Baby, It’s Cold Outside: Winterizing your Skincare Routine
Google Chromecast is a great streaming device (not an endorsement, I’m just saying) because it does cool things, like allow you to...
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Perdita Patrice
- Jan 16, 2018
Under the Dome, Week 2 | Hurry Up and Wait
I don’t know all of you yet, but I love you. You know this because I worked on Martin Luther King Day. It’s a holiday Mississippi only...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 9, 2018
Under the Dome, Week 1 | First Things First
It’s the most wonderful time of the yearrr! … Wait. The holidays are over, and we have entered a new year. If you identify as a...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 3, 2018
The Strong Silent Type
Recently, I read an article by Tim Lockette in the Anniston Star about a “good guy,” H. Brant Ayers, and his youthful (at age 40) mistake...
Perdita Patrice
- Jan 2, 2018
Get With It or Get Lost | Searching for Job Satisfaction in Jackson
I’ve been back in Jackson, Mississippi, for nearly six months, and if I had a dollar for every time someone’s asked me why I moved back...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 26, 2017
Black Christmas or Nah?
In a song he hasn’t released yet, Pyinfamous references the super woke. I mean, I know y’all mean well, but we know meaning well is what...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 26, 2017
Leilani’s Limitless Life Pt. I
Editor’s note: One of the best things about hosting an online platform dedicated to the black girl voice is hearing their voices. When we...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 26, 2017
An Introduction to Kwanzaa
I was 8- or 9-years-old the first time my family and I celebrated Kwanzaa. I vividly remember reading about the holiday in my elementary...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 23, 2017
She Sings | The Winter Holidays
There are sacred Christmas songs and maybe a couple you’ve never heard before, ones that slap, Kwanzaa-inspired jams and a party song 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 15, 2017
12 Great Gifts for the Magic Black Girl in Your Life
Are you a last minute shopper? Bad at gifting? Simply stumped? Draw some inspiration from this list of really nifty gifts, all reasonably...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 12, 2017
Escaping the Box: Teaching While Black
Let me get some important identifiers out of the way: I am a Black, woman educator who makes no qualms about the importance of the...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 11, 2017
Black Girl Perspective | Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
We were inspired. Local DJ, Young Venom, curated a playlist for the Mississippi Museum of Art, and we decided, “Why not curate one for...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 9, 2017
A Love Letter to Black Girlhood: Eve L. Ewing’s “Electric Arches”
One of my favorite poems that race is “the first time [a re-telling].” In this poem, the writer describes her first time experiencing...
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 8, 2017
On Disruptions: The Luxury of Labels
Resisting Rape Culture Conference | MiraCosta College 2017 Her shirt was light-colored, maybe white, but a button-down with a collar for...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 8, 2017
Jackson, “Pro-Life,” And What It Means For Black Women
Last Thursday night, people quietly crowded into theater #9 at Malco Grandview of Madison to see Jackson, the documentary. Jackson shines...
Perdita Patrice
- Dec 6, 2017
Black Genius: A Q&A with Airea D. Matthews
In 1942, writer Margaret Walker’s seminal work, “For My People,” earned her the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. It would be 74 years...
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...
Perdita Patrice
- Nov 20, 2017
for black girls in college who have considered summer school when spring semester isn’t enuf
I remember it being the tail-end of my sophomore year in college, and I’d fallen in tremendous like with a girl and shot my shot, as they...