Hair Tings

Hair Tings

Hair Beginnings I’m really not my hair. Yet, it is very important to me. Hair is positioned as such a foundational thing to a black woman. Some of my earliest memories are of me getting my hair combed. My sisters marveling at my “grade” of hair and saying it was...
We Are Still Here

We Are Still Here

Have you ever posted something on social media with specific and honorable intentions, only to see it be twisted into something totally unrecognizable? Verbal sparring matches, hurt feelings, and deleted comments follow in short order? That is what happened to a...
Coats

Coats

Panelist 1: “But that’s the issue right? I shouldn’t be spending an infinite amount of time being less of myself because you’re not going to get the best of me the most efficient me. In theory, like don’t go crazy, but be yourself.” Panelist 2:...