Black women are far more complex than the stereotypes make us out to be.

We come from different backgrounds and skill sets, reflected here along with musings on our lives as Black women. We write about the arts, science, parenting, business, travel and politics – because our professional and personal experiences have made us experts. Think of us as Queer Eye in blog form, but by and for brilliant Black women.

This is a site where we get to be who we really are, in all our magical, messy, vulnerable, individual glory. We write for an audience of other smart, funny, resilient Black women, and welcome any other visitors who know our worth.

Here’s what’s new on the site this week:

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  A Few Thoughts on Setting and Maintaining Boundaries (Oscars edition)
  by Tierra
  March 29, 2022
  At their root, our online conversations about the Oscars slap are arguments over boundaries: who has the right to set and enforce them, and how? The general consensus? Not Black women.
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  Happy World Down Syndrome Day!
  by Tierra
  March 21, 2022
  Having a child with Down syndrome will change your life – for the better.
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  Dr. King at WMU in 1963
  by Tierra
  January 17, 2022
  Tierra takes a break from her annual griping about the white mainstream’s ahistorical embrace of Black moderates to share MLK’s 1963 speech at Western Michigan University.
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  What happens when a wedding bouquet catches you
  by Tierra
  December 31, 2021
  The one about being hit by a wedding bouquet you didn’t want to catch.
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  A Long December
  by Tierra
  December 18, 2021
  It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here. So why did this pile of holiday cards make Tierra cry?