Oppression’s Essential Guide to Nowhere: Poking Holes in the Roadmap to Success, Part 2

Models promoting the guarantee of middle class success (including the middle class’ guide to upper class status) typically work as follows: You are in a boat with 100 other people trying to reach the same island. They are… Read More
Oppression’s Essential Guide to Nowhere: Poking Holes in the Roadmap to Success, Part 1

I am lectured by my internalized oppression: “A writer? Fool. Do you honestly believe that what you have to say matters or carries any importance in the world? That anyone will want to hear it? You speck. You nothing. The… Read More
Reflections of a Biracial Sellout.

I look into the eyes of my friend whose crisp gaze synthesizes many ways of knowing- beyond the limits of the physical world, reading into me soul-to-soul. Does she know that this is a power she carries? This… Read More