My sister looked at me and said “You don’t seem excited,” with a look of sheer confusion. It was the day before my birthday and a dear friend, who is over 9000 miles away from me, had sent a cake. Minutes before I carried the cake into the house, I had gotten an email about…

  SILENCING VOICES   My dad’s house got burnt down when he was younger because one of my grandpa’s employees left an iron on. Growing up, I heard this story multiple times as well as the instruction to never leave  an iron on “even for one second,” as my mum would say. Two weeks ago, I…

I have been wrestling with my thoughts, trying to figure out what to write about today and how to go about it. Do I come and tell you blatantly that I cannot believe that a woman has just been raped in a church in Nigeria or that a Black man has been intentionally-and this is…

  I was approaching the elevator, on my way to get food, when I heard someone crying in the hallway. That was the second person I had heard crying in two days. I was afraid it was for the same reason and upon getting to the elevator and hearing a part of the discussion she…