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I write about what I see, feel, live and you are welcome to share the experience as I share them.
They are racist landmines just waiting for Black people to "fuck up" so they can feel justified about dehumanizing us. It happens all the time.
I watched Get Out and had an unexpectedly strong response to it, mainly because I didn't get out. Instead, I got married.
I compiled my essays into a book for easy of finding. It's not everything from 2016, but it is the more significant essays. Available in print on CreateSpace and in eBook format on Amazon.
February was a busy month for social media. I spent most of it posting and preparing posts celebrating the Black cosplay hashtag.
Celebrating #28DaysOfBlackCosplay with cosplayer Jade Aurora.
We all have a choice to make, but white people especially. Especially if you trying to break this shitty ass system that's hurting everyone, even those who don't realize it.
The illusion of power is a hell of a drug.
Celebrating #28DaysOfBlackCosplay with cosplayer Megumi Chan.
When you live in a white supremacist society, the poison of whiteness is sometimes necessary for survival. But it's a survival fraught with danger and punishment.
We lie about every fucking thing in America. It's almost unsurprising that people can't discern what's real. Y'all gonna learn...
Just watched some of Jillisblack videos and heard my truth from another person. She is a powerful speaker who made me kinda think about some things that I'm going to have to revisit in the near future...
Navigating those hetero-normative relationships can be tricky and in some cases, destructive. This isn't a primer. It's a short evolution of self.
Image Source: http://www.dulcineapitagora.com/all-oppression-is-connected/ by Jim Chuchu
Oppression is a compilation of moments that create a pattern. It’s the matching your pattern to others and seeing the overlap. It’s expanding your view to include the experiences of others and seeing the bigger picture that’s influencing your experiences and opportunities.
Lead image courtesy of Jessica Sutherland
This was originally published on The Establishment on October 24, 2016.
2016 was a shitty year in a lot of ways for a lot of people but personally, it was actually a pretty good year for me.
Now I need to keep telling myself that that's ok.
This essay was published on The Establishment on December 5, 2016.
It's about how Black people can become promoters of white supremacy. Like Trevor Noah and other Black people whose success hinges on appeasing white supremacy.
This was originally published on The Establishment on October 18, 2016.
TW: This essay discusses rape and the fervent protection of white males at all costs.
This was originally published on The Establishment on July 18, 2016.
In July 2016, a white mother wrote about how she teaches her Black son about his Blackness. She fucked it up so I wrote about it.
This essay was originally published on The Establishment on November 10, 2016.
This election, yo. The chips are gonna fall for more white people than they realized.
