Belonging To Barbuda
Sally: You bring me here to ask foolish questions like that?
Fam Constellation - Me Kali
Everyone has to thrive in order for the system itself to thrive, every display of hate is only an unexpressed need to feel valid.
Ouroboros
Through all layers and fits it slithered
Though still I scrambled to look decent
Isolation
I am comfortable in my own skin…
Shedding- the mitoXANDRIA
In order for any woman to grow she must shed every mindset that doesn’t fertilise her purpose…
Masking
Isolation 1
This piece is full of pathos, evoking pity and sadness…
Mental Health
After my mom died…
I lied to my therapist
Shit! Back at it again. You see, one thing those mental health gurus fail to tell you on instagram lives is how much relapse is a bitch.
This is Not Love
Control is not love. Obsession is not love. Harassing a person to respond in a certain time frame is not love. That’s entitlement.
Take Flight
Once a year you give me permission the fly above your judgement so you may enjoy me
…. You think.
my old foe
you make me a foreigner in my own country
where disbelieving citizens welcome me with open arms
because they think I bring tourism dollars.
you rear your sinister head every time i return
and make me wonder if this is why i left.
Live Free
Your thoughts and words are of no consequence to me.
I am free.
Returning to natural roots
Representing how more black women have been embracing their natural hair…
Unlearning anti-Blackness
It was only after my hair started to grow into its own, after my hair started to gain length that the attitude they had changed. It went from “yuh good hair yuh cut off” to “you get your hair from me; you know Guyanese hair does grow long and nice”. Recently an aunt said in conversation that Black hair can only grow long if you’re mixed with something... I didn’t feel comfortable hearing that.
Carnival Hangover
It have people who, when they play mas does get tired, does need to pee, does complain they foot burning them. Not her. And though she was the kind of can’t mash ants girl who never let no man pass his place with her – the very cliché of a stoosh bank employee, Carnival was different.
The Rebellion
“This ana jus fa you!”
“Carnival ah fo arwe too!”