Black Joy is Resistance

Black Joy is a form of resistance.  To resist the burdens of oppression and to live fully beneath the gaze of white supremacy is RESISTANCE.  When I sing, I have to sing “to the heavens”. …

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Shining, Shining, Shining, Shining… All of this Winning!

     I have said this before, especially on Instagram, but I will say it again.  Body positivity, age acceptance, dark-skin love, etc. are movements that exist within the confines of social medias. These movements…

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Votes for Black Women… Just because

Tomorrow marks a first in American History… Kamala Harris will be sworn in as the first Black woman (and Asian) Vice-President of the United States. What a culmination of events following the Black Lives Matter…

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Accessories and Big Girls: A friendship made in heaven…

The proliferation of actual plus size fashion options are a very recent thing.  And I would even argue that the options that are available aren’t even that great, yet and still, they are options.  But…

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Throw Back Thursday…. MAC’s Film Noir

The 1990s was my shit… I mean really.  The early 1990s to be more specific. (The late 1990s brought the demise of my first “real” relationship, motherhood, an extra-long stint in undergrad that would spill…

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