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Got Me Looking Ridiculous, But It’s All Good
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“Every day won’t feel like awe,” I said to myself out loud. My day was starting off ROUGH. One thing after the other. Headed to TJ Maxx to find a dress for my untamed women performance lecture the next day. Realized I was 30 minutes too early. They hadn’t opened…
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We Got Time: Wild Women Been Saying So
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The Untamed Women event at Carnegie week before last was special. I invited a couple elder wild women that I know personally, and I quoted them in the presentation. The first quote was from Ms. Barbara Price. While replacing the hooks on my wedding dress around this time last year,…
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A Year of Quiet: Off Social Media and into Real Life and What’s Next
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I’m getting off social media. For like a year. I’m so excited about it and I’m terrified, but I’m also getting beaucoup signs to just do it. Here’s a few signs (though I’ve been getting ‘em nonstop): 1: J. Cole! He’s one of my favorite rappers and he recently dropped…
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“Ain’t No Way”: Okra, Perloo, and Proof We All Cousins
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I talk to Moustaph almost every day. He’s my Wolof tutor, based in Senegal. I’m in Savannah, Georgia. Our sessions are part language lesson, part cultural exchange, and part catching up between cousins—because that’s exactly what it feels like we are. We always start with greetings, because in Senegalese culture,…
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The Season for Honoring Ancestors
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I have a business phone and a personal phone. I had the personal phone the longest. Had the phone number for 14 years (I’ll get another phone so I ain’t tripping on the number), and I had the phone for about 6-7 years. A few days ago, it just stopped…