a necessary response for the intra-communal violence that is becoming common-place #1 | when violence against Black bodies erupted into...

a life-giving reminder for [Black] mommas who need space to be human.

love notes and reminders for Black folx when the world tells we aren't enough

for those who lost our selves in between our prayers and the pandemic somewhere, before the pandemic began, i misplaced my self. many of...

a raw, complicated story of love & loss after child-birth

a lament for sistas who know the traces of whiteness this week, we watched as a dust cloud of whiteness ascended upon the capitol...

a necessary, post-2020 reflection & celebration of self Let's get this out of the way. 2020 was hard. You set a whole lotta goals. Some...

because some trigger warnings live inside of us & don't have to be explained i’ve been quite perplexed by the surprise with which many...

a word on free Black girls/women * if you are reading this, i ask that you read/say the next four lines aloud. Sandra Bland. Breonna...

an up close and personal look at caring for our souls in the middle of a pandemic there was nothing that used to irk my nerves and vex my...

a poetic reminiscing of the sacred power of black women. in the still. of saturday mornings. waking up to the sound of the trumpets. from...

"in the beginning God created"...and Black women clearly must have been there when i think of salvation, i think of black women. not the...

questions about joy & blackness in the social media age. yesterday, i preached for the first time in several months. it was both...

how discovering a gift for writing unlearned my eyes to see beyond the here & now i started writing my first novel when i was 8 or 9...

a remembrance of the written landscapes that transported me - and countless other little black girls - to a place of belonging and a radical

an ode to growing up awkward, owning my particularities, and finding my voice while navigating the publishing world my older brother has...

a lamentation over young lives lost to white supremacy & gun violence a tussle at the shoulder. love taps. someone whispering my name. my...