I feel like i am in a zoo.
I am terrified to be here and I have done a poor job of communicating how frightened I am. I am fucking terrified of the world en masse and even more frightened of the way people tire of it so fast. I
Podcast
Musings from my porch in Chicago that ask: am I good at hosting happiness? Am I the right shape to hold onto the life that I want? What noise do I make when I get knocked around?
and Ma'Khia Bryant. to Tyre Nichol and Breonna Taylor. and to Sandra Bland and Dion Johnson and Trayvon Martin and 𝄇
a conversation about survival, archival, and the intimacy found and lost when you grow up in the public eye.
the making of @ismatu.gwendolyn (or, on loving myself enough to want to remember all of this).
A child model turned grad-school stripper talks openly about the reality of being shackled to Beauty and the negotiations a life of Beauty investment necessitates.