Body positivity

I’m turning 29 In a little over a month and I’ve finally put on weight which I’ve been trying to do for years but now I’ve achieved it. I’m up from my usual 9 and a half stone to just over 10 stone as im pear shaped it’s gone to my hips and but and…

Black mans love

If I was to explain my love for the black man what would I say, It’s the finesse in which he speaks to me in his stolen language wrapping his love around his tongue eloquently His touch golden I feel my,emotions are frozen,He awakens my senses, tense passion surrounds us, he breathed new life into…

Natural hair segregation 

Natural hair segregation is running rampant in the natural community let’s not talk on how darker skinned women with tight coils in their head aren’t attractive. Natural hair companies and those who ad placements are neglecting we who don’t fit their main target audience.  So you mean to tell me you want to brag about…

Once, twice three times a maybe?!

Taking your ex back is like pinching yourself on the arm to see whether you’re still awake it just causes unnecessary pain…….. I have a bad habit of running back to my ex I don’t know the hold he has over me, maybe it’s his voice or his touch or his sweet kisses. Or maybe…

Love lessons

My heart was broken but the journey to find me is not over…., I wish I could say I was an expert on love but I’m not I don’t know everything about love, being in love or most importantly loving myself. They say how can you hope to love another if you can not love…

Natural hair lessons

One thing I’m learning as I progress on my natural hair journey, which is almost four years deep. Is my hair does not like braids or kinky twists aka any fake hair entwined in mine my scalp rejects it. Its so hard to take care of natural hair in this cold weather. So I try…

Black British artists are undervalued!!

Yesterday I was scrolling through my instagram feed, when I came across  something that stopped me in my tracks Laura mvula posted a vid of her playing a piano and stares in the caption she had been dropped from her record label. I was in shock why is it the most talented artists always get…

Black women and body image

My body is slim, skinny but my mind is big…. As you can tell I’m not exactly the biggest woman from as far back as I can recall I’ve always been the slim black girl. I do fit into the stereotype that a black woman is fuller figured with a round derrière, hips thighs and…

Black girl chronicles part 11

Why I dislike train journeys There is always one idiotic white person who travels on the train whose mission in life is to disrupt you from travelling comfortably. Take for example yesterday  I was heading to university, I got on the train there was a seat next to white man so of course I politely…

You speak like a whaaaaa!!!

Who came up with this fallacy of speaking like a white girl like who I’m not saying this is my recent experience but I want to have an open debate about it?! It seems to me that when we talk on the idea that black women have to speak a certain way in order to…