1. My life. 2. My mother, carrying me, loving every iteration of me. 3. My father, at my back, thinking always of my safety. 4. My sisters. Warrior rock comrades […]
Tag: beyonce
music that got me through
This morning I woke up before the kids did, in the light of a Christmas tree, thinking of my ghosts. I’ve also been thinking about the rebel Jesus…faith is a […]
reviews: on the run, long division, fka twigs, and more!
so the world has been really giving us a toxic dose of black suffering and bodies under assault lately. it feels like half the black names i hear in the […]
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pop vent: on ‘me, i am mariah…the elusive chanteuse’
I normally pop vent in private. You know – if you can’t think of something nice to say, just spill it over a nice bourbon to your best friend. But […]
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napowrimo poem 11: drunk in love
prompt: write about wine-and-love. there there blurred morning pouring too soon through that sliver of window and onto the mussed bed hush please whisper my night eyes north stars for […]
beyonce: the conference call
so after my initial reaction to Beyonce’s album, i was still flabbergasted and needing to process. i asked on facebook if others needed that. some people said yes. at 5 […]
Beyonce: album review
it’s a straight up lie to call this a review when it’s a turned-out-last-night style love note. however, ‘i’m a grown woman’ and thus ‘can do whatever i want.’ i […]
pretty wings
my friend lester wrote a recommendation of me, in some twitter format which i don’t understand, but what i did like was that he talked about merging pop culture and […]