When the pain is too much: A Black woman’s dark night 

Content warning; this post talks about suicide and suicidal ideation A few weeks ago, I found myself in a foreign place psychologically, momentarily feeling truly depressed and hopeless. Depression is not something that I have ever experienced to any major degree—no, my jam has always been anxiety. Anxiety and I met several months after my …

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The truth about truth

chess board in shadowy room (black and white image)

The truth bothers me. It always has. Not because I don’t like it, but because of the implied obligations. The truth will out and the truth will set you free and a million other clichés all express the idea that truth is a sort of unstoppable elemental force that, once revealed, will drive away the …

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