To Be Blonde Badass and Black

I recently listened to Professional Trouble maker author Luvvy Ajai (2021) on Audible this month. I needed a little push to get some things off of my chest and find a new way to support healing along my journey. It's because I am simply just tired of always having to struggle through shit by myself. Besides committing to writing my book, and quietly doing this blog, I have been suffering in silence. Always having to fight alone. Being choked out by pain, shame, sometimes even fear over things I try to say don't matter anymore when I know they still do. Yes the fuck they do. Being abused, ignored, raped, expolited, and medicating myself allowed the bastards who harmed me to kick me in the stomach all the time. And yes, Drinking and Medicating myself was the approach I took to soothing my rage over years and years of motherfuckers getting away with what was taken from me and making life so much harder than it had to be. Now I have a chance to come out of the shadows. Tell all ...

Is today's feminism enough? IS SISTERHOOD ENOUGH? Sounds like a title for debate or an article on whether sisterhood can sustain a woman in today’s lonely world. Can it? And what does sisterhood mean to women today? Is it a social club or a clique? What about Feminism? Is it what it once was a political agenda for women to advance themselves and create power bases of freedom and equality? To make it real simple for me to explore--the question for me has to begin with sisterhood. Has sisterhood been enough for me to remain true to my political ambitions, being an Old Skool Black Feminist? Well on the one hand, the answer is no. That is because Feminism has changed how Black Feminists perceive themselves. And American Feminism, although it tends to “look” like it is all inclusive, it has not necessarily made me feel welcome. I haven't seen enough women of color or from my class going on marches. I haven't heard about power hases of professional black women making room for w...