I just saw this on black academic’s blog, and I’m just so happy because I may be able to go to this screening. I did an interview with the director, Aishah Shahidah Simmons a few years ago when the film was still in production: Through testimonies from Black women survivors, commentaries from acclaimed African-American women [...]

So I hung out with Samira this past Saturday, and that was fun. It was kind of hectic because it was actually a business meeting of hers that she asked me to come to, and I said yeah because I missed seeing her the week before when we were supposed to go out and have [...]

I came across the writer Kola Boof online a year and a half ago. She just knocked me out, she seemed so daring and vivacious and full of life. She has such a fierce love for her people! I was so astonished at the things she said and did – she goes topless on her [...]

Where would I be without my friends? I don’t want to imagine it. The stress in my life these past few months (marriage crumbling, health problems, etc) would have broken me if I didn’t have my friends. I am a sometimey-social person, but my basic core is a solitary self. My children, and then Brian, [...]

She was my friend. My very good friend, for many years. We shared two houses together. In one duplex she lived upstairs, me and my kids downstairs. The next duplex was side-by-side. She had four kids when I met her, I had two. We both had baby daddy drama. Both houses had a front and [...]