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 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 | 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...
by Keiko | Dec 14, 2018 | Black Women, Church, Culture, Ethnicity
Assessing some statements we say without thinking I’ve had many confrontations with brothers and sisters in Christ. If we are “one anothering” well and in fellowship, it is inevitable. A wise pastor who I love dearly once said to me, “Keiko, we won’t all be...
by Keiko | Dec 7, 2018 | Biblical Womanhood, Black Women, Christian Womanhood, Culture, Ethnicity
I told you guys on Facebook, that I have thoughts, many, many, many thoughts. Well, here they are! It all started when a friend of mine showed me this screenshot from Twitter: When we saw this, as Sheneneh the popular character from “In Living Color,” would always...
by Keiko | Sep 19, 2018 | Black Women, Culture, Ethnicity, Poetry
I promise you Sometimes it is truly like living in a cage. Others are free to express freely While I rage on the inside Backed into a corner More like strapped up Vulnerability is feigned Anger is sin Silence is indignant Sound is noise Emotion is victimhood Beauty is...
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