it will take me all of six seconds to realize that it’s you this time grocery cart ghosting forward without my grip to steer it until there are peaches everywhere supermarket stained yellow-pink fluorescent blush rushing against a current of unsuspecting customers the sound of each bruise forming with a thud against the floor’s tile…
I am black-ish Nah I am black Everything else is just liner notes. I am a writer Since age 10 I decided this was my true passion in my life. Shy girls must find their place I wrote because I couldn’t speak Afraid of my own voice Ink against paper just seemed quite right. So…
In 1978, writer and activist, Susan Sontag, wrote Illness as Metaphor, a brief but important book that discussed the dangers of attributing larger meaning to sickness and disability. Her thesis, simplified, was that an illness was an illness, not a judgment on character, a commentary on one’s personality, or a statement about society at large.…
my family’s word for an unborn child is speck / so I grew out of a gold void / a kind of molten metal / and a mother’s soft slow wanting / a single dandelion seed blooming / into a forest fire / I was raised a small creature / my sister’s twin shadow /…
I had once made a vow to never leave the house without lipstick. At 17, I was ready to commit to my persona. I would gather my small paycheck from working part-time in a popular mall to spend it all on MAC lipstick bullets, using beauty in full-forced defense towards the oncoming inevitable judgement in the thoughts…
I sit in the first row, clutching a paper ticket in my clenched right fist. My fingers trace the inside of my jacket pocket as I crumple the once-sturdy paper into a hundred little folds. I’m usually not this nervous, but this evening is a special occasion. Tonight is the night when Tonya Harding, my…
The neuronal pathways in my brain are long forgotten. This is the way this goes.
Genderqueer: Of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity cannot be categorized as solely male or female. The top definition of genderqueer on urbandictionary.com states, “Genderqueer is most commonly used to describe a person who feels that his/her gender identity does not fit into the socially constructed “norms” associated with his/her biological sex.…
Getting a voicemail from my mother explaining that she had found topless photos I took from nearly three years ago was the last thing I needed to hear. My mother is a devout Christian and fairly conservative black woman. She’s conservative in that she doesn’t oppose Planned Parenthood, but believes sex before marriage is a sin. This is what Hester…
Dear twenty-year-old me, It’s forty-year-old me. Twice your age. We made it to forty! It’s so much better than you would imagine. You’re in the middle of a pretty rough year – moving into your first apartment with your best friend at the time (we know how that goes), struggling in organic chemistry, realizing that engineering might…
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