Monthly Archives: February 2017
Why I cut my hair… And Why IDGAF if you don’t like it.
On December 24th 2016, I cut my hair. Naturally, the initial response to my Big Chop was that I was losing my mind: “Why’d you cut off all your hair?” “I guess you could always where a wig.” “I almost fainted.” After a while, I started to wonder whether or not these responses were ones…
#BlackGirlMagic is not a Cult
Today I’m writing this post to remind and ensure everyone that #BlackGirlMagic is not a threat to whiteness, it never has been and never will be. Rather #BlackGirlMagic is a hashtag of empowerment. More and more each day this hashtag has populated the feeds of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and for that we have CaShawn…
Types of Privilege – Part 2
This is absolutely overdue, but better late than never. Today, I’m unpacking five other forms for privilege. Be sure to check out the first part of this blog post here where I deconstruct a few other forms of privilege. With research I’ve collected great samplings from articles that also deconstruct forms of privilege. Links can be…
