Like a lot of the Black and Jamaican people I know, I grew up surrounded by family. My cousins lived down the street from me, I learned to cook by watching the women work, we gathered every summer and every holiday. My cousins were my first and best friends. …

I realized something — and like most grand realizations it was an uncomfortable experience, painful actually. I didn’t go looking for this revelation, it popped up and slapped me in the face. There’s no denying the sting and burn of a good slap. I felt it. I still feel it…

In reflecting on themes like spirituality, consent and physical touch, reflecting on my embodiment, on what it means to be embodied felt like the natural next step. Beyond narratives and metaphors of gender and dysphoria however, I’ve been thinking about the literal fact of possessing a body. I’ve been thinking…

If and when I use the word non-binary to describe myself, I need folks to understand how deeply I mean non-binary. No, I’m not a boy or a man or masculine. No I’m not a girl or a woman or feminine. Beyond gender, words are words, and like everything else…

The more I learn and think about gender, the more confused I become. I am still fraught with some of the same questions today, as I was when I first took a gender studies class almost eight years ago. …

I still remember you, I still feel loving you in my whole body. No matter what I do I can’t seem to forget. You still bubble just beneath my skin. You still rumble in my belly. You still dance up from my toes to the top of my head. I…

i burn most every bridge once i’ve crossed and come to realize i can’t go back. sometimes it’s can’t, sometimes it’s won’t. either way some shit has had to get burned. i used to revel in the glory of the flames. used to cross a bridge only with the intention…

Some days my inner child walks around with a torch in each hand ready to burn everything to the ground. Some days my inner child weeps silently to herself in want of affection. Some days she sits hunched over a desk, carefully planning her revenge. Some days she just stares…