Sadié Sidney

I've been watching this series on Netflix called 'Grace and Frankie' and I really like it. They mentioned how amazing of a woman Indira Gandhi is and I watched her interviews and became enamoured by her grace and charisma. She's the definition of a strong woman. School is going so well, which I'm really ataken back by. I don't know, I was nervous about starting the semester at a new school. I was so used to school at my community college. I found out my GPA was 3.971 and that made me feel better. All these years I've been in school, I've been trying my absolute best. When I was taking a walk around my neighborhood, I saw these two kids on a scooter. They looked like brother and sister, but I could be misplacing their relationship. It reminded me of Sidney and Nicole... me and my brother. We used to go everywhere together and do everything with one another. I miss that sometimes and it can be a bit hard to move forward without Sidney. It's hard. It...

I'm reading this book by Marita Golden on colorism, featurism, and how racism has destroyed and dismantled the self esteem of black skin. Upon reading the passage in the page shown above, it really triggered a few memories from my childhood. I was considered light skinned growing up, especially in the winter months. Although I was considered light skinned, I wasn't pretty 'enough' because my male peers claimed I had a "big nose and big lips". I was just a kid... They used to tell me I had DSL (which means dick sucking lips). This was mostly a theme during my elementary school years. How an innocent child can still be sexualized is beyond me, but blacks are constantly sexualized without their consent. My dad always used to get on me about "picking up my bottom lip" and I still have struggles with that until this day. It was ROUGH thinking I was beautiful enough and I couldn't wait until I was the legal age to get plastic surgery to reduce their s...

found these beautiful books on self-healing. I still need to finish the 8 books that I have from the library, but I'm excited about the topic.