When I’m invited to deliver a keynote speech, one of my first steps is reading Maya Angelou quotes. I’m not quite sure when that started but it is now very much a part of my current creative process. My reading choices have always been non-fiction and educational texts. Honestly, I was introduced to Maya Angelou’sContinue reading “LORD, GRANT ME THE CONFIDENCE OF A MEDIOCRE WHITE MAN.”
Category Archives: Blackness
Black is the New Boudoir.
It’s time to strip. It’s time to unravel, layer by layer, hundreds of years of institutionalized self-scrutiny, perverse concepts of one’s physical self, and the idea that we as people of color (POC) should strive to maintain our “decency” by way of not celebrating or exposing our bodies. Historically, POC have been hyper-sexualized in mainstream mediaContinue reading “Black is the New Boudoir.”