As an atheist...well, that statement doesn’t really mean anything honestly. Since I came to the full realization that I don’t believe in...

“Let’s go,” my lady said to me, “tomorrow.” I was taken aback by the immediacy of her words. I had just been tagged for the third time in...

"The list of what I used to be is longer than the list of things I am." - Dessa "Mineshaft" A few days ago, my lady and I were discussing...

Congratulations! You’ve created some of the best arguments for your side imaginable! Even if you didn’t think of every idea yourself, you...

You’ve heard this one, right? Many people, before and during, relationships say that cheating is a deal-breaker that there’s no coming...

(Deandre Jerome Coleman circa 2005) Deandre Jerome Coleman was born on October 26th, 1982 in Huntsville, Alabama. He died April 14th,...

There’s not a person, entity or group that I trust beyond scrutiny. Not anything at all. Not a family member, not a partner, friend, not...

I first became politically aware around 10 or 11 years old. I mean, actually understanding politics at a level slightly above what was...

Recently a friend of mine brought up an unfortunate recurring event in her personal life. She noticed that a certain subset of her...

Last year I wrote a piece called, “Y’all Really Hate Black Women, Don’t You?” At the time it related to Halle Bailey being cast in the live-action Little Mermaid movie and then spread out into other times where Black women had a chance to shine and (mostly) racists got mad about it. This time around, I got pulled into this position due to the infamous death of Kobe Bryant and the journalistic integrity of Gayle King. I honestly wasn’t going to jump too far into the conversati

(The Oppression Olympics is my look into people wanting to compete over who has it worse in a zero-sum game.) I’m making this one really...

I had been planning to write about my experiences with ulcerative colitis for about a year. Last year was the 5th anniversary of my...

The last week of 2013 was the worst time leading up to the best. I just had to get there first. By this time, I had worked a little over...

If you’ve been keeping up this far, you can tell that this was a big deal for me being diagnosed with this disease and obviously it was...

For transparency's sake, there was a long blog I wrote to go along with this but while stumbling over files on my computer, I came across...

January 13, 2014: Post-surgery, I woke up in my hospital room not feeling too different but knowing something was different. I was tired...

Okay, that may or may not have been a sensational headline but there’s a reason for it. I feel like suicide prevention is something...

What is with the hatred of Black women across the board? I feel like I should be able to type that sentence and have a lot of people give...

I feel like a lot of the problems with America right now stem from people seeing July 4th as the foundation and start of this country and...

I watched Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on Sunday and his And Now… segment focused on newscasters saying how much they want to not...