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Thursday, November 03, 2016
Why it Matters: A Discourse on Why We Won't "Shut Up" About Being Black in America
I was having a normal conversation about how working for pennies inspired me to do better in school, and in this I was offering the proof ...
Monday, March 28, 2016
Why God Gave Me Curls
Soft curls from the root downward spiraling, Entwining in clusters, thick and inseparable, They cling together like best friends... And t...
Friday, March 06, 2015
Who Am I: the Revision
Earlier this year I posted a poem called Who Am I . It captured the a portion of what I was feeling, but there was something lacking. So, I ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Think Before You Speak
Microagressions According to Psychology Today ,"Racial microaggressions are the brief and everyday slights, insults, indignitie...
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Moment of Truth: The Length Check
M ost people who step away from relaxers to go natural set hair goals, and one of those goals is usually length related. When I decided to ...
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Mutiny
The summer heat weighs heavy on delicate curls every strand revolting every strand convulsing feelings...
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Wild Thing
Wild thing, Atop my head Shimmying down In bouncing coils... Defiant and untameable You grace the world. Proud in your wildness Stu...
Monday, April 21, 2014
The Way I Wear My Slave Hair
The ability to reduce your own genetics To words and phrases someone else created, And devour your own culture With the fuel and ammunit...
Monday, March 10, 2014
The Curly Love Affair
I can't imagine spending a lifetime Never understanding you, Hiding you away in my ignorance Unable to follow your twists and turn...
Friday, February 07, 2014
Sacred Part of Me:
Spotlight on the Natural Hair Movement Locked in an air tight box, Put on display for the world to see The Pride Tree is cut and...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Beware: the Rant
I read a disturbing article today (a video of the news clip is below). It's from 2009, but I just saw it today and it bothers me to no...
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Ode de Curls
Soft, Springy coils erupting from my head Dance wildly beneath the water And drip oceans in my sink-- Attack brushes and devour pins.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Curl Anxiety
A nyone who has taken the road from relaxed hair to natural hair is very familiar with...anxiety? I use the word anxiety because I think fo...
Thursday, February 28, 2013
The Hair Journey
A s I take a break from installing mini-twists (and question my sanity for ever beginning), I thought it would only be natural to end Black ...
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