Parody

How I Am Teaching My Small Daughters to Play Patriarchy Chicken

Anyway, they didn’t charge our youngest with assault for holding the Bowie knife to the Sheriff’s throat and threatening to bite off his ear. Though threatening a police… Continue Reading

I FOUND HEALING WITH A FAMED SPIRITUALIST: Testimony # 2

People were shocked by what happened to me. They didn’t believe it could be real. I was studied by doctors, I was on TV, I was even abducted… Continue Reading

I FOUND HEALING WITH A FAMED SPIRITUALIST: Testimony 1.

Then their two shining souls, both finally free of their earthly pain, linked hands and drifted up out of the prison and into the cosmos as I sat… Continue Reading

I Hid My Devastating Skin Disease Because Of Shame. Here’s Why I’m Speaking Out Now.

In a manner of two weeks I went from being a woman tending to a network of drainage stents much like a Vermonter tending maple syrup taps to… Continue Reading

i’m exhausted from the fear of existing while black

Ibram X Kendi, Ijeoma Oluo, W.E. Dubois, James Baldwin, Alec Baldwin, Tony Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Chinua Achebe, Trevor Noah, Ta Nehisi Coates, ?uestlove, Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus,… Continue Reading

A Damnable Peck

Cormac McCarthy is the best writer has ever lived a true artist I told him and I won’t stand for no of this race class gender analysis of… Continue Reading

Why I’m Glad I Didn’t Find Love Til I Was Over 40

And luckily, our passions and interests overlap. That’s why we met. We’re both obsessed with skin. I cook it and she studies it. She’s actually a dermatological research… Continue Reading