Four Black classics I consider essential reading. From Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon to Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji, these books explore Black identity, masculinity, spirituality, grief, and community in ways that stay with you long after the last page. If you’re building a serious reading life, start... See more
I achieved about 90% of the goals I set for 2025 because I ditched the ✨ aesthetic ✨ vision boards and started making UGLY ones that actually kept me aligned with the actions I needed to take to reach those goals.
Pretty boards don’t work — intentional ones do (and I will die on this... See more
Choosing differently is not about rejecting our mothers. It is about refusing to romanticize their suffering. It is about understanding that many of them did the best they could with limited choice, limited rights, limited economic power, and heavy social expectations.
Anita Damina (I Love My Mother Too Much to Repeat Her Life
the erotic, in its original conception, is not confined to bodies. It is the fire that propels the soul out of dormancy. It is the throb of longing for something more.
But I have lost myself in a million other people. I’m no longer fluent in my own language. I’ve consumed so many dreams that weren’t mine, I don’t recognise the hunger of my own longing.
Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.
To choose an erotic life is not simply to chase pleasure or gratification; that would be to mistake Eros for Hedone. Rather, it is to say “yes” to the kind of friction that transforms. It is the decision to let yourself be undone by what draws you in.