BGS Healing Retreat 2019
I did a thing. I committed to doing many things this year, but one of the most important and scariest of those things was to launch and host my first Black Girl Speaks Healing Retreat. All of us get whispers…
I Ain’t Sorry: How Apathy Rescued Me
Pitcher 4- Apathy *Strong language and content. For big Black Girls only. When the "baddest bitch in the game" calls the baddest of all time on the tennis court to stop, drop, and twerk in a music video about giving…
No Denying You’re In Denial
*Strong language and content Pitcher 2: Denial This bitch just dove off a fuckin’ building and landed in water. And, she still breathing, under water, for like ever. Anybody that’s ever loved any fuckin’ body knows what it’s like to…
Lemon Squeeze: The Beginning of the “Lemonade Series”
In this first edition, "Intuition" is discussed. Stay tuned for the remaining "Pitchers."
Beyond Beyoncé: A Lesson In Colorism
I remember when I first began performing spoken word with the poetry collective Black on Black Rhyme. I was introduced by the stage name "Black Girl." Hisses and heckling greeting me as I graced the stage. "She ain't black," darted…
Beyond Beyoncé: Why When She Slays, We All Slay
Part I: An Ode to Beyoncé's Ode to Blackness A Black Woman. Has the whole world. Watching. Talking. Wondering. Thinking. About her. MJ. Afros. NOLA. Katrina. Blackness. Malcolm. Exposure. Janet. Rhythm. Nation. Building. Cops. Black. Lives. Power. Panthers. Quarterbacks. …
Why BHM Is Still Relevant
My daughter is four. Just yesterday, we were calculating the number of states she’s visited and how it pales in comparison to the number of countries she’s traveled. Being an expat kid afforded her opportunities and exposure most kids her…
2015, The Reflection
So many thoughts as I reflect on 2015. It was a time of heartbreak for me and many very dear to me. This year took a friend’s son, paralyzed another, a friend’s brother, my last two grandparents, and a friend…
Fuck You and Your Simple Ass
Guest Blogger All ya’ll simple, handkerchief head, funky-breath, sell-out, booty clinchin’, holes of ass that think the girl being flung like a dingy wife beater at a pick up game was deserving can suck loose shit from a straw and die!…
The Long Roads, Flights, & Tracks Home
A year ago, my husband and I watched the streets of Ferguson erupt in horror. We watched pictures and videos of the lifeless body of one of our young brothers fester in the street for hours and heard about the…
