Sienna Morgan, Author at midnight & indigo

From Eden to Gethsemane, and All the Gardens Thereafter

Sienna Morgan — Wed, 14 May 2025 04:00:32 +0000

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers’ time? In our great-grandmothers’ day? It is a question with an answer cruel enough to stop the blood. — Alice Walker My maternal grandmother’s name was Dorothy Chandler Collins. She was born on August 13, 1916. Ma, as we affectionately called her, birthed and raised 13 children, 3 boys, and 10 girls, and had the greenest fingers. Supporting herself and her children as a widow in 1961, she found subsistence in planting and harvesting crops in the fields of Dortches, Battleboro, and Red Oak, North

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The Color Sienna

Sienna Morgan — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 04:00:37 +0000

Si·en·na /sēˈenə/ noun a kind of ferruginous earth used as a pigment in painting, normally yellowish-brown in color (raw sienna) or deep reddish-brown when roasted (burnt sienna). Sienna— Skin the color of beginnings. Both your name and body, painted by God. Both birthed and the birthplace, The tongue has found that your alias is home. Ferruginous one— Exist not to the point of end. You’re permitted to create yourself again if need be. But speak and brush softly. *** Growing up, I don’t remember what I looked like. Beyond the age of ten, I have no recollection, no

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Color Girl: Miss-Guided Blackness

Sienna Morgan — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 20:07:06 +0000

TGIF. LOL. BRB. TTYL. OMG. These are just a few of the text abbreviations that helped to maintain a character limit. Way before articulation became a skill of mine, sending fun-loving texts and fangirling over teen sensations with kids all over the world, was my self-expression. Way before emojis, these acronyms allowed us to keep our message content simple, stylish, playful, and fresh. I’m so excited to stir-up nostalgia and get my hands messy by giving the three most influential girls (now women) of my childhood, their well-deserved and well-grown flowers. Look at those letters a little closer. Do you

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