Centering, Uplifting & Celebrating Brown Girls
Facebook keeps asking me to fundraise or to ask my friends to support a cause in honor of my birthday, which is coming up very soon. I’m pretty sure that the idea is for people to give to non-profit organizations but... I am a special cause. Give me money. Seriously. I understand that the idea …
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Last year's critically acclaimed visual album, Lemonade grabbed hold of every sister circle in earshot and refused to let them go. The celebration of love, scorn and redemption carefully woven together with poetry by Warsan Shire is Beyoncé's greatest non-human creation to date. As we coasted through our days screaming, "Don't hurtchoself!" and "I AINT SORRY!", …
A poor nights sleep and early wake up time left me with body aches. For some reason, I started thinking about growing older. Nearly all of my closest friends are about ten years older than me. I wondered when I'd start befriending younger women whose energies spoke to me, I thought about the insight into …
I went shopping today. I bought some firsts for each of my kids. Training pants for one, school supplies for the other. Some might say they are both a little too young for these things, but knowing their potential, knowing what they are already capable of, to not help them along will limit them. They …
Today, Brown Girls Out Loud is kicking off our Milk and Motherhood series. In the coming days and weeks, we will celebrate life and love but before we do, we will honor Korryn Gaines and acknowledge the mother she was not permitted to be. In her death, let's remember that her life was revolutionary and …
The month of August has been coined National Breastfeeding Awareness Month in the United States. The month is kicked off with World Breastfeeding Week, named by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action(WABA). The last has is known as Black Breastfeeding Week, celebrating Black nursing parents and bringing attention to health and access to resource disparities …
They are here, officially, and fabulous. And so is their mother. In the middle of the night (for us East Coast folk), Beyoncé hopped onto Instagram to make her first announcement of the arrival of her divine progeny to celebrate their first month of life. By the time I woke up, over six million people …
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Friday afternoon, a verdict of "not guilty" was announced. Officer Jeronimo Yanez walked out of Minneapolis courthouse a free man on Friday, 11 short months after murdering Philando Castile. Phil (as he was known) was killed in a traffic stop when his fiancée, Diamond, was pulled over. Yanez approached the vehicle. Phil disclosed that he …
Both of us have been banned from Facebook. I've seen countless friends navigate and have been angry and swearing at the silencing of my friends. But, I have to tell you, its harder to be the one banned. Not being able to connect with your friends, to support them when they post about having hard …
The art of preserving family history has probably existed for as long as humans have had language. In general communication, I can imagine the first people passing down ways to find food, how to make tools and how to stay safe laced with stories about the people who taught them; their kin. It was passed down …
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