Colour Me Black
Black child's mother says her ears gave it away
The hint of shame on an otherwise perfect face
Good Hair
Good Hair speaks to the upliftment and love for all women of colour. The influence of colourism and hair type bias has been an ugly remnant of a social conditioning adopted from slavery that is still very much alive and well today.
Belonging To Barbuda
Sally: You bring me here to ask foolish questions like that?
Featurism, not Colourism
The public praise for women who look “exotic” or “mixed” and the ridicule women with more evident African features have faced in the Black community have caused insecurities in Black women.
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.
Returning to natural roots
Representing how more black women have been embracing their natural hair…
Colourism and Good Hair
As a beautiful young Caribbean woman, I want to say that I love my hair in all its kinks and coils.
Dark Coffee
“Sadie you make me so mad. You skin too dark. You see this?” Sticking her hand in Sadie’s face for her to see she continued, “This is the color you supposed to get. A nice brown skin. Nice light brown skin. That’s what you supposed to get. Why you so black!?”, another tug of her hair, “Why? Black means poverty and light skin means wealth. You are nothing but a poor little unwanted child and I HATE you.”
Alice
When mi tell yuh seh mi hate Alice, mi mean mi hate har lackka piezen. Yuh wouldda neba believe seh me an’ she a sista.