It’s happening now: A massacre in Sudan. And I know it’s not being plastered all over your screens, Like the…
Hear This
We will never be enough, being a woman will never be enough. Creator, life giver, carrier, and still, we will…
Appeasement
A year ago: Sorry you feel uncomfortable Sorry I shattered your idyllic visions and Sorry I tarnished your childhood home…
Imprints
Imprints on our skin, fresh in our blood: Straighten your hair, they slurred, as they staggered past. Straighten for you…
Suicide and self-harm are not trends
Creating my own blog has allowed me to interact with the vast online writing community but has also exposed me…
Appreciation or Appropriation?
Halloween season is upon us and I’m sure almost everyone is frantically trying to decide on a costume for the…
Caste aside
The last line of my first blog post reads ‘Black people need to do better.’ Now, eight posts later and…
Don’t blame her, don’t shame her
Girl, 20, raped in the early hours of Sunday morning. ‘What was she wearing? Was she showing too much skin.…
Longing for the fruit of my ancestral garden
‘Go home. You’re not welcome here. Go home.’ Show me home, this place which you shriek and shout of, this…
Abuse of power
Being a celebrity is to be well-known and famous, to be liked, disliked and followed. And so, holding this status…
