Endowed with all the peculiar arrogance of a third culture kid, I’ve never thought of the Atlantic Ocean as uncrossable. All those miles of angry water, which for centuries have turned trips…
“Of course you’re here,” he said, “where else would I find you?” Raz and I are sitting on the last two stools of a seven-stool bar in Tokyo. The lights are dim,…
In 2017, I committed to fully going natural and ceremoniously marked the occasion by doing the big chop. It was my first time since childhood being natural again, and since I used…
We were at my grandmother’s funeral, 13 of her kids, and several dozen of us grandchildren. The priest was trying to complete the reading of his passage but my one aunt had…
I didn’t believe I would make it here, to my mid-twenties. I have struggled with suicidal ideation on and off in my life since the age of thirteen, and attempted suicide at…
“Are you ready to have a good day?!” I ask my baby girl in the morning, while en route to school. “Yeah!” she yells with no shortage of enthusiasm. My brown-skinned toddler…
Welcome to Black Women in Quarantine aka #BWIQ, where Black women from around the world share life from quarantine and how it’s changed for them. March 2020 delivered something indescribable to us…
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