Month: October 2015

So tonight I decided to run to the mall to get my eyebrows did. I threw on something and headed out. As I  was walking to my car I realized I didn’t put on a bra! I thought of Sister Veejah’s #sexspeaks story about living bra-free life and it was her words that pushed me…

Everyday there is an increasing emotional downward spiral. Another time in which we have to acknowledge that we are Black in America and living in fear. Today I learned that there will be no indictment in the murder of Sandra Bland. In an attempt to block the pain I couldn’t even look directly at the…

According to Wikipedia, “The word negrophilia is derived from the French négrophilie that literally means love of the negro. It was a term that avant-garde artists used amongst themselves to describe their passion for black culture.” Born out of the french’s obsession with all things African during the 1920s and 1930s or THEIR COLONIZATION OF AFRICA….

Part six, the final post in the Incomplete Thought Series is me expressing happiness to not have an extra layer of fucked up-ness in the daily struggle of being black. I read a post from a sister that I am in a social media group with and it’s sad.  She said her white mom was…

Part five of the Incomplete Thought Series is short, but poignant. In my negritude. In the black skin that I am in, how do I wake up and face a world that is Anti-African? by