thirty-something. someone’s momma. black latina. moldavite-type vibrations. award-winning storyteller penning a memoir. @vibemagazine x @xonecole x @teenvogue.
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mercury done retrograding; is it safe to come back out now? the past few weeks have been: shamefully screaming @/fighting cicadas in the street, booking intl flights, wondering how i’ma lose weight before mid-august + celebrating the boys completing 15 months of virtual learning.
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“Gifted” children simply are not a substitute for adults taking political responsibility for the things which adults must face. We have grown accustomed to children being braver than our heads of states, but this is not normal, nor fair to the children we are asking to save us.
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Registration is open for The Miseducation of Brown Girls (Virtual) Summer Camp and slots are filling up FAST 👀 don’t miss the magic, save your seat, here: thedinnertabledoc.com/misedu…
this. took me a minute to realize my sons’ “moodiness” was attributed to not eating enough/right or they needed to take a nap, but was powering through class/homework = the same things that cause a *big* attitude in me. they “act up” when the basics aren’t being fulfilled.
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for those who left the last VERZUZ without the awareness of who laid this classic song down originally cuz there was no acknowledgement of the group that recorded it FIRST. Salute to
The Jones Girls
You can look everywhere, but nothing top’s a mother’s love. Shirley Jones (@JonesGirlShirle) performs Who Can I Run To on @DJCassidy's #PassTheMic: BET Mother’s Day Edition. #PassTheMicOnBET
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“You move forward by playing with the constraints, not avoiding them.” Brian Massumi, Politics of Affect
wondering why I work/produce the best when there are deadlines breathing down my back and if anxiety + virgo placements have anything to do with it.
self-care on a mother’s day sunday looks like sitting in the car in silence for about 20 minutes just to close my eyes before going in the house as a gift to myself. bless.
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Counting down the days until the most melanated food series in history hits the stream!!! 🌊🌊🌊
2-step prep: 1)buy and read a copy of Dr Js (@africooks) High on the Hog and 2) Plan the 5/26 menu. What we eating!?
“The truth is, a lot of American food has its roots in African American food, traditions and ingenuity.”
A feast for all the senses, #HIGHONTHEHOG is a culinary journey celebrating Black America’s resilience & contribution to American cuisine.
#HIGHONTHEHOG streaming May 26
glad my job knows never to look for me on my kids’ birthdays, three days before/after my birthday + mother’s day—all holidays you can never get me to work ‘round these parts.
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Today our family lost a true friend and loyal companion. For more than a decade, Bo was a constant, gentle presence in our lives—happy to see us on our good days, our bad days, and everyday in between.
writing on the intersections of being both someone’s parent + someone’s child on mother’s day weekend feels glorious this year when it’s for a book.
‘ego death’ by the internet won’t ever get old and syd’s voice in the space between midnight + dawn is a dream.
exploring the exact keys to a song. a missing ingredient to a recipe my granny won’t let up on, but has given me clues to. the connection to the family’s names. fusing the inquisitive side w/ the pen is a different kind of love.
“the ability to look back on my past work + not feel shame or not feel anxiousness about what I believed + knowing that anything that I wrote in the year before this one helped carry me to this book.” —@NifMuhammad
it’s *this* that I feel deep in my belly. YES to this interview.
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