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Respectability Politics Aren’t So Respectable
Some of my thoughts on respectability politics. Please give it a read.
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Easy (Tentative title)
A work in progress. First poem in a long time that I have written outside of the Hollins bubble. Covers part of being a black girl.
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Love Hurts But Not This Much
http://wp.me/p3efI7-3no
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vickers road
jagged vines crack white siding two black doors with single diamond windows rocking on hinges splayed open into hallways windows fallen to ground shattered splintered wooden steps rusted over railings no more mown grass or laundry on clothes wire golden daffodil garden gone green for sale sign leering from the screened-in porch my father says…
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I’m not fine
1. I am not mentally here on a typical day the top row of my teeth get to glisten in the sunlight as I talk about hair and makeup and nails and the little things that don’t really matter while I convince you that this smile is real. It is not. 2. I am angry…
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#blacklivesmatter
#Blacklivesmatter
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Father’s Nightmare or Nah?
My thoughts on a tweet that sparked a walkout
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The Obama Girls and Black Womanhood
Fellow black women, I support you and your daughters.
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On police.
i didn’t know about rubber bullets or how to make makeshift gas masks until ferguson mike brown’s body boiling four and a half hours face down, hands up, and bloody in the middle of the street. justice never required six warning shots into your back there is no such thing as protocol anymore when it…
Ashley Elizabeth 