E for effort

You see me? I was the type of student who stayed up in the teacher’s ass. I sat in the…

Crying for strength

A draft from January … Tonight I cried. Again. But this time on Instagram Live. In front of people. Ew.…

Being Black American is such an awkward feeling. I don’t feel like I belong here. And if you ask the…

You ever met somebody who had ALL the STDs? Welp, that would be me. Well, maybe not all of them.…

I’m scared as shit to lose my mom. Out of every person here on this Earth, she is the one…

I already told y’all about my HIV status. And how I can’t stand my daddy. Hmmm. Y’all know about these…

I’m up late tonight. It’s adrenaline. And this beautiful sense of peace. I’m coming up on a year of having…

Imagine that this was your last day on Earth. And now imagine that you knew this your entire life? You…

Never would I ever think that I would be the one telling the story from this side. But they told…

Have you ever been verbally abused? That shit doesn’t feel good. I never knew what to call it. I just…

Wow. Addiction runs strong in my family. You name it. We done did it. Crack? We been on that. And…

Like many other people, I struggle with my body image. I fix my eating habits for a little while and…