LIFE/RACE I love all of this beautiful talk about intersectionality I’ve been hearing since the Women’s March. People I’ve never heard talk about it before are talking about it now. This is so great. And also a little bit infuriating. Here’s why: Just so that we’re...
Photo by Aaron Taylor LIFE Last night, I couldn’t fall asleep until I pulled the covers back and off of my body. Can I just say, I am alarmed by how warm it is in New York City in mid-January. It feels good, sure, to wear my coat open, but my temporary comfort has a...
LIFE As I walk across Columbia’s campus—hungry—hanging up a phone call with an actor, contemplating the offer of yet another part-time job awaiting reply in my inbox, carrying a peppermint tea that went cold after I put it down to “do a little bit of work” three hours...
LIFE I have to be honest and say that I have yet to process the breadth, scope and meaning of the upcoming US presidential inauguration. I do not know how to anticipate its energetic effects on the country and the way that it will consequently reverberate through my...
ART/STYLE There should be more black female architects and urban planners because our experience leads us to think about space so differently than most other humans. Other humans tend to think less about black women’s space than they do about everyone...
