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Dia Arden
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Jan 14, 2021

Mimi

Casual black girl alchemy realness… — Note: this is just a worldbuilding, freewriting exercise. It’s a random Sunday night and you’re sitting in a tiny kitchen, shoveling a plate of food into your face. This is Mimi’s kitchen and it’s definitely a working witch’s space. Potted plants hang in coffee cans in the window above the…

Black Girl Magic

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Mimi
Mimi
Black Girl Magic

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Jun 4, 2020

People Who Love Me, Also Love Trump

I keep absorbing blows from people who “mean well” because I’d still rather hurt myself than see them in pain. Here’s a little background. I gained a whole third family- grandparents, aunts and uncles- when my little brother was born. It was 1994, about four years since my parents split…

Self Care

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People Who Love Me, Also Love Trump
People Who Love Me, Also Love Trump
Self Care

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May 31, 2020

I Am An Angry Black Woman

Deal with it, or don’t; I’m giving myself permission to feel everything. I have started this post about six times. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything at all, here. Mostly, because I never know who I’m reaching and I hate speaking into the Void. …

George Floyd

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I Am An Angry Black Woman
I Am An Angry Black Woman
George Floyd

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Jul 30, 2019

A Casual Response To Bullet Holes

Our Unwillingness To Act Costs Children Their Future December 14, 2012 left me truly horrified. A gunman had just massacred twenty children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, before turning the gun on himself. I was working retail at the time and a friend of…

Gun Violence

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A Casual Response To Bullet Holes
A Casual Response To Bullet Holes
Gun Violence

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Jul 17, 2019

The Chocolate Chip In Your Sugar Cookie

Unapologetically Occupying White Dominated Spaces as a Solo Black Woman I’ve decided that- at age thirty-one, I am going to show up in spaces that don’t traditionally include us (women of color)and just stand there. If I offend you by just existing in the same space as you then tough…

Race

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The Chocolate Chip In Your Sugar Cookie
The Chocolate Chip In Your Sugar Cookie
Race

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Jul 13, 2019

A Black Girl’s Guide To The Coming Storm

We Are Running Out Of Time. Now As I write this, New Orleans is flooding- again. Tropical Storm Barry is morphing into Hurricane Barry and, if history repeats itself, this storm will cut a decisive path of destruction through New Orleans- and it hasn’t even made landfall yet. …

Climate Change

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A Black Girl’s Guide To The Coming Storm
A Black Girl’s Guide To The Coming Storm
Climate Change

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Jun 29, 2019

Ghetto Girl, Exiled

Myself in two spaces. I am an uneducated, mentally ill, thirty-one year old black woman with opinions on everything. …

Black Women

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Black Women

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Dia Arden

Dia Arden

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Amateur black feminist. Broke “essential” worker.

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