by Keiko | Feb 26, 2021 | Biblical Womanhood, Black Women, Blackness, Church, Culture, Ethnicity, Trauma
Life is all about relationships. All different kinds of relationships and connections. Sometimes they succeed to different degrees and with much consternation and elbow grease…or not. Other times they fail to varying degrees, with ease and with no fight to make...
by Keiko | Feb 17, 2021 | Blackness, Culture, Ethnicity
So Y’ALL? Y’all… l forgot to tell y’all in my intro blog that I am from the Midwest…and grew up in a Jamaican household but I can place a “y’all” in just about any conversation LOL. ON this particular blog, you know the one you’re currently reading, I will use...
by Keiko | Feb 9, 2021 | Black Women, Culture, Ethnicity, Hair, Uncategorized
“It’s just hair! What is the big deal?!” Seems like a fairly harmless statement, but it is ignorant. I feel comfortable speaking for the majority of black women on this…it is never JUST hair. Hair is never a simple topic for Black women. Even the people who...
by Keiko | Feb 19, 2019 | Church, Culture, Ethnicity, Trauma
The “Black Cage Stage” is the cycle that Black folks go through when they discover White Eurocentric reformed theology. This other side to so-called orthodox Christianity hits us Black people smack in the face and we immediately act in illogical ways as a result of...
by Keiko | Jan 24, 2019 | Biblical Womanhood, Black Women, Christian Womanhood, Culture, Online Dating, Shame, Singleness
A “Pick Me” Defined So I stumbled across this fairly new cultural term (well new to me?) “pick me culture.” Pick Me Culture: “Women whose motivation for shaming other women is, men. Everything they do is centered around catching a man.” Sonya Eskridge “Women who are...
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