Warning: This Will Offend You! Contains Feminist Material.

I don’t know how to describe in words the thoughts in my head and feelings that run through my body on a daily basis to wake up in the world being a woman. It’s not easily encapsulated into a phrase to capture the multifaceted fragments that make up my whole. While my blackness presents aContinue reading “Warning: This Will Offend You! Contains Feminist Material.”

Racial Trauma when Lives Should Matter

​In 1948 the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which guaranteed all people and all nations with certain inalienable rights. Article One, which is titled the Right to Equality, declares, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience andContinue reading “Racial Trauma when Lives Should Matter”

Dreamlike State

Sometimes there are circumstances in life that cause us to become broken beings. And we remain broken for so long, eventually adapting and functioning as we go along, that we can hardly even recall a time when we were unbroken. With others around us as broken as we are sharing similar broken stories. The brokennessContinue reading “Dreamlike State”

Take Time To Breath

The process of taking air into and expelling it from the lungs. Inhale… Exhale… Inhale…. The hardest thing to remember in the midst of overwhelming anxiety is to that I need to breathe. While breathing may be the most simplistic thing I do with very little thought as I go along my daily activities, duringContinue reading “Take Time To Breath”