for international women’s day if no means nothing if your word means nothing if laws mean nothing if prayers mean nothing if children mean nothing if life means nothing if […]
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they have taken the girls
I don’t watch a lot of news, but somewhere along my spectacularly bad day yesterday I saw this story about the kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigeria and it devastated me. For […]
napowrimo poem 28: woman problem
prompt: find a news article, and write a poem using (mostly, if not only) words from the article. i chose this article on gender disparity shared by my good friend […]
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 […]
not all love is requited…
yesterday was full of intersection. i spent the morning wrapping up facilitation of a circle of black women focused on black reproductive justice. i spent the afternoon in the company […]
standing with: an election call from my body
as i tune in to this election, i feel the bristling dynamism of my internal complexities and contradictions in my body. i felt moved to write this piece, which is […]
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defining moments
perhaps because i was raised in germany most of my life. perhaps because i am a quarter german, which my blood knew long before my mind did. the stories of […]
a little PTSD…
it’s official! i am a little ptsd. a little phased, a little out of it, a little slow, a little clumsy, a little terrified when im coming into my apartment […]