How did us joking about green metrocards and regents exams turn into us spewing nationalist and xenophobic rhetoric? Instead of championing that our neighborhoods have the right to evolve while still remaining affordable, we’ve spent our time policing one another and clinging to colonial understandings of identity, borders, and origin. We need to discuss the displacement happening across NYC, but let’s get clear on what we’re trying to say.

Post-grad has been one of the most confusing, challenging, difficult, and boring times of my life. But simultaneously, it has been elucidating, entertaining, and serendipitous. With this understood, did I make the right decision leaving my well paying job in the middle of the shittiest job market we’ve ever seen? Yes.

Money and dating has been the topic of the decade. From 50-50 talks, to talks about who should pay the rent, to hip-hop songs like Latto’s “Brokey”, I notice that in a time where funds are the tightest, we might just be the most materialistic.

I wasn't allowed to speak at my graduation ceremony.

Bushwick is often left out when Black people shout out Brooklyn neighborhoods. They know Bed-Stuy, Flatbush, Crown Heights, and Canarsie,...

If anyone ever calls me a girl’s girl, I will take it as an insult because clearly you are calling me stupid. A girl’s girl is a woman who puts the needs of other women before her own. She’s quick to share a pad in the bathroom, or let you know when you have a hair out of place, or choose your friendship over a relationship with a man. As showcased throughout season seven of LIUSA, the weight of this expectation falls heaviest on the shoulders of Black women.

My undergraduate thesis on Black women environmental justice activists!