Trying to make a human is a lot like gardening. Especially if you’ve never gardened in your life. Sure, you’ve had the odd houseplant on...

I used to be fearless. My mom says I couldn’t sit still in her lap as a toddler, and was always wandering away into the desert to bathe...

My parents when they moved from the desert to the forest moved into a suburb of the city our country has decided is the center. Suburbs...

A couple of weeks ago I woke up to something I very rarely see - my father’s country’s name in my Instagram feed and in the news....

Dear you, You’re here today. You have been in the background for a while but you got so impatient that I wasn’t really acknowledging you...

I am 6..ish? 6ish. I sit in a play treehouse on the playground, hidden. I am with my childhood best friend. She has chestnut brown hair,...

This morning, I awoke to the first really warm morning in D.C. I played quiet music from my phone as I slowly made my breakfast and...

**content warning: this entry includes the mention of police violence and the murder of a young person** I was once, like many white or...

My partner got me roller skates for Christmas. In the midst of the pandemic, I had been craving learning new, and especially athletic...

We are continually learning, as people, as a culture, that relationships can be harmful and toxic. That bad ones can be so bad for you...

Most of 2020 has been muted. I’ve felt like I’ve been only half conscious for most of the past year and a half. The pandemic has made me...

My skin is tan, which is a combination of brown and white. Some people see it as white and others as brown, which is not how colors work...

I don’t sit in chairs like chairs would like me to Or rather, I don’t sit in chairs how the designer of the chair would like me to My...

I loved college. I loved the feeling college gave me, the freedom it gave me. I loved wandering through an environment entirely built for...

Things I miss, in no particular order: Moderately crowded marketplaces at Christmas and farmer’s markets on sunny weekend mornings...

We are in difficult days. We are in the midst of global pandemic, a racial justice uprising, a divided country, a crucial election, an...

The other night a white friend of mine posted a rant on their instagram story that the term “nonwhite” is racist because it assumes white...

Inspired by the text PLEASURE ACTIVISM by adrienne maree brown (which I highly recommend - It’s been getting me out of bed lately) and...

let it burn let screams that have gone hoarse from fight after fight and death after death and injustice after injustice finally be heard...

The other day a friend of mine who works in a large tech company asked my opinion about something. They recently implemented a policy for...