It Forces Us To Step Up Our Game And Focuses Our Aim — I have been included in an amazing group of writers who call themselves simply Writers and Editors of Color. They do not have a website, but each of them combined (forty-eight and counting), have an interconnected platform of thousands. We follow each other on social media, we support each other’s…

We Learned and Forgot More Than Our Ancestors Would Appreciate, And Now We Need To Remember Old Lessons Hard Won — Every day I sign online and I spend hours looking to see what is happening in the world. I hear about Human Rights being stolen in America, I see murders happening in Europe of Bloggers who are just sharing their voice, and the deaths of hundreds of women at a…

From The Loud Mouth Brown Girl to The Rest of the World, Here’s Some Things To Remember About The Blogger Lifestyle — I didn’t fully prepare myself for the public living part, of being the Loud Mouth Brown Girl. Honestly, I’m surprised that one person cared, but as it turns out WordPress.com informed me the other day that I had been using the platform for a variety of blogs for the last…

I’m Tired Of Telling Trauma Stories For Little Girls Who Don’t Know How To Tell Their Own — Devastation. Heart Break. Soul cracked. Miserable. Sad, depressed, angry, and utterly revolted, are just some of the words that describe how I and millions of women around the world are feeling right now. Roe v. Wade, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, ruled (7–2) that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. In a majority opinion written by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the Court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances…

This is A Shit Way To Live, But For Millions of “Gang Girls,” Everywhere, It’s How We Survive — So I have this reoccurring dream. It’s a dream where I’m being driven by a man I was told years ago, died by shooting himself in the head. Now, I didn’t particularly like this man because he owned a tattoo shop, where I got my first tattoo — a dragon…

They Don’t Talk About Them, And They Promote The Idea of Lazy Journalism — People love to call Canada the country with the “nice,” people. We don’t have super famous white supremacists with massive platforms filled with an audience of millions or more. We don’t covet celebrities the way that our American neighbours do, we keep our secrets to ourselves, and we don’t talk…

This article is inspired by Sanni Lark — I don’t read a lot of articles on medium, because yes I am absolutely lazy. When it comes to consuming words I struggle with the listening part, probably because I spent 24 hours a day listening to the vibrations of chaos in the air. HOWEVER, every once in a while…

After 18 Years of Working with People Who Were Houseless, I Have Some Experiences That Need Vocalization — I worked at a church from the time I was 23 until I was in my mid-thirties, and before that, I volunteered at another church where we served meals every weekend morning, to those who needed the extra food, company, and experience of being around others, while sometimes but not…

Bitch, I Am Not, Have Never Been, and Will Never Be, Jesus — TRIGGER WARNING: This essay may be difficult to consume, so please take a moment before reading, during reading, and after, to check in with yourself and make sure you are okay. So in British Columbia, we have something called the Skytrain, it takes us from one side of the lower mainland to the other, in about 45 minutes. It’s a really great and easy way to travel. And because people are people, there are these officers called SkyTrain Police, and while…