Happy April, all! Women's History Month may have passed, but the ritual of honoring, acknowledging, and uplifting our fellow women is...

It's arguable, whether there is a fair season to be a woman of color. We are construed as the strong, impermeable woman. The infallible,...

On February 12, the 59th Annual Grammy Awards took place. With Beyoncé’s pregnancy announcement earlier this month, and her nominations...

Doris Payne (The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne) This bad and boujee 86-year-old is a real-life, world-renowned jewel thief who has...

With the 89th Academy Awards around the corner, Moonlight has been the talk of this award season. Barry Jenkins’ sophomore feature has...

When people ask me if I want to follow my parents into showbiz, I imagine the moment I came home to find my mom in tears over her job. It...

Dear Mom, Every day you wake up, get dressed and go to work. You go to work where you don’t feel safe - as a woman and as a Puerto Rican....

do they see me Mama i wonder why you birthed me into this life destined to live with litany of strife it makes me want to cry bawl out my...

I have never felt so scared to exist Not just in this place But in this body Brown body shaking Brown body breaking Brown body, don’t...

my spirit could not sustain the weight of the night each forecast the hideous heft of a nation’s hatred and abject apathy and so i...

as Trump and the like celebrate and lie, with smiles on their faces, on their white, blood-stained sheets i hope they know they cannot...

How the day should’ve gone: Text my family first thing in the morning, all caps all exclamation points: “WE DID IT!!!!!!!! WE FINALLY...

Tonight America is a cat-caller, lurking in the dark, gaze slanting in my direction, stealing ownership of my body with vicious words....

a moment of prayer for the non yt bodies who are told they are less for the bodies of little girls and grown women who are told their...

I see my country become dotted with Red It bleeds over, state to state It makes my stomach churn Red marks Huge red marks Telling me...