In honor of Pride, we’re celebrating some of our favorite queer folks who live in the revolutionary spirit of Pride through their unapologetic self-love, activism, and creative expression. Here’s a short list of badass queer icons out in the community that deserve endless support for their culture-shifting work as writers, artists, educators, and movement leaders. […]
Category: Self-Love
I Quit My Job For Mother’s Day
I quit my job for mother’s day. How surreal it feels to put that into writing because had you asked me a week ago if I would be stepping fully into my purpose so soon, I would have laughed in your face. […]
A Collection On Loving and Letting Go
The following reflections are the result of two years spent learning how to hold hope, grief, and love in the same place. In spite of myself, I’ve grown more comfortable opening up to my own emotional depth as a way to live more authentically. Sharing this collection of thoughts is a conscious exercise in exploring intimacy — with myself just as much as all of you. […]
Forget Resolutions: Here’s 9 Things We Learned This Year
Whether you hustled throughout the past year or laid low… The main theme of 2021 was adaptation. We adapted how we engage in our relationships, how we plan for the future, and the ways we take care of ourselves (or at least we try to). Usually, we are ready to skip ahead and create visions […]
Social Media Taught Me Boundaries
Social media is our community center, our workplace, our vision board. But, when left unchecked our longing for external validation, through social media, can become toxic. […]
Putting in the Work: Self Reflection and the Shadow
Everyone thinks they have an idea of what their future will look like, and then something like COVID makes us all realize that it is never ‘for sure. […]
2020 — Ten Reflections
Last week Niara said to me, “2020 was low-key your year.” And you know what—as brutal as 2020 was, I couldn’t argue with her. I went back to grad school after a hiatus, signed to WeSpeak models, reached the 6-figure milestone with my freelance business, finished mixing the Imanigold EP, started a podcast, and I’m […]
Think Twice Before Taking Cheap Shots at the Unemployed
If you’ve never been on unemployment, poor, scrambling to pay basic bills—all while trying to keep a family together—count your blessings and think twice before taking cheap shots at people who are doing whatever they can to get by right now. Being unemployed sucks. As someone who has been on unemployment quite a few times […]
On Work, Identity, And Self-Actualization
I’ve been thinking about how work and career exist in US culture and how that might affect mental health and identity. It seems everyone in my life (myself included), is having some sort of crisis around work—not having it, fear of not having it, big changes, identity, title. So I’m going to talk about it, […]
Black Women Are Making Strides This Nation Should Be Making
The necessity of the fight for Black people’s liberation is always real to me. The notion that Black suffering is anything but an emergency rings so dissonantly to me that my core completely rejects it. Slavery is cruel, slavery is evil, and that evil and cruelty are so vibrantly, wildly, and aggressively alive. Here is […]