Identity

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My Fears (Ranked)

Before writing this list, I was worried I wouldn’t be able to come up with 10, let alone 13, fears. Boy, was I wrong!

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Dating the Lesbian Vampire

She’s mysterious, gothic, and has a taste for human blood. Oh, and she’ll probably steal your girl, unless Netflix kills her first.

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In Defense of Black Rural America

There are no street lights. No crosswalks nor stoplights to mark your location. 

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Top Five Questions/Concerns/Insatiable Fears I Have About Leaving College

1. What am I going to do after I graduate? 

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7 Ways of Looking at a Black Woman

I’m standing at the intersection of identity / Each piece of me yielding for another / But sometimes there’s a collision 

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Nine Sapphic Books I Read This Summer

Goodbye Sapphic Summer. Hello Sapphic September!

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We've Got Mail

Dear Future Jordan,

Do you remember when we discovered Percy Jackson?

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To My Middle School Idols

Middle school, almost by definition, is not supposed to be a place where anyone thrives.

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In My Ideal Universe

My body, mind, and soul are a solar system

Made up of hundreds of moons, millions of asteroids, and a multitude of planets

The depth of my composition largely unexplored

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ቡና : Coffee : Liquid Gold

An ode, an homage to these storied Ethiopian highlands, a chess board of the gods as Homer once said, where goats and shepherds have become their chess pieces, shrouded in the gauzy mist of early dawn. A curious goatherd rolls the beans up and down the length of his sun-kissed calloused fingers—a tradition is born.