I started writing my book 7 years ago. I concocted a fake virus that would kill off most of the American population to create a situation in which white people would be the minority. Now, obviously none of that is happening exactly like that, but here we are amid […]
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It’s hard for me to write with everything going on in the world. On one hand, I knew our current state of the world—the pursuit of capitalism above all else—couldn’t continue forever, but I never imagined the world as we know it would come to a screeching halt in my lifetime.
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To what country do I owe my national pride? My first experience around many people of international origin was during my college days in Miami, Florida. If you’re unfamiliar, Miami is a melting pot of people from many Latin American and Caribbean countries. Calle Ocho Festival (an annual block
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He’s Trump’s political twin with a donkey sticker on his a**. I see ad after ad of “stop-and-frisk” Bloomberg with Black faces endorsing him. The ads say all the “right” things, but it is nothing more than pandering. Look at this man’s record, please. Look at the racist things
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Information is controlled by corporate media to maintain the status quo. Algorithms anyone? Those algorithms curate the content we see online. Same news stories on repeat on every channel. We are told what to think and we comply. For instance, most people identify as Democrat or Republican. In a
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I’m a sucker for dystopian fiction. Books with governments with crazy leaders, ridiculous laws– laws that might have been once well-intentioned, but have gone awry like a robot that knows no reason. I enjoy reading about the teenage protagonists that manage to overthrow these monstrosities– the regimes always do
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I lived in the American South most of my life—20 years actually: North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, and now Arkansas. And I was born in Georgia. I actually consider myself a northern girl at heart. I was never taught Southern charm. Half of my family is from the Northeast.
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We have a culture in wallowing in negativity. I am currently fighting to change my mind, literally, change my daily and hourly thoughts. I’ve always based my writing on negativity. It’s how I coped with issues I didn’t have anyone to talk to about. It’s so hard. Negativity is
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Some of my earliest hair-related memories involve my mom washing my curls in the kitchen sink while I lay on my back on the counter. Water sloshed down my back and splashed my face. I remember the heat of the blow dryer and the burn of the hot comb
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I’ve been blogging for more than 10 years. If you’d like to count my free open diary days, it’s been about 15 years. When I started, blogging was a way to relay my day-to-day experiences, and feel like I had someone to talk to. I hoped the world was
