Why I will be Invincible in 2018

A week into celebrating the new year and the one-year anniversary of my blog, I have decided I will be invincible as I enter 2018. This...

What It's Like as a Black Girl: Spoken Word Poetry

This past Sunday evening, I had the privilege of being invited to the Emory Black Student Alliance's First Year Dinner to perform some of...

Black Magic Woman: Performing for 1,400+ Emory Students

During this year’s New Student Orientation, I performed alongside five of the most courageous and compassionate souls I’ve met at Emory....

Navigating Freshman Year with Mental Illness

Photo from Emory Dark Arts' Dear Emory Project. TW: the good, bad, and ugliness of illness. When I began college last August, my dorm’s...

Infiltrating a White Supremacy Teach-in

Yesterday morning, I found myself at a white supremacy teach-in. At the time of my spilt-second decision to splurge college...

¿Black? History Month

February is coming to a close, and I wanted to honor Black History Month. But what is Black History Month? What is black history? What...

Marching in the Aftermath of a Trumped America

Returning to campus with less than one week left of the Obama Administration’s term, I am greeted by anti-fascist signs posted along my...

On Why Georgians aren't "Southern"

Last semester, I often received taunts about being too “country” with my Memphis twang and colloquial dialect. People stood astonished...

20 Ways to Avoid Inferiority at a Top 20 University

A satire on some struggles faced by college students at top (over-the-top) universities striving to be the best of the best: How much do...

Blogspiration: What to Expect

Amid musings on lessons learned in my first semester as a Freshman, I have chosen to reflect on ten unexpected, eye-opening experiences...