If you search “Millennial Girl Twitter” you’ll find tweets on the challenges of making friends as an adult. Add in a global pandemic and you’ve got a recipe for months of loneliness. So, when our “PoST c0vID w0Rld ” slowly opened back up, I became resolute that I would make friends. Of course, I did […]
Culture
The Ministry of Insecure
How can a show about nothing, serve as a weekly sermon for us all? Reflecting on five seasons of a show that has and will continue to be part of the Black cultural zeitgeist is not an easy feat. I alone can think of at least a dozen think pieces I could write on such […]
Own Your Brand
Well, I did it. My blog is three years old and I can say this is one of my proudest accomplishments. My passion for writing has only grown since launching. Though I may not have stayed consistent with publishing, I know the joy I find in writing will always remain. Three full years of putting […]
92 Things that Brought Me Joy in 2020
No need to recap the bad, let’s get right to the good. Dying My Hair Purple (a childhood dream). Successfully navigating a full semester of graduate school online. Moving into a new apartment. I am truly living the New York Dream. My plant babies and teenagers. The Jhene Aiko Concert at Radio City Music Hall […]
Other Duties As Assigned: The Invisible Burden of Being Black at Work
In a time in America, I’m dubbing “the awakening”, where non-Black identifying people all over the country are finally listening to the voices of Black Americans, I debated adding my voice to the conversation. Everyone is sharing books, everyone is asking, “What can I do?”, everyone is donating, everyone is sharing news. But when it […]
Top 100 Albums of the 2010’s
Yes! It’s another “Best of”, “Top X” list you did not ask for, but here we are. Below you’ll find a finely tuned and curated list of my Top 100 (plus a few extra) albums of the 2010’s. What albums are your favorite of the decade? 2010 Arcade Fire The Suburbs Drake Thank Me Later […]
