My mother is a compassionate, loving, caring woman who adores her family. She is also a Christian. My father is an atheist who is successful, fun loving and amazingly caring, with very high moral and academic expectations. My parents divorced when I was very young. Despite popular belief, this is not why I am gay. …
Category Archives: love
Angry (Black) Woman
A man I know told me that he saw anger in my writing and ever since then I have been angry. I am in the midst of awakening the woman I have always been. She is angry. She is angry at the society that taught her to reach for anything and achieve everything, but judges …
Top Ten Reasons Why I’m Still Single
Relationship status: single. If I am honest, this is more of a problem for other people than it is for me. I can’t understand why these men don’t see how wonderful my daughter is. I’ve been thinking about that sentence ever since my mother casually dropped it into our conversation a few weeks ago. In …
“I Will Become A Straight Girl”
Originally posted on Is This Africa?, I wrote a discussion about “Corrective Rape”, an act unworthy of the human race: “I Will Become A Straight Girl”
LOVE > Fear
Disclaimer: This will be an incomplete work. I have always been able to start, but never to finish this particular story… But that never stops me from trying again. LOVE > fear “You’re the one I’ll compare all the others to…” – “Be My Only” by FM Radio Any story about love that I tell …