I can’t explain it—how I feel. But a piece of it is anger. Going through seven years of higher education at two prestigious universities to sit as a provider, in front of a white patient, and them ask you if your knot-less box braids of sheer perfection ‘are a part of your Halloween costume.’ Or…
I’m a black woman. And I’m angry.
Detroit Palette Giveaway
It’s been a while since I’ve done a giveaway! To celebrate my Every Woman feature with Pheobe, CEO of @thefacefx, I’ll be giving away a Detroit Palette to one of my IG followers! To enter, tag a friend from the D (Detroit) under the Instagram ‘giveaway’ post and tell them which of the 15 shades you want…
Every Woman: Pheobe
It was about a week or so before my birthday. I was lying in bed, scrolling IG. It was late, maybe eleven o’clock or so, and a new DM notification popped up. It was Pheobe Scott responding with a heart-eyed emoji to something in my IG stories. I thought, maybe this is a good time to DM…
Happy 4th Birthday Ash!
Yesterday we celebrated my little Noodle turning 4. Asher’s actual birthday was this past Thursday, 9/10, in which we had celebratory pizza and ice cream. Last year we spent his 3rd birthday at Disney World, and honestly, that would have been the case this year too but for COVID. So an intimate home bday party…
Have a lovely week and Wakanda Forever
Ah, yes, the chapter ends today. Tomorrow we start a new one. How are you taking care? I started reading through Vanity Fair’s (The Great Fire) September issue. Whites in Chicago equating the First Great Migration of blacks to the “calamity” of the Great Fire of 1871. The belief in black people as a disaster,…
On Taking Care
Frankly, I used to hate seeing the words “self-care.” To me, it was just trending lingo, another phantom concept, void of actual utility, sort of like the expression “work-life balance.” And it is not at all that I do not believe in taking care of oneself. On all practical levels, I have always been a…