRIGGER WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS A CONVERSATION ABOUT RAPE, MOLESTATION, ABUSE, TRAUMA, AND MURDER ********* Because she wore a skirt on a train, a man decided to take photos of her up her skirt, without her permission. She asked me personally, if she had done something wrong […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about this, and it’s actually the reason that’s pulled me away from a very well known, predominantly Black women writing group. There are an abnormal number of books written about women falling in love with gangsters – with the story usually revolving around […]
*********** PLEASE BE WARNED THIS POST TALKS ABOUT SELF HARM. IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW MAY BE TRIGGERED BY THIS POST PLEASE DO NOT READ. ********* Self harm is so difficult to talk about. It’s one of those harmful shameful things that we don’t discuss, because we’re […]
So sometime in the middle of 2020, I decided to cut off all my hair. I wanted to shave my head, but the hair stylist that I went to was genuinely confused when I asked her to shave my head, and couldn’t quite bring herself to do as […]
