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who’s a real new yorker?
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.
Kayla Miller
Jun 89 min read
so i quit my first big girl job.
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.
Kayla Miller
May 155 min read
can we afford love?
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.
Kayla Miller
Dec 8, 20257 min read
censorship at the graduation podium
I wasn't allowed to speak at my graduation ceremony.
Kayla Miller
Sep 18, 20259 min read
bushwick day
Bushwick is often left out when Black people shout out Brooklyn neighborhoods. They know Bed-Stuy, Flatbush, Crown Heights, and Canarsie,...
Kayla Miller
Jul 20, 20255 min read
what does it mean to be a girl’s girl?
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.
Kayla Miller
Jul 17, 20257 min read
Black Mothering and Environmental Justice Activism: A Black Ecofeminist Framework
My undergraduate thesis on Black women environmental justice activists!
Kayla Miller
May 26, 20259 min read
life update :,)
Bella, where have the hell have you been loca?! On post-grad, why I hate the club, pilates, and whatever the hell is going on in the world.
Kayla Miller
Mar 31, 202510 min read
drake is a loser. but maybe this is a chance for hip-hop (and good men) to prevail?
Kendrick Lamar's love for hip-hop fueling this rap beef illuminates the future possibilities for love, hip-hop, and men in our society.
Kayla Miller
Feb 16, 20258 min read
don’t believe liars.
We shouldn't believe liars. Thoughts on the state of journalism, pathological liars, and the words of Ta-Nehisi Coates on "the lie".
Kayla Miller
Feb 10, 20256 min read
five years of kmworded.
A letter from me to you, the wordies, on kmworded's fifth birthday.
Kayla Miller
Jan 19, 20254 min read
my week with "undrowned" & alexis pauline gumbs
This unreleased piece from 2023 reflects my anxiety and on lessons learned from Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ critically acclaimed book, Undrowned.
Kayla Miller
Jan 9, 20258 min read
we don’t talk anymore.
On the instagram follow to never speaking again pipeline.
Kayla Miller
Jan 3, 20255 min read
okay so, i met angela davis.
A month ago, I had the honor of presenting Dr. Angela Y. Davis with a climate justice award. You know, just a regular Thursday.
Kayla Miller
Dec 23, 20246 min read
why I'm coming back home after graduation.
So, what can a bougie environmentalist/writer get her hands into in her 20s in New York City? Well friends, I’m excited to find out…
Kayla Miller
Aug 20, 20246 min read
to vote or not to vote--that is the question.
should you vote in the upcoming election? i can’t answer that for you, but i can tell you some observations i’ve made.
Kayla Miller
Jul 27, 202412 min read
he's just not that political.
on hinge, moderates, apoliticals, and what we owe to ourselves and community in romance.
Kayla Miller
Jul 13, 20247 min read
the mourning dove
there’s a bird that comes and sits on the back of my AC and wakes me up with its unforgivable cooing.
Kayla Miller
Jul 7, 20242 min read
men.
i wish i wasn’t so aware of men all the time as i walk down the street. looking around as if i don’t see them, mouthing the words to the...
Kayla Miller
Jun 26, 20241 min read
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