My body, my life.
“Who knew a little unbounded sensual self-touch could lead to such liberty?”
Imperfectly Perfect to Me
I am a woman in her twenties with big dreams en route to a beautiful destination and carrying her shitty ovaries, unwillingly, but happily with her.
Coming Home To Me
I’m relearning how to love and honor my inner voice and spirit; I’m reprogramming the negative thought patterns and destructive self-talk that triggers self-doubt to rear it’s ugly head.
Punishment
Dissected, chopped and carved, like a butcher’s plaything / I am repeatedly punished everywhere I reside.
Melanin Quantification
Note to self: Do not allow them to evaluate and quantify your melanin. You are wise, adequate, and pure just as God made all of us.
How I Learned To Love My Melanin Body
From a negative mindset around my melanin features to fully embracing my body and beauty after pregnancy…
The Butterfly on My Neck
At age thirteen, it had grown almost to the size of my fist. / I began to resent it.
As You Grace Us With Another Trip Around The Sun
A love letter, with my whole, beating heart…
Identity of a Mother
Who knows, your greatest weakness might turn out to be your strongest motivation!
What Self-Love Means to Me
Self-love is beautiful and I never truly grasped the meaning behind it until two years ago.
The Cost of Having
Allowing the wrong person into the inner chambers of your heart is dangerous. Probably the most dangerous thing one can ever do.
Blooming in the Dark
To all the others like me stumbling bravely on this dark road, I’ll think of you.
"I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay."
— Tracee Ellis Ross