Welcome Holy Black Girls!

*TW* my experience as someone torn from their mother by US government officials  She was fun and doing her own thang Living her own life  When they came  About 3 of them and all their friends  To take her from me From us All because they heard her voice  Foreign Other  From elsewhere and not here. The decided to use it  against her  against us.  Crowned her with the scarlet letters "DT" and said she could never return  here. I open this post with an untitled poem dedicated to my mother who was deported from the United States ten years ago. With the installation of our 45th president concerns of borders and citizenship have heightened in more explicit ways. We know that this country that we call home has been notorious in determining who is allowed to call themselves a citizen and who can plant roots that grow deeply here. Mostly, I've tried to steer clear of the stories that tell ...

What does one do when they FINALLY finish school, specifically a Ph. D. program??? They blog about how much they miss it LMAO! Not really. I am full of creative ideas and opinions on all things. So rather than wear my social media followers out with my need to be prolific, analytical, controversial, and conflicted I decided to start this blog. I'm excited about this blog because I believe it will be helpful for me in continuing the work I started in my dissertation. Also, it will allow me an avenue to start some ideas in hopes of developing them for a longer book project. I have so much I want to share about myself and the world around us. This is for the everyday Black girl who knows she is at her best when she is able to be herself. I use my bandbae's, THEE Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown (one of the best teachers on this side of heaven to ever do it), framework to think about Black girls. In her book Black Girlhood Celebration ...