Sidney is one of my best friends. I’ve known him since about 2010 or 2011 and we regularly talk about the big subjects along with the small. He knows me bett...

I first became politically aware around 10 or 11 years old. I mean, actually understanding politics at a level slightly above what was taught to us in school...

Wine tasting has always fascinated me. A team of experts shows up to sniff, spin, sip a bunch of wine in order to judge it’s quality. Red, white, dry, aroma,...

Recently a friend of mine brought up an unfortunate recurring event in her personal life. She noticed that a certain subset of her friends don’t invite her o...

Last year I wrote a piece called, “Y’all Really Hate Black Women, Don’t You?” At the time it related to Chloe Bailey being cast in the live-action Little Mer...

The week starting February 5th, 2006 was as normal as any other week for me. I was looking forward to my birthday on the 14th and my tax refund that usually w...

Close to a year ago I saw an announcement that The L Word would be returning as The L Word: Generation Q. One of my favorite shows was coming back and not as...

(The Oppression Olympics is my look into people wanting to compete over who has it worse in a zero-sum game.) I’m making this one really general because I fe...

I had been planning to write about my experiences with ulcerative colitis for about a year. Last year was the 5th anniversary of my surgery and I thought of ...

The last week of 2013 was the worst time leading up to the best. I just had to get there first. By this time, I had worked a little over 6 months at my job m...

If you’ve been keeping up this far, you can tell that this was a big deal for me being diagnosed with this disease and obviously it was an issue but what is ...

For transparency's sake, there was a long blog I wrote to go along with this but while stumbling over files on my computer, I came across something you might...

January 13, 2014: Post-surgery, I woke up in my hospital room not feeling too different but knowing something was different. I was tired but excited. I knew ...

Okay, that may or may not have been a sensational headline but there’s a reason for it. I feel like suicide prevention is something extremely serious and we’...

I’ve meant to do this in the past but never felt I had the right outlet or platform for it. Now that I’ve finally got my own site it’s definitely the right t...

Kuumba: Creativity - To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. A...

I’ve meant to do this in the past but never felt I had the right outlet or platform for it. Now that I’ve finally got my own site it’s definitely the right t...

I’ve meant to do this in the past but never felt I had the right outlet or platform for it. Now that I’ve finally got my own site it’s definitely the right t...

I’ve meant to do this in the past but never felt I had the right outlet or platform for it. Now that I’ve finally got my own site it’s definitely the right t...

I’ve meant to do this in the past but never felt I had the right outlet or platform for it. Now that I’ve finally got my own site it’s definitely the right t...