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I want everyone to care about stories that aren’t their own, that aren’t necessarily what they think they could relate…
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This week’s essay is posted on The Thought Erotic for its inauguration issue, “We the People Won’t Be…
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Since I’ve been staying in my home town with my mom for the holidays, I’ve had exchanged pleasantries and had…
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My Writing-For-Freedom Summer has come to an end. I learned under instructors I would like to take back to…
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Today I begin a month-long series of summer workshops in essay and poetry that I hope will focus me for…
Last night, as I was wracking my brain to come up with an end-of-year post that was reflective, inspirational and…
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Around this time last year, I was parked in the lobby of a hotel in Tobago (the smaller island of…
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Last month, I unveiled my new personal mission statement: to help Black women and girls in my community discover…
Since January, I’ve been making an effort to accept my own challenge of re-envisioning God. I made a silent commitment…
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I started writing this on a Saturday night after making a to-do list for Sunday that had me wondering, “Why…
I’m a little late on looking back, but I wrote 67 posts in 2013. Here’s my top 10 list of…
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I started to title this post, “Braving the Bitch,†or “Free to Be Bitchy,†but I was afraid readers would…
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When I read See Jane Write magazine’s call to “#BlogLikeCrazy†(that is, to post something every day for the entire…
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Many years ago, my father said that by the time I have children, they’ll be white kids dipped in chocolate….
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A few quick observations/insights from my first night at VONA: 1. My workshop leader is intense and fierce. Imagine an…
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***Update 6/11/2013: If writers of color need a space to gather, their books need a place to be sold, and…
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I swear, the things I find in weekend reading. I saw a headline in my daily e-blast from The Root…
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On this last day of 2012, I’m sharing the moments from throughout the year that are most memorable to me…
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As a writer, I love subtext, and Shonda Rhimes does it brilliantly. The genius behind “Grey’s Anatomy†and “Scandal 
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“to be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation…
UPDATE 8/25: Watch the full broadcast here. I’ve promoted this appearance like crazy on Facebook and Twitter, but somehow, I…
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I must not be up on my feminism game. Apparently, I’ve missed the wave of abortion “coming out” stories…
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