"Not only are the hit songs, stars and soap operas cyclically recurrent and rigidly invariable types, but the specific content of the entertainment itself is derived from them and only appears to change." - The Cultural Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
"When you have a sense of a language where people talk about you and you're not meant to understand- and yet you do- you start to read life very differently." -Isaac Julien in Riot
"When things are tough being positive is the best revenge." -Anna Wintour
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... Continue Reading →
#BlackGirlMagic is not a Cult
Today I'm writing this post to remind and ensure everyone that #BlackGirlMagic is not a threat to white people, 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... Continue Reading →
Types of Privilege – Part Two
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... Continue Reading →
"Give people time. Give people space. Don’t beg anyone to stay. Let them roam. What’s meant for you will always be yours." -Reyna Biddy
“For despite the great efforts of traditional historians, the past is not something that can be kept in order—kept in place.” – Jennifer A. Gonzalez
Famous Last Words 