Clumps of wrinkled, white flesh hang from grandmother’s face and pool in the nape of her neck like turkey waddle. Her eyelids…
When my little sister invited me to be her Maid of Honor, she sent me a pretty tin container filled with heart-shaped…
Daddy straddled the heap of toys that lived on the floor of our playroom in Brentwood, Long Island. Tiny plastic arms splintered…
“Sit still.” I braced myself for the familiar sting of the plastic comb against some vulnerably-exposed area of my head, neck or…
My nails kept time on the arm of the chaise to the ticking of the wall clock. I looked at her blankly,…
I hope tomorrow will bring a better you, better me I know that we’ll show this world we got more we could…
I am the only girl in my family. When I say ‘only’ I do not mean that there aren’t any women anywhere…
Has it happened to you? Maybe you’re scrolling through Twitter searching… no, damn near begging for a meme of happiness… then BOOM!…
A typical Sunday morning as a millennial five-year-old Black girl may have gone like this: She awakens. She needs to go to…
Every Friday night I come home from work, change my clothes and I flop down on the couch. In my head, I…
The alarm pings and the piercing sound reverberates through the walls. My eyes blur to make out that it’s 6:00 am. I…
My journey to motherhood has at once been a step forward into uncharted territory and a step back into an almost forgotten…
My daughter is black. Skin like turned earth. Eyes the color of midnight. A black freckle on the underside of her wrist…
They built a church on the land where my body was broken. Parishioners come every Sunday morning believing it to be holy…