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I guess this is it then

Okay, so I’ve gone to write my next blog post many a time over the past few weeks, but somehow, it always tends towards an essay. So hey,...

Ramona, you’re talking to your mum!

When people meet me and ask what my parents think of my ‘lifestyle choices’, my answer is that they don’t. Because they don’t. (Right,...

A tough act to follow

One thing about adulthood I was not prepared for was understanding my parents. I read this book Small Worlds, a couple of years ago: it’s...

I just think it’s funny how..

There’s this video that was taken in a grocery store: a white woman was pushing her cart, and kept hitting the black man who was pushing...

It was a crime of passion..

Okay so, I’m going to write this really quick, and then I’m going to go bleach my eyebrows. I’ve not posted on here in a few weeks—...

Fear no man..fear no man..fear no evil..

This is how my high school handled strange occurances: one time there was a rumour circulating that three men had been spotted around the...

In the desert with no water

Omg omg omg. It’s been a hot minute. I went on an adventure, and now I’m back. (Not fully back. I find myself tending towards radicalism,...

Oh I love being a woman

So, I had the most validating conversation the other day. A friend and I were telling this lady (we’ll call her Leah) how we didn’t want...

On God.

This one time, I was trying to explain a painting of mine that contained ‘the hand of God’ to a potential employer. She proceeded to ask...

Africans are so lit

There’s a number of books in a Florida county, USA that were banned from public school libraries, Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o being one of...

The adventures of Tata

Some years ago, I went on this school geography trip to Western Uganda on a bus. This is that story. The assignment to a vehicle for...

Y’all niggas got me hot.

I watched an interview of the person that plays Aimee on Sex Education, and she was talking about the bus scene where a man...

Uhm since no one asked, Lesson 2:

Sometime this year, I watched as a neighbour’s 4 yr old kid, at 7:00 am (Jesus!) stepped out to wait for the school van to pick her up....

This is for Issa, and Issa alone

Last night, in an attempt to ‘de-people’, I got into this show, ‘Rap shit’. As a person who had set a 6.30 am alarm while fully coherent,...

Quick question

I know I said quick, however.. During my internship I had this mansplaining colleague that I kind of couldn’t stand. On several...

Adulthood lesson 1:

I put down ‘self-help’ books maybe a year ago. I felt that I’d gotten addicted (I’d download like 5 books every time I was going through...

Motherhood may not be natural.

I promise this is lighthearted.. This morning, I got the feeling that it was a good day to adopt a cat. (I had to take myself to the...

On a serious note,

You know how these past few years more people have publicly backed views such as ‘Slavery was 400 years ago,’ ‘Slavery was a choice,’...

Live, laugh, my jaaja

My only experience with the supernatural involves my grandmother. Here goes; So, when I was little, I was terrified of ghosts. So...

Pandemonium

In apology for being two days late to the party, let me tell you about the girl gang I was a part of in my youth. In S3, we had the...

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