Shay 
Despite the last decade being the era of Black Lives Matter, the reality is that Black pain and death have become normalized to the point of almost being entertainment, thanks to social media. How often have we scrolled past videos of Black people being killed by law enforcement or vigilante white people? How often have …
Last year, when I met a man almost 11 years younger than me—whom I fell in love with—I took to joking that our relationship was my “midlife crisis.” After all, it fit the stereotype of a divorced middle-aged woman—just one of those “cougars.” I would later realize that he was definitely not my midlife crisis. …
In recent years, thanks to social media and the political climate in America, we have created an image of Black women as saviors—Black women who stand up for democracy and save us from our worst selves. Women like Stacy Abrams and many other organizers throughout the South stand out as one of the most recent …