Five Things to Know About Capitalism
“Pull yourself by your bootstraps,” a common phrase meant to inspire self-determination is not only an impossible task when taken...
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Perdita Patrice
- Feb 18, 2021
For the Love of Creativity and Healing
(Jeanette Miller) If you ask me what’s wrong, I can’t tell you just one thing. I would say, it’s this pandemic, the isolation, the deaths...
Perdita Patrice
- Feb 16, 2021
Practicing Intentional Self-Care Led Me to Therapy
In 2019, I realized I needed a little help. After a decade of working non-stop and unraveling the reasons behind some of my life choices,...
Perdita Patrice
- Apr 29, 2019
The Impact of Dying
I have never been impacted by the death of a celebrity. Not Big. Not Bankroll Fresh. Not even Peanut the Don. It didn’t move me. Not...
Perdita Patrice
- Mar 12, 2019
Stories in the Wells
“Bobby* died,” my mother mentioned to me emotionless. She’s always forgetting to tell me someone back home has died. The news usually...
Perdita Patrice
- Feb 21, 2019
(Self)Love as Space
“Be intentional.” “Set your intentions.” “Live your life intentionally.” Acting with intention has become a buzz-action of sorts, if I...
Perdita Patrice
- Nov 27, 2018
Giving, When Giving Is Hard
What I want, nearly more than anything is some justice in the world. I was never into pageants, but a Black girl can dream for world...
Perdita Patrice
- Jul 27, 2018
Loving a Mother Without a Mother
There’s an old photo of me, my mother and my grandmother sitting at a wrought iron table at the old Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans,...
Perdita Patrice
- Jul 15, 2018
Rejecting Sorry, Accepting Self
“What are you sorry for?”, I often ask my girlfriends when I hear them apologizing for things that need no apology. I don’t say this to...
Perdita Patrice
- Feb 14, 2018
Sex, Love and Videotape: Valentine’s Day in the Era of #RelationshipGoals
For better or worse, today is Valentine’s Day. Every February 14, we get a mixed bag of reactions to this holiday that happens rain or...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 18, 2017
Self-Care, Death and War
Gay writes: “Today I was told ‘you excel at everything but taking care of yourself’ so now I am mad about being seen” MHP responds: “This...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 9, 2017
Getting to Fine
The only thing I remember about Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” is the opening line: “It was the best of times, it was the worst...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 5, 2017
Old Scars, New Legacies
Years ago, I began writing a poem about one of the languages my mother spoke. It began, “Pain is my mother’s tongue, but I speak it...
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