I hope I was of good service to you. — It started with hands. He laid his hands out on the table with his palms facing upward, indicating that I should lay my own on top. I was hesitant, an eczema flare-up had left dark scaly marks where there had once been smooth skin on mine, and I was insecure. …

Aka TikTok’s lackluster attempt at helping its Creators monetize their content — I opened my TikTok “Creator tools” menu, I believe, check to see how much I had received from TikTok’s Creator Fund. I scrolled to the bottom to find the menu button for it and discovered a new option selection below it. It read, “TikTok Series”, with a little icon with…

Why do women downplay their intelligence for the benefit of others? — Playing dumb is a skill. It takes effort to suppress the natural human desire to tote one’s success. Some like to show off as pompous braggarts, while others may prefer to do so silently with a Louis Vuitton wallet. But, given the current state of the world, where putting yourself…

I’m not your dog — I was out with a guy. It was my first real interracial dating experience. We were sitting side by side, and his arm was around my shoulders. For a while, I had been primarily keeping my hair braided underneath a scarf. But that day, I was feeling a bit spicy…

I hate myself — How are you feeling today, my dear reader? Let’s do this; I’ll tell you how I’m feeling and then you’ll say how you’re feeling — how you’re really feeling. And I want you to do it aloud if possible. Ok, here goes. I hate myself. But not in that way. …

“….you ain’t gotta believe what I believe, but you gotta believe the results.” — The other night I was watching a sermon about finances on YouTube by Pastor Michael Todd. All of it was thought-provoking but there was one quote that stood out to me the most. The lead-up to this quote was an example of how money follows mastery in a certain craft…

Some content creator slander for the soul — I am overwhelmed. Genuinely I am suffocating, drowning really in self-help and start-up content. And I’m tired. That big, ugly, green jealousy monster is starting to grow in me. When I see these titles, “How I made $$$$ in just X amount of time on this platform that is focused…

It simply feels like objectification — Warning: This article contains minor spoilers. Last night I decided to hunker down and binge-watch Amazon’s new original show Swarm which was directed by Adamma Ebo and Donald Glover. I haven’t finished just yet, but I’m plowing my way through. I first heard about the show from an Instagram post…

A piece of prose on toxic intimacy — My toxic lover, we are doomed. We are doomed to be together and yet apart at the same time. Physically, we may join in that ritual, that private, bedroom tango that strings many couples together. But mentally, we will never be one. Yet there’s something about your merengue, a certain…