Or did I forfeit my feminist title when I left my day job? — I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I never thought I’d be a stay-at-home mom. Yet, here I am. And I made this choice. I wreak of privilege, and I certainly feel some type of way about it, but it’s a fact I must acknowledge. So many other…

Spoiler alert: I don’t have the secret to making a zillion dollars. — A few months ago, I wrote a piece as a reentry to Medium after a short hiatus during which I built a Fiverr business. I learned a lot over that time, mostly about myself and a little about the type of people that seek out freelancers on platforms like Fiverr…

A powerful religious experience was the beginning of the end of my faith. — Trigger warning: this essay contains details about suicide, self-harm, sexual assault, and religious abuse. On the final night of service, the message was on healing. I was at the altar before I even knew it. Sobbing, heaving, crying out, hands raised over my head. I started to sway back and…

I’m tired of not keeping it real. — I thought I could do it. I thought I could accept, even love, my body after baby. I thought I could celebrate the new form my body took after growing and giving life to my new favorite human. I thought I could join the movement. But I can’t. I wish…

My daughter’s first visit to the ER affirmed my belief in my status as a mom. — My daughter will be one in ten days. Yesterday she visited the ER for the first, but certainly not the last, time. She was an early walker. She never crawled- still doesn’t- but at around nine months old she would stomp around the house holding onto my hands. She still…

Here’s what I’ve learned and how it’s going. — I know, you super care a lot about my freelance endeavors. You want to know all about the ins and outs of the work I’ve been doing and what could have possibly been so consuming it prohibited me from keeping up with my Medium presence- what very insignificant Medium presence…

How intersectional feminism is our best bet moving forward — Intersectional feminism might just be the most powerful thing since, well, the patriarchy. If you’ve never heard the term intersectional feminism or you’re not sure what it is, this recent article in Cosmo is a great starting point. If you’re already with me on the 'Fuck the Patriarchy' train, allow…

Let self-rediscovery guide you to authentic living and working in a post-pandemic world. When I was in sixth grade, my language arts teacher asked us to write a story in our journals. I think it was Halloween or something. When the time was up, she asked if anyone wanted to…

What Danielle Evans taught me about my whiteness in The Office of Historical Corrections — “Do they know I’m human yet?” This is the ambient question for characters of color, particularly black women, in Danielle Evans’s The Office of Historical Corrections. Supported by issues like identity, the treatment of black women’s bodies, systemic racism, and white privilege just to name a few, this question guides…