An anti-racist midlife crisis

Extreme closeup of a car dashboard, showing an illuminated "check engine" light

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. …

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Claiming my own humanity

Side-view of a Black woman in glasses with long straight hair looking off into the distance to the left of the screen, with the ocean behind her in the background

Over the years, as my writing has become almost entirely focused on whiteness and white people, I accidentally have moved further away from the very reason why this blog was created: To claim my own humanity while living in a very white state—and not lose my very essence as a Black woman.  While I have …

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