I know firsthand and broadly what happens when you push a baby out and aren’t ready to deliver the afterbirth. I know that sometimes you just bleed out.

I know firsthand and broadly what happens when you push a baby out and aren’t ready to deliver the afterbirth.

Writing stories as an escape is the most beautiful delusion because the more you practice it, the more authentic it feels. So, when I started writing as myself, for myself— truly, writing stopped being an escape and started to be a torture. Suddenly, the fictional characters I continued to create were experiencing hardships skin-close to home,... See more

The women in my family aren’t big on climbing, they’re big on sitting down and pretending to be small. I come from two lines of racialized women raised on the notion that they don’t matter.