I've wanted to write this for a long time, but I've been afraid to. I don't want this to be all about ME and my feelings, but by the nature of writing about my experiences, there's no way for this not to be about me. Also, I don't know if I'm an effective enough writer to not make it ...Continue

I come across many excellent posts on cultural appropriation, but sadly even with all those great resources out there, people remain exceptionally ignorant on the topic. For example, there still seems to be a widely held belief that black women appropriate white hair. This argument is one

Exhibit A, Blending: Salvaged from the corpse of its own mother, a tiger cub will suckle alongside piglets. Mother is a white-lashed, soft sow until the cub sheds its milk teeth and discovers for what it was gifted claws and teeth. When you believe you are the same until you are shown otherwise,

It started over a year ago. Instagram photos began popping up on my "Explore" page showing bloodstained underwear, blood being poured out of DivaCups, bloody fingers that were covered in — you guessed it — period blood. I, too, use a DivaCup in an effort to be environmentally conscious, ...Continue

The wind was still for once, and the smoke settled in circles close to the ground. I stood on a mountain of trash and gazed intently at the glowing horizon as the moment grew closer. Lake Managua sagged off to my left. Heavy and exhausted from too many years of raw sewage disposal, the lake wasn't