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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Be seen…

Every woman wants to be noticed.  Every woman wants to be desired. Every woman wants to be loved. But we have to love ourselves first. Being a big woman my entire life, I decided as…

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God Help the Child… Dressed in All-White

“You should always wear white, Bride. Only white and all white all the time.” “Not only because of your name, but because of what it does to your licorice skin.” “If you must have a…

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