Living While Black (and the Black History Month Post That Wasn’t)
Lately, I’ve been too busy living Blackness to write about it. The election-insurrection madness, the White Supremacy Show, and a whirl of workplace anti-racism activities have brought a new level of intensity to the Living While Black/Working While Black experience. A few lessons from my own unwritten, unofficial Living While Black/Working While Black Instruction Manual … Continue reading Living While Black (and the Black History Month Post That Wasn’t)
Poem: Balcony, by Stacy Torian
They offered me a seat up top and I took it, not knowing that the only barrier between me and the air would be slats of wood thinner than belts stacked barely as high as a child. I am a fetus, swathed in the fall that has not happened, a melody of tumble and screech … Continue reading Poem: Balcony, by Stacy Torian
I Got the Job, Part 4: How to survive a midlife career change
It’s 2021, and I feel like I just tore my way out of a street fight
Beaten within an inch of my life, I’m running, bruised, and bloody – but I’m still here.
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Poem: Dress Codes
by Stacy Torian
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