I can’t bring myself to write about Kobe. I thought him invincible, in the same way Prince was eternal. The ruthlessness, The callousness against fellow man, As…… Read more “The Week Past: A Poem for Kobe”

This is the second part of my “What is the Empress?” editorial focus. In trying to create better stories for Black personhood, I am examining Sade Adu,…… Read more “The Claim: Sade’s Early Years and her Complicated, Conflicted Blackness”

Notes on the week of January 12th, 2020. On the Simpsons, the voice actor of Apu will no longer perform the role. My father banned my brother…… Read more “The Week Past: Apu, the Water Dancer, Pork Lard and Horizon Zero Dawn, and “What is the Empress?””

Through examining key moments in my life, I examine the impact that Sade has had on the development of my personhood. It is 2003. I was 17…… Read more “What is the Empress?: Sade Adu and my Personhood”

I had blogged and journaled, flippantly, for many years before the police murdered Alton Sterling and Philando Castile on film. Their shootings—or, that the end of their…… Read more “Better Stories for Black Personhood”