We all have an HIV story. This could have been mine. “Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of …
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KING
I am homesick for the man that I call home. I am lovesick for a King that the Queen in me knows. I have loved the man you are meant to be, the man that I have known since they pillaged our land and abducted our children. Do you remember our people, even though they separated …
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 …
FEMALE + BLACK: A Developing Story
I have been going through a fascinating internal journey of self exploration; who knew that it would take the death of an American 17 year old to expose my own ignorance about the way my skin has coloured how the world views me? Who could have foretold that an inexplicably brutal attack on an Indian bus could awaken my …
There. i said it. 