Voting Still Matters

Register to vote. Now. Now it’s time to research your voting requirements (IDs, etc) for your particular state. Gerrymandering is still a threat, yet democracy is it steak! This is …

August 2022 Book Review: Body On The Line By Chanel Hardy

First off, I will admit that I am biased. Second, I am always going to support Black female authors. What I believe is missing in this body positivity, self appreciation …

The Masculinity Glow Up

If you know me in real life, you know that I’ve always had more male friends and female friends. This comes from me being such a tomboy when I was …

The Necromancy Of Kevin Samuels

Note: This is a pro-Black people space, and I do not celebrate Black men dying. These are my thoughts, only my thoughts, and my demand for change in the lives …

Love Or War & The Tears Of Our Mothers

If you are following whatjayesaid2.0 on TikTok, then you are familiar with what is now affectionately referred to as the Love Or War series. And the series details just exactly …

Learning To Watch The Sunrise…Even In A Pandemic.

My family, from what I have been told and taught, have been bootleggers, moonshiners, sharecroppers and farmers. One of my favorite memories growing up is the natural light in my …

In The Middle Of A Start-Over…

My writer friend Ashley Yates said something last year that has stuck with me: “Black women take care of Black women.” It has taken this pandemic just to see how …

In & Out, Upside Down

Let me be mad.  Black women have more than three emotions. The three emotions most of the world think that women have is: rage, love and bitterness. And they think …

28 (29) Days Of Blackness: Letter To The Rest Of My Awkward Black Kin-I Love All Of You.

I was an anomaly growing up: pretty, smart and Black. I went to public school, had college educated parents, and was reading by age 4. I got my first library …

RUNITBACK FRIDAY-01/24/2020

The Impeachment Hearings are looking like a episode of Divorce Court, Kanye West is now joining a force of missing Black folk in the Sunken Place to form a Supercoon …