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I Woke Up in America.
I woke up in America today. I woke up to the sound of my husband retching. He was (is?) having a flare-up of his unexplained cyclic...
Nov 7, 2024


Daughter of Immigrants
Young Black girls, those born to parents with foreign birth certificates and even more foreign values, aren't born for themselves.
Jun 19, 2024


FREE(DOM) WRITING! #1
I haven't posted anything on this blog in 9000 years, and we are going to focus on something else because aren't there more important...
Mar 10, 2024

The Role Grief Holds in Our Movements
(This is a post I started to write months ago as we were going into December, hence the discussion of weather and timelines that may not...
Mar 26, 2023


Developing My Personal Praxis of Abolition, Transformation, & Black Radical Collectivism
Hi, friends and readers! For however long I have been writing in this blogging space, I have been using it primarily as a way of...
Aug 20, 2022


What Can We Do?: Desire for Action and Thoughts on the Roles of Policy and Public Health Research
I've always thought that research was a "cool" and essential way to prove that we need certain systems-level and community-level changes....
May 26, 2022

Community Health Series: Funding Structures
What does soft money mean? Hello, welcome back to my bi-monthly blog post (as in I post every other month, not twice a month). No, but...
Mar 24, 2022

Community Health Series: The Pursuit of Happiness
I've been having some deep feelings lately about what I am here for and how much of my energy should be invested in myself vs. those...
Jan 6, 2022


This Post is Really Just Me Crying for a Little
I'm sick and tired and I feel like life is really hard right now. Relationships are hard to maintain and repair, especially within the...
Jul 6, 2021

Bookstagram: My May Hopefuls
If you don't already know, I started a Bookstagram account as a way to reignite my love of reading by combining it with my love of...
May 5, 2021


The In Between: The Wait Between an End and a Beginning
I realized that I am the most uncomfortable in the periods that I refer to as the in-between. The in-between is the period of time where...
Apr 28, 2021

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[Black] Girl Travels: MPLS
Welcome back to the blog, friends. I would love to say I am coming at you on an extremely high note, but as I sit in the airport with my...
Apr 13, 2021


The Value of Nuance
I have been in the middle of a lot of discussions lately that have made me value my lack of confidence in my opinion. Why? Well, because...
Mar 25, 2021


Read This If You Can't Make a Decision
If you grew up like me, you were led to believe that your whole life is a conglomerate of all of the decisions you make. Make the wrong...
Feb 3, 2021

Reflections: Being Dharma Adjacent on The Work Ethic Podcast
Cover image by @milkandhoneymade on Instagram.
Jan 10, 2021


Why I Made an Instagram for My Cat and Other Things I Won't Apologize For
First of all, I sincerely want to wish all of you a Happy New Year! 2020 was awful and honestly, all we can wish for is better health and...
Jan 2, 2021


What's an American Value?
This post is just about some interesting information that I came across. There's a survey that comes out every October that I heard about...
Nov 22, 2020


Self Sabotage is Selfish: A Note About Trauma and Depression
Image from ABC Photo Illustration
Nov 7, 2020

Senior Year in a Pandemic: 21 Things I've Learned
Cheers to hopefully a better next 21 years. Cover image by: Destiny Darcel (@destinydarcel on Instagram)
Aug 21, 2020

I'm Not a Hypocrite: Confessions of an Imperfect Believer
Cover art by Stormy Mae Nesbit (@_stormae on Instagram)
Aug 12, 2020
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