‘Can You Really Be a Queer Muslim?’: Intersectionality and the Complexity of Identity
Not All Skin Folk Are Kin Folk: You Don't Like Black Women and We Don't Care
Black women are still being force-fed the lesson that not all skin folk are kin folk through podcasts, YouTube videos and TikToks. For some reason, a slew of people – Black men in particular – decided it was time to crap on Black women’s existence. Where this trend came from and why it keeps randomly happening is extremely odd, but I can tell you one thing: Black women do not care…
Why I No Longer Want To Be The ‘Strong Black Woman’
For a lot of my life, I tried my best to twist myself into the shape of a ‘strong black woman’. No matter what was going on in my life, I had to be the ‘strong black woman’. While I now know that I am in fact a strong woman, I know too that this was a mask I wore because I had no clue of who I actually was.