Angela Davis had People on the Mayflower and Twitter is Disgusted
Angela Davis was featured on a recent episode of “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” You’re likely familiar with the show....
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Adam Lynch
- Nov 25, 2022
Classic White Food for Black People, pt. II
If you missed the holiday cooking of outdated white aggression last week, check out part I here. Now we’re back for the second and final...
Adam Lynch
- Nov 18, 2022
Classic White Food for Black People
Being married to a Black woman and working in an office almost exclusively made up of Black women gives me a unique opportunity. This...
Perdita Patrice
- Apr 28, 2022
White Supremacy Doesn’t Stop at the Bedroom Door
Earlier this month, a clip of Angela Yee’s podcast, “Lip Service,” began to circulate on social media. In it, rapper, Maino, talks about...
Perdita Patrice
- Apr 19, 2022
A Quick Way to Add Luxury to Any Bathroom
Photo by Renee Verberne on Unsplash Over the past two years many of us have spent more time exploring our homes and thinking about how we...
Perdita Patrice
- Apr 7, 2022
The Secrets of Playboy or How to Be Foot Soldiers for Patriarchy
Content Warning: This piece discusses rape, sexual assault, physical abuse, and mentions murder and suicide. For the past 10 weeks I...
Perdita Patrice
- Mar 23, 2022
We need to talk about the way we are talking about Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, and stalking
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West | CREDIT: KEVIN MAZUR/GETTY Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are not new to generating headlines. They are...
Perdita Patrice
- Sep 7, 2021
Hoops!
espn.com I’m in my first semester of college – eleven hours away from home – and also a former basketball player and multi-sport athlete....
Perdita Patrice
- Sep 2, 2021
Still Here
Collage by Alexis Hicks Often when September rolls around, I find myself thinking of Earth, Wind and Fire’s ode to the 21st day of the...
Perdita Patrice
- Jul 4, 2021
I Pledge Allegiance
Collage by Alexis Hicks My high school band teacher never really liked me. He’d probably say differently, especially now, but when you...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 29, 2021
Dear John | Come Correct
Dear 2020 and 2021, I’m writing to you in tandem now because for me you are inextricably linked. You both held and hold great hope and...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 29, 2021
Dear John | Calm After the Storm
Dear 2020, We had a rocky start. You were cold and financially unstable. I was always dreading waking up to you. I worked hard to make...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 28, 2021
Dear John | Still Alive
Bare feet on the cliffside wondering how it will all end, the darkness swallows me. Rocks and sticks pierce my skin, as I take another...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 28, 2021
Dear John | We Gone be Alright
It was a pleasure meeting you. You were there through it all. I will never forget how you had big dreams and goals for yourself, the ones...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 28, 2021
Dear John | 2021, What I’ve Learned About Consent
Dear Diary, This month’s wellness theme at The Lighthouse is “consent.” I’ve challenged myself to learn more about this subject and find...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 28, 2021
Dear John | Metaphors and Monsters and Mitch, oh My
I want you to know, 2020, I wrote this letter to you from a hidey-hole somewhere under my mom’s bed because I haven’t stopped crying yet,...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 27, 2021
Dear John | It’s Over, For Real
Dear 2020, This is a break-up letter. I am sure you haven’t gotten one of these in a while. I feel childish and petty writing this,...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 27, 2021
Dear John | What is Love?
Dear 2020, You came in like Christmas morning: chirpy, bubbly and singing. I wanted to marry the sh*t out of you at first sight. January...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 27, 2021
Dear John | Balance and Power
(Josie Portillo) Dear (John) 2020, With Joyful, Optimism and Hopeful Naiveté, our time together began. Yet, in the words of the great...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 27, 2021
Dear John | A Puppy Please?
Dear 2020, It was mostly bad. It was bad, because I couldn’t see my cousins that live in McComb. I was stuck inside the house most of the...
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