Emotionally Present / Lived Experience/Memoir / Personal Is Political / Race/Ethnicity / Time-specific

Hair Revisited: One Year Later

A little more than a year ago, I published this post about how my and everyone else’s relationships with my hair, my race (which isn’t nearly so simple as “I’m a white person!”), and my apparent social gender radically shifted overnight when I started shaving my hair clean off for a full year and a … Continue reading »

Emotionally Present / Lived Experience/Memoir / Time-specific

An Event I Never Thought I’d See For The Second Time

Trigger warning for detailed descriptions of an incident of domestic violence and strongly misogynistic language. — This morning, I was woken up by an obnoxiously loud television. In the past 48 hours, I have spent half that time in bed and still haven’t slept a full 8. I am living in a nightmare and can’t … Continue reading »