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Beauty hoarder's dream come true! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504671466352-X2XP1NLVU9AL7SSEW34S/IMG_5293.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Hue Noir Hue Noir matches the foundation shade to my skin, not match my skin to the foundation shade. Subtle difference, but such difference is quite big. Hue Noir prides itself in making their products available to multicultural women of color. IBE labels Hue Noir as Green beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504743360521-FK45IQA81I5AUMGV0NK1/IMG_5296.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Botanic Farm K-Beauty, made with natural ingredients. Ginseng is one of the healthiest foods out there, imagine what it can do for your skin! IBE labels Botanic Farm as both Clean and Green beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504743610893-A9EXUF4SYDAPGIIEZLPE/IMG_5334.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Lauren B Beauty Nail polish removing wipe; vegan-friendly nail polish (left: Paparazzi, right: Champagne Toast). IBE labels Lauren B Beauty as both Clean and Green beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504743783792-IUQ8ESCTE767I7ZVN1V4/IMG_5339.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Visha Skin Care I received the plant-based eye cream as a sample last year and it has done wonders for me. Loved that I was able to get more samples again this year. IBE labels Visha Skincare as Clean beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504743993940-W4EGVDV4HPQDTWDHHV7U/IMG_5395.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Flora*py I love the mask, and last year I received the same but with rose fragrance. While the effectiveness of the mask is my favorite, I am not a fan of patchouli... IBE labels Flora*py as Green beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504671575031-2CBDR0FH5JFBNFMGXI0H/IMG_5404.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Josephine Cosmetics The L’œil Définite - The Eye Define eyeliner from Josephine Cosmetics. Highly pigmented, liquid eyeliner, and it's smudge resistant. Perfect eyeliner to draw out the wings. Looking forward to exploring this chic, organic color make-up brand. IBE labels Josephine Cosmetics as Clean and Green beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504744626387-KCDKATQ2587SI95R5MK4/IMG_5410.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Swiss Smile Beauty Not going to sugarcoat it, I'm not entirely show why this is part of the goodies. But I am enjoying the finishing touches with Swarovski on the brushes. Also, toothpaste supposedly contains diamond particles. #bougie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504671599549-KWYHKC7ZCVK6H90G8XVW/IMG_5418.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Hue Noir Highly pigmented lipstick from Hue Noir. Top swatch is the single swipe. Bottom swatch is after 3 swipes. Very hydrating as well. Shade is 953 Brick House Rules. Cruelty free and Made in USA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504745134920-DXNQVCWPUXOOLLNVNN0M/IMG_5430.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Patchology Packaging can be wasteful, I'll admit. IBE does not label it as either clean or green beauty. Nevertheless, it makes my favorite list as I need whatever I can get for my dark circles and puffiness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504671642515-QXI3MAYHETV4GUI65JOD/IMG_5432.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - dpHUE ACV is a beauty trend these days. A bit afraid as to how it'll smell like on my hair. Currently in my shower booth waiting to be used. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504671658127-CANJVDZ4XVHBYGGPYWTD/IMG_5433.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - C & Co One of the bottles was not screwed tight enough :( But I loved the scent and the cute packaging. IBE labels C & Co as both Clean and Green beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504745904623-MAUN69MK5SYAMIOAR2OJ/IMG_5435.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Villa of the Mysteries Perfume Brooklyn, NY based perfumery that sources locally using organic and natural ingredients for its products. Scents are not "lightweight", at the same time, it's also not overpowering. IBE labels Villa of the Mysteries Perfume as both Clean and Green beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504671691139-5EBCHUPQMHL3D3OME82R/IMG_5441.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - 2nd Ground Brooklyn, NY based soap made from upcycled espresso grounds. For coffee addicts, if drinking coffee is not enough to satisfy your needs, this is it. I am pretty territorial and overly possessive of this particular product. IBE labels 2nd Ground a both Clean and Green beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504671719388-R7C5P86V4PKECVEC0KPR/IMG_5477.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Gloss Naturals Lovely candy apple red.; two coats applied. Shade is Kangaroo Paw, named after a plant. Nontoxic, vegan, and cruelty free. IBE labels Gloss Naturals as both Clean and Green beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504671729935-5YJ685CNQBUYBUI3VRY5/IMG_5490.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Kosmatology Foaming handsoaps that are probably much better for your skin than the Bath and Body Works products (I, too, was once shamelessly hoarding their soaps). Soaps are blend of natural and organic essential oils. My favorites are these two because #mint. IBE labels Kosmatology as both Clean and Green beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504671747466-E204OFDRLIICDW5IBEOC/IMG_5492.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Source Vital Mint-based products? TAKE MY MONEY. Made with natural ingredients, no synthetics. 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Tranquil Aromatherapy Inhaler works well to help calm down from sudden stress and anxiety. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1504746264237-WM8HJ9ERY1DEY1BG0ZFS/IMG_5467.JPG Natural Beauty - Beauty Enthusiast’s Heaven: Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2017 - Flora 1761 Please excuse my messy cuticles. I was skeptic at first, thinking that the coat would not go on evenly. Surprisingly, it did. Shade is Laelia Orchid 424. This is just a single coat. It is vegan, cruelty free and Made in USA. 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I’m the founder of Mental Health Tings! My name is Kiana; I’m a 28 year old writer living between Fayetteville, Georgia and New York City (for now). I’m passionate about Jesus, and people. I’ve been living with a dual diagnoses of Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar 2 Disorder for four years now and am finally getting the hang of managing my symptoms. When I’m not writing I can be found singing show tunes at the top of my lungs. 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Chronicling and preserving the achievements and contributions of ancestors Harriet Tubman, Billie Holiday, Maya Angelou, and others, februaries, a museum constructed of poignant poems diverse in form, reminds readers: Black History is American History, and it should be "celebrated, appreciated, and narrated" well beyond the annual 28-day observance. Inspired by the literary tradition established by an assembly of living legends from the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, such as Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin and E. Ethelbert Miller, Evans, a fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.) and English teacher, revisits significant and complicated moments from America's past to spark necessary and challenging conversations about the future of humanity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/8e1dd863-9c0e-4e9b-805b-a4eebcca34f5/Lachi+-+Sarvat+Hasin+Spotlight+%282%29.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women’s HerStory Month & Beyond: Book Releases for Your Reading List - The Grace of Black Mothers by Martheaus Perkins Carried within Martheaus Perkins' The Grace of Black Mothers are the many howls of lost children and their martyrized mothers. This debut collection brings a lyrical reckoning on behalf of dismembered dreams by boldly finding grace through our Black mothers, aunties, and grannies. The work invites the reader into a yard where "whisper-thin soul-jazz drips over America" to flip through a Nile-long family album. Mamie Till-Mobley, Sybrina Fulton, Harriet Tubman, and the author's own mothers guide us as we "wander streets like cartographers of poverty" and hold our "promises to come home." Perkins shows his craft by shapeshifting through fighting game menus, optometry charts, screenplays, pirate codes, social media threads, and forms that embody dreams themselves. The Grace of Black Mothers is a collection drenched in complexity and nuance: homemade heroes and villains, justice and fabrication, wit and risk, resurrection and erasure. Get a Copy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/53fb747e-c9cc-4093-80de-81e0482d5b5f/Lachi+-+Jamilah+Lemieux+Spotlight+%284%29.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women’s HerStory Month & Beyond: Book Releases for Your Reading List - I Identify as Blind by Lachi With style and straight talk, musician and changemaker Lachi flips disability and neurodivergence into an empowering identity, a cultural movement, and an innovation engine What if the most taboo parts of our identity—the parts we’re taught to mask—are exactly the ones that hold our greatest power? Lachi is an award-winning singer and leader who awakens the world to this truth: Disability has long shaped our culture and is an identity worth brazenly reclaiming. In this book, Lachi reveals why dropping the stigma is the ultimate glow-up, and inspires readers to celebrate the boldest parts of themselves. I Identify as Blind pulses with energy. Through magnetic storytelling and pop-culture deep dives, Lachi challenges mainstream views on disability and neurodivergence with humor and heart. Because visionaries with disabilities have always driven progress. The book features trailblazing figures like Senator Tammy Duckworth, Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte, Microsoft executive Jenny Lay-Flurrie, and so many more. Lachi even takes readers behind the scenes at Coldplay concerts, since after Chris Martin developed tinnitus, he transformed his concerts into some of the most accessible in the world. Each story reframes disability not as a deficit but as a wellspring of collective strength. And inventions created for people with disabilities benefit everyone—from audiobooks to curb cuts to the internet. (Vint Cerf helped develop the first commercial email service, because he had trouble communicating by phone.) With punchy humor and radical honesty, Lachi dismantles stereotypes and builds a new narrative of Disability identity. I Identify as Blind is just what the world needs right now: an invitation to a cultural movement that celebrates disabilities as a source of power and pride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/e75d6889-da35-4963-b45e-3af1f5f3c5b1/Lachi+-+Jamilah+Lemieux+Spotlight+%283%29.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women’s HerStory Month & Beyond: Book Releases for Your Reading List - Single. Black. Mother. by Jamilah Lemieux A personal meditation on, examination of, and tribute to Black single motherhood, unapologetically told through poignant essays and candid interviews by a celebrated cultural critic “Jamilah Lemieux is one of the most important feminist writers of the twenty-first century.”—Brittney Cooper With her signature candid, humorous, and sometimes biting takes, Jamilah Lemieux suffers no fools while also courageously revealing the scars of her own parenting journey and search for self-acceptance in a world that hates “baby mamas.” With a particular verve and relatability—honed in her many years among Black Twitter’s most prominent voices—Lemieux centers the complex reality of Black single motherhood: uncertainty and fierceness alike. Black. Single. Mother. combines riveting personal essays, infused with whip-smart cultural and historical analysis, with twenty-one intimate first-person testimonies from a spectrum of Black single mothers. A long-overdue offering in celebration of the American matriarch most often maligned, Black. Single. Mother. sets out to inspire a new cultural and community dialogue about this powerful figure as one profoundly deserving of love, support, and respect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/fdf469f4-a420-4a29-85d0-9da9b4a63348/Lachi+-+Tayari+Jones++Spotlight.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women’s HerStory Month & Beyond: Book Releases for Your Reading List - Kin by Tayari Jones A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy. “Tayari Jones’s storytelling washed over me like a trip back home. . . . Kin is a masterpiece of a novel that will live with you long after you turn the last page.” —Oprah Winfrey Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration, and inequality. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life. A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/64a31aa6-456f-4b3f-b0b7-bf20cc0db778/Octavia+Butler+march+picks.png Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women’s HerStory Month & Beyond: Book Releases for Your Reading List - Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler From a celebrated author, the thrilling sequel to The Parable of the Sower--a cautionary novel ahead of its time, perfect for fans of The Broken Earth trilogy. In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction and ruin of everything she knew. Her peaceful community based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed, provides refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative president. Under his rule, Lauren's colony--a minority religious faction led by a young Black woman--becomes a target for the president's reign of terror and oppression. Years later, Asha Vere reads the journals of a mother she never knew. As she searches for answers, she struggles to reconcile with the legacy of a mother caught between her duty to her chosen family and her calling to lead humankind into a better future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/8302c41b-4552-4d5a-a287-6aa11bc7bea1/Lachi+-+Terah+Shelton+Harris+Spotlight.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women’s HerStory Month & Beyond: Book Releases for Your Reading List - Where the Wildflowers Grow by Terah Shelton Harris From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living. Leigh is the last of the Wildes. She knows this because she watched them all die. Grief never truly fades and even as the tragedy haunts her, Leigh carries on, because survival is in her blood. So, when the transport bus taking her to prison careens off the road, killing everyone onboard except her, she does what's in her nature. She survives. While searching for a place to hide, Leigh stumbles upon an unexpected sanctuary: a flower farm in rural Alabama tucked away from the world. What Leigh doesn't expect is the found family there who have built something from the wreckage of their own lives. Especially Jackson, the farm's owner, who sees through Leigh's defenses, offers her small moments of tenderness, encourages her to face her own tragedies. Slowly, Leigh finds peace with the hard pace and soft nature of the farm, taking comfort in the life blooming around her. Maybe she's not beyond redemption, not too broken for something good. And maybe, just maybe, Leigh starts to heal. But the past isn't so easily buried. No matter how far she runs, the truth of who she is and the ghosts of the Wildes follow. And when those secrets catch up to her, threatening everything she's come to love, Leigh will have to truly face what she can survive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/25f0a52d-a41a-4d26-b630-a3ddd12ced32/Lachi+-+Terah+Shelton+Harris+Spotlight+%282%29.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women’s HerStory Month & Beyond: Book Releases for Your Reading List - Rewilding the Nervous System An Ancient Story; An Enchanted Memoir by Justice Reign Torrence Unknowingly bitten by a deadly arachnid, Justice Reign suffers for several years and is thrust into a dark place. Upon repeated failed and troubling hospital visits, she embarks on a journey of self-learning and self-healing. Except, all does not go as planned. One health crisis lands Justice in the Intensive Care Unit. After being discharged from the hospital, Justice's health further deteriorates at home. One man, a resident doctor, saves her life by acting on a hunch. Justice receives the proper medicine. But the damaging effects of a seven year long untreated disease wreaked havoc on her body, particularly her spine and nervous system. Still unable to live a normal life, Justice steadily immerses herself in knowledge and awakens her healing forces within as she returns to the natural ways - the ancient ways of living and healing. She emerges from that dark place as a sage, a healer, a storyteller. "Rewilding the Nervous System: An Ancient Story; An Enchanted Memoir," is a lettered symphonic symphony. This memoir - a testimony - is about resilience, perseverance and rebirth; and it greatly inspires us all to give our nervous system top priority, take immense responsibility for our own health, and rewild ourselves for all-around wellbeing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/20460780-3329-4ebb-acab-e37ef37a8344/Lachi+-+Sarvat+Hasin+Spotlight+%283%29.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women’s HerStory Month & Beyond: Book Releases for Your Reading List - Spoken Black Girl Issue 5 Motherhood Spoken Black Girl Issue 5 delves into the profound and often overlooked topic of Black Motherhood, presenting insightful viewpoints on the maternal mortality crisis and the formidable challenges that Black mothers encounter. 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Grace Finds Peace by Adrienne Prather “This book is about a little girl named Grace who desperately misses being with her dad and spending time with him, due to situations beyond her control. So, after talking and opening up to her mother, Grace begins to express her feelings and find some sense of peace.” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1631283192149-PFT227O1HWQ1BCFLT9V3/Sad+Black+and+Fat+Cover.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 2. Sad, Black, and Fat by Tangela Williams-Spann “This book delves into the experiences of a young woman trying to navigate life’s twists and turns. She often finds herself standing on the corner between one identity and the other trying to decide which road to take. This collection of poems and essays are a reflection of the joys and sorrows of traversing through the intersections of life.” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/da95b857-d5af-45be-8de3-26578b90fa80/picking+up+breadcrumbs.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 3. Picking Up Breadcrumbs by Ursula Hughes “All her life, Darby Coleman-Shields has felt like an outsider in her family. Her parents have often sided with her two older sisters, especially the erratic Maxine. Now Darby has her own family-Quentin, her attentive, devoted husband, and Robbie, her sweet, sensitive eight-year-old son. But when Robbie makes the stunning revelation that Papa George, Darby's own father, has molested him, her world is forever shattered.” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1631283225770-EZDW6J59U85Q6L37UULD/working+twice+as+hard.jpeg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 4. Working Twice as Hard by Quinisha Jackson-Wright “Author Quinisha Jackson-Wright reveals the harsh truths about entrepreneurship, like shaky income, loneliness, and nightmare clients. Working Twice as Hard is a no-holds-barred guide for Black women who want to know the good, bad, and ugly of entrepreneurship. You’ll read stories from other Black women business owners about: healing from the wounds of a toxic work culture, the task of building a solid support system, ongoing pressure to be a ‘Strong Black Woman,’ & setting your own pace in the fast-moving digital era” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/055fdc89-6c61-4415-89ec-894763bcb12e/concentrate+cover.jpeg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 5. Concentrate by Courtney Faye Taylor “In her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins―a fifteen-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shop owner, Soon Ja Du, after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of orange juice. Harlins’s murder and the following trial, which resulted in no prison time for Du, were inciting incidents of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, and came to exemplify the long-fraught relationship between Black and Asian American communities in the United States. Through a collage-like approach to collective history and storytelling, Taylor’s poems present a profound look into the insidious points at which violence originates against―and between―women of color.” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/14eb8b91-687a-4935-bc7d-03abd9385536/black+women+black+love+Dianne+M.+Stewart+cover.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 6. Black Women, Black Love by Dianne M. Stewart “Prodigiously researched and deeply felt, Black Women, Black Love reveals how white supremacy has systematically broken the heart of Black America, and it proposes strategies for dismantling the structural forces that have plagued Black love and marriage for centuries.” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/c508e0d2-e8e7-40cc-b3f7-511ced3a05be/no+sweet+without+brine+cynthia+manick.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 7. No Sweet Without Brine by Cynthia Manick “Cynthia Manick’s latest is a playlist of everyday life, introverted thoughts, familial bonds, and social commentary. In piercing language, she traces the circle of life for a narrator who dares to exist between youthful remembrances and adulthood realities. Each poem in No Sweet Without Brine is a reminder that a hint of sorrow makes the celebration and recognition of the glory of Blackness in all ways, and through all people, that much sweeter.” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/8890a8d8-758f-46fe-bda3-f5a5266d8c33/the+build+up+cover+TR.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 8. The Build Up by Tati Richardson “Though neither of them is looking for love, once their creative juices get flowing, Ari and Porter’s connection is obvious. But when their shared goal has always been winning at work, building a solid foundation for a relationship might end up costing them everything…” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/d7cc4de4-5774-4a91-a0cf-0d367173cbd7/kick+cramps+ass+Brittany+Walker.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 9. Kick Cramp’s Ass by Brittany Walker “To all our women out there, who else is tired of the shit that menstruation puts us through?! Excruciating cramps, heavy bleeding, uterine health conditions, and PMS symptoms present themselves throughout our lives. Month after month of no symptoms with jaunty days would be too much like perfect or an unattainable dream. Manifest thoroughly enough and you shall receive! We are here to serve you with a formula that may decrease or eliminate your menstrual cramps if followed precisely. Let New Nation Goddess demonstrate how to Kick Cramp’s Ass!” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/250d8f06-1c2a-4a73-80a7-25f2be7be00f/soul+PWR+Kamaria+Delaney.jpeg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 10. Soul PWR by Kamaria Delaney “A unique collection of poems written by Kamaria Delaney, better known as KĀMA, the Poet. “ "Soul PWR gave me everything I wanted and never knew I needed! Talk about empowerment and affirmation! Soul PWR fed my mind, body and most definitely my Soul! I Am is one of my favorite poems. A natural pick me up! Everyday, especially the bad days I turn to I Am and I read it aloud for reassurance and manifestation purposes.” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/eeb1e58a-a4bd-416d-8bcc-df18cec18fff/Stethoscope+dreams+Dr.+Wendy+G+M.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 11. Stethoscope Dreams: How I Was Formed by Dr. Wendy Goodall McDonald illustrated by Nai Saechao “Stethoscope Dreams: How I Was Formed, is an introduction to human anatomy. Journie loves to teach her little brother about all of their parts, from skin and hair to the digestive system and even the reproductive organs. All organ systems are introduced without leaving any secrets. Children who learn about their bodies at a young age develop confidence and understanding that can help them want to keep their bodies healthy and want to learn more about health sciences.” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/cc6e2c04-5127-4036-bb2a-26b7f0be23e0/black+women+will+save+the+world+april+ryan.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 12. Black Women Will Save the World by April Ryan “In this long-overdue celebration of Black women’s resilience and unheralded strength, the revered, trailblazing White House correspondent reflects on “The Year That Changed Everything”—2020—and African-American women’s unprecedented role in upholding democracy.” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1572e3e7-b215-4ca6-aed5-c34434ec3705/vivid+jana+jones.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 13. Vivid by Jana Jones “A call from a Baltimore reporter catapults a mother down memory lane in an unconventional coming-of-age story that poses the question: Who are you when your back is against the wall? Inspired by actual events, Vivid is a story that spans time and space while illustrating how interconnected our journeys are and how it is never too late to become your own champion.” Get your copy here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/0f90131d-2e0d-43cb-b3fd-a3000559fdcf/Departure+Story.jpg Book Reviews & Author Spotlights - Women's History Month Reading List 2023 - 14. Departure Story by Rowana M. Abbensetts - Dobson “Love knows no borders and comes in the most unexpected packages. Celestine Samuels is making the biggest trip of her life, from Guyana to the United States for college. At first, she is relieved to get away from her primadonna sister, neglectful mother, and troublemaker brother and eager to embrace the new freedoms of the United States like Starbucks, bagels, and wild college parties. Reality sets in when she gets the news that her aunt and Uncle in Guyana have been shot in an act of political violence. 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Feeding her creative energies and making space during motherhood and in her professional life has been a challenging pleasure. IG: @michelle.p.art https://www.spokenblackgirl.com/freedom-poetry-1/2023/1/9/sunday-morning-sweetwater-by-doriana-diaz monthly 0.5 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/7a76d7c2-0eb2-4796-8c1b-7c91d0e9a9d4/brandy-kennedy-7P1mau71kJA-unsplash.jpg Freedom Poetry - ​​sunday morning sweetwater - Make it stand out Source: Brandy Kennedy via Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/7f8fb2c7-8d50-4f8b-b75d-927a36904eb5/Doriana+Diaz.png Freedom Poetry - ​​sunday morning sweetwater - Doriana Diaz Doriana Diaz is a storyteller, shapeshifter, and sensitive spirit rooted in Philadelphia's soulful rhythms. She believes our art is our inheritance. It is a form of one's souls’ communication; a remembering, a delicate pouring of transcendent libations that shall move beyond time. Her artistry focuses on the exploration of cultural agency, archival documentation,and rhythms of resistance and expansion. IG: @bydorianadiaz https://www.spokenblackgirl.com/freedom-poetry-1/2023/1/9/the-intruder-by-crystal-foretia monthly 0.5 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/92ae0bb1-10f2-46e9-aa48-dccbedb8918d/A+visit+from+the+old+mistress.jpeg Freedom Poetry - The Intruder - Make it stand out A Visit from the Old Mistress (1876), Winslow Homer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/10c4e3f0-3423-4acd-8eaf-6e6e25bdb33b/11.png Freedom Poetry - The Intruder - Crystal Foretia My name is Crystal Foretia (she, her, hers) and I am a senior at Columbia University majoring in Political Science and History. Born and raised just outside of D.C., I am the daughter of Cameroonian immigrants. My identity as a first-generation African-American informs my passions for comparative politics and the history of the African diaspora. My poetry draws extensively on Black history, Afro-centric art, and personal experience to comment on our present moment. My work can be found in Quarto Magazine, Surgam Magazine, That Which Remains, and Changing Wxman Collective, among other places. 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Her writing has appeared in Good Faith Media, Spoken Black Girl Magazine, Good Life Detroit, Beautifully Said Magazine, The Baltimore Times, and on the Pray with our Feet website where she regularly blogs and shares devotionals on spiritual life. Emelda has also blogged for women-led organizations: Breaking the Silence...Healing the Pain and Modestine Tea. 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She had self-published a collection of poetry in 2018 called: Fight, Survive and Thrive. She had published some of her poems in Feminessay, Wingless Dreamer, Spoken Black Girl blog, A Plate of the Pandemic, Alternative Field and PoetraeBooks: Roar Series. She’s currently a fellow with Anaphora Literary Arts. Instagram: @ycatsav https://www.spokenblackgirl.com/freedom-poetry-1/2023/1/19/a-letter-to-maya-by-kamaria-delaney monthly 0.5 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/0c37a31d-1d66-4262-a306-381dacb6eafd/celebrating_maya_angelou-2.png Freedom Poetry - A Letter to Maya - Make it stand out Photo Credit: PBS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1673801189091-CXP5JGBQWV6MY3F77GLA/7.png Freedom Poetry - A Letter to Maya - Kamaria Delaney Kamaria Delaney is the author of ‘Soul PWR: A Poetry Anthology.’ Her collection of poems aims to encourage readers to amplify their voices and tell their story. Kamaria’s poetry has been published in anthologies such as the 24th Annual Poetry Ink (2020) and Philadelphia Says: Black Lives Matter (2020). Writing has always been her passion and throughout her journey, she has learned to “never be afraid to soar, for there is freedom in the leap.” She is also the creator of Jump and Journey, a travel blog created to inspire others to travel and boost their mental health. You can learn more about Kamaria on her website www.soulpwr.org or by visiting www.jumpandjourney.com to read about her latest travels. 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She is an educator whose background is in English Literature and who also pursued a clinical social work degree. She actively integrates antiracist and relational clinical social work into all aspects of the educational environment. She spends most of her time working with high school students and graduate students, but has recently created a fellowship program, Prolific Shifts, to serve Black educators and leaders in personal and professional growth and development within a collective/cohort community. 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I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, teaching even longer. @Resonate_With_Ra https://www.spokenblackgirl.com/freedom-poetry-1/2023/1/20/freedom-to-be-by-brittany-walker monthly 0.5 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/6595e3eb-223a-4eaa-8d9b-f82efcd183c3/jackson-david-BL_Q4zjduGU-unsplash+%281%29.jpg Freedom Poetry - Freedom to Be… - Make it stand out Photo Credit: Jackson David https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1673801194089-CFE87VULL3IP6MUTVGGE/18.png Freedom Poetry - Freedom to Be… - Brittany Walker Entrepreneurial Consulting Expert, Plant-Based Nutritionist, Alchemist & Author aiming to serve, heal and educate the underrepresented (people of color, women, LGBT+ & veterans) on how to seek wealth through financial freedom and optimal health. Reversed 10+ chronic illnesses organically including Diabetes & Bipolar II Disorder! Lover of beaches, books, writing, food & metaphysical methods. Check out "NNG's Formula to Kick Cramp's Ass - A blueprint to naturally get rid of cramps" on all book platforms and "Transcend with NNG" podcast on all podcast platforms. 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She is the founder of Spiritualista Beautique, a luxury botanica that creates quality spiritual tools to support Sisters in sacred self-care practices. As a facilitator, Mariëlle has hosted events such as Black Lady Detox and A Journey into the Divine Feminine to create safe spaces where Sisters can find healing and celebrate their expansiveness. When she's not deep-diving into new spiritual concepts, she is enjoying this journey called life, with her husband and their three children. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. 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Photo by Debbie Njai, founder of Black People Who Hike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1673801188162-S130AIGLUZ1UQXM162H5/5.png Freedom Essays, Fiction & Interviews - Finding Freedom on the Other Side of the Waterfall - Sarah Martin S. Alayne Martin (she / they) is a poet, storyteller and community organizer based in St. Louis, Missouri. Finding inspiration from her everyday lived experiences, her poetic musings and short stories offer spiritual ascension and open portals to other worlds of being. When she is not writing, you can catch her meditating and frocklicking in nature, dancing to the beat of her own drum, and tending to her blooming garden of indoor plants. 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This book from Thich Nhat Hanh, a beloved teacher for many of us, is our invitation. https://plumvillage.org/books/no-mud-no-lotus/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/8f3f2f86-c272-4809-8310-e1bb299fd3c5/vibratehigher.jpeg Freedom Essays, Fiction & Interviews - Liberation and Purpose: A Discussion with Writer, Podcaster, Founder & Activist, Emelda De Coteau - Vibrate Higher: Live your Power by Lalah Delia It’s a beautiful offering reminding us to make space for growth, purpose, and alignment in all aspects of our lives. https://www.vibratehigherdaily.com/book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/0a7601aa-758a-4529-b7d8-ef73e61b53cb/41zgOPGrBOL._AC_SY1000_.jpg Freedom Essays, Fiction & Interviews - Liberation and Purpose: A Discussion with Writer, Podcaster, Founder & Activist, Emelda De Coteau - Heart Minded: How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love by Sarah Blondin Sarah is one of my favorite meditation teachers on Insight Timer; her book is a balm and refugee for many of us who are weary and worn. https://www.sarahblondin.com/book https://www.spokenblackgirl.com/freedom-essays-fiction-interviews/2023/1/17/zaire-lumi-by-aasha monthly 0.5 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/67c72b4a-0a11-4d44-8343-97ad229fe230/nick-owuor-astro-nic-visuals-cGTg2OwgZoE-unsplash.jpg Freedom Essays, Fiction & Interviews - Zaire Lumi - Make it stand out Photo Credit: Nick Owour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/8e54e7b1-4602-4cac-b529-a2417ef49564/65.png Freedom Essays, Fiction & Interviews - Zaire Lumi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/81ac7a7a-5d06-41b7-a60c-32750411e112/66.png Freedom Essays, Fiction & Interviews - Zaire Lumi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1673801188650-4QA2KBP7AZMRM81WIH4B/6.png Freedom Essays, Fiction & Interviews - Zaire Lumi - Aasha My name is Aasha (pronounced ah-a-sha) and I am muslim Indo Trinidadian Indigenous writer and illustrator from Harlem New York. 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A few years ago, I was dealing with health and anger issues that made me slow down and take a long hard look at what was going on in my life. My skin was inflamed and dry due to medications I was prescribed after being diagnosed with a chronic heart disease. My body and mind was unbalanced. I was a total mess and did not like the person I had become. Taking a leave of absence from work, and having nothing but time on my hands, I starting taking steps to find inner peace. First step was getting to the root of why I was angry. I purchased a journal and starting writing my feelings, thoughts and needs down. I began researching ways to be mindful and kind to myself, and was lead to daily affirmations and how to meditate. I’ve always had a love for nature and outdoor activities, so I joined a community garden. I grew vegetables, flowers and herbs that helped my health and well-being. 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Abari Tonya "T.T." Abari is a multigenre storyteller – author, independent journalist, freelance editor, and book reviewer. Her words and reviews can be found in Publishers Weekly, Womanly Magazine, SWING Magazine, Raising Mothers, AARP’s Sisters Letter, USA Today, Good Housekeeping, ZORA, and many more! She has published and forthcoming children’s books with The Innovation Press, Mudpuppy, HarperCollins, Penguin, and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Abari is also a teaching artist with PorchTN and the Books on Books on Books column editor for Raising Mothers. As a Hurston-Wright Writers Week and Carnegie Hall/Roots.Words.Wounds. creative nonfiction alum, her writing often centers on her multifaceted life as a Black woman and mother in the United States. www.tonyaabari.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/f1383aba-628c-479e-8670-c3c4bafa415b/IMG_6065+-+Natasha+Thomas.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Natasha Elle Thomas Natasha Elle Thomas is a transdisciplinary writer, artist, educator, and healing arts practitioner whose work lives at the intersection of social justice, embodied spirituality, creative activism, and transformative change. Grounded in the wisdom traditions of her creative, cultural, and ancestral foremothers, she specializes in the reclamation, decolonization, and preservation of spiritual and political practices, rituals, and technologies that serve as pathways to personal and collective healing and liberation. 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Alongside nurturing her family, she ardently pursues her love for the written word, weaving narratives that echo her values and experiences. In her bustling household, Lyanna shares her life with her supportive husband and three vibrant daughters, fostering an environment steeped in love, empathy, and a commitment to making a difference in the lives of others. FB: Moore 2 Love Doula Services IG: Moore2love_doulaservices TikTok: moore2lovedoula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/6112c6d3-2ab9-43a8-ae98-150ee9f926e3/picture+5058+-+Adrienne+Prather.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Adrienne Prather Adrienne Prather is an Atlanta native who enjoys writing and reciting poetry and is the author of Reflections of Love, an inspirational poetry book and Encouragement Cafe a self-help book to encourage and strengthen Educators. Prather's poem Dream on Dreamer was featured in Rolling Out Magazine. Her testimony was written in a book entitled, I've Got a Testimony. Also, Prather's poetry, Ruler of Everything was featured in the Rejoice Atlanta newspaper. In the lifestyle section of the Clayton Neighbor newspaper, Adrienne shared her gift of poetry with the world in an article written about her. Adrienne graduated from Atlanta Metropolitan College with an Associate of Arts Degree in Mass Communications and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism from Georgia State University. At Ashworth College, she received a Diploma in Writing Children's Books Program and proudly graduated with Honors. Encouraging and motivating others is what she is called to do. IG: @tmialuv https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/7d93900d-66fa-44ba-9d7a-bcaa7aa4f694/IMG_9707+-+Gabrielle+Sanders.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - G. Sanders While G usually loves to write— her short stories have been featured in magazines like Short Fiction Break and The Writer’s Playground— her first love was drawing. You can find more of G’s artwork and writing on the online art magazine The Drawing Room. Last year brought many changes to her life but her new little muse has filled her with so much joy. https://g-sanders-site.squarespace.com/ IG: @sketchlilthings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/0de5ac2f-9fb4-4f12-b402-0ba0cddaa3f3/WhatsApp+Image+2024-02-01+at+11.20.38+PM+-+Maholin+Navarro.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Maholin Navarro My name is Maholin Navarro. I am a Journalist, entrepreneur and a Writer from Venezuela, currently based in Ireland since 10 years ago. I am passionate about writing and researching topics related to Black Women, especially everything linked to Black People from Latin America. I am a social activist interested in equality, LGBTQ+, racism, and xenophobia. I am constantly expressing my point of view through my writing, which is generally about social topics that are not so comfortable to talk about on a daily basis. My principal mission as a writer is to create that question mark; about topics that people normally think they have clear and understood. I want people to recognize that not everything is black and white but instead there's a lot of nuances. I have a previous writing background in Spanish language, writing theater plays, and press including: TV, newspapers, social media, and magazines. In 2020 Rowana Abbensetts launched me as a writer and guest Editor in English for Spoken Black Girl New York, which has been a very enriching and powerful experience. Social Media @gmahohoji Email: maholinnavarro1@gmail.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/4ef5dcf3-6571-47fd-b8c6-d3e23b2f1c45/website-photo+1.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Dr. Shameka Poetry Thomas, PhD, MA (she/her/goddess) Dr. SHAMEKA POETRY THOMAS, PhD, MA (she/her/goddess) is a Global Maternal and Child Health Scientist, Medical Sociologist, International Poet, and Meditation-Yoga Instructor who recently completed the Fogarty International Global Health Fellowship at Harvard University, School of Public Health. As anearly-career principal investigator, she finalized her data collection, founding and leading a project called: SICKLE CELL WOMEN & GIRLS (S.W.A.G.) PROJECT OF ACCRA, GHANA, at the Ghana Institute of Clinical Genetics, while living abroad in Ghana for 12 consecutive months. Dr. Thomas also completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) /National Human Genomics Research Institutes (NHGRI)-Bethesda campus, where her scientific research focused on patient perceptions of noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) among Black women with genetic conditions, such as sickle cell disease. Dr. Thomas earnedher Ph.D.in August 2020 from University of Miami, where her dissertation entitled, “Giving Birth in South Florida: A Phenomenological Study on the Pregnancy and Birthing Experiences among Black Women,” was nominated for the Most Outstanding Dissertation award. Dr. Thomas is an alum of Spelman College (a historically Black college for woman), where her research also won the Scholar‐Activism award for being a distinguished global health scholar at the University of California-Berkeley and at University of Cape Town, South Africa. Currently, Dr. Thomas is the Vice President of the Beyond Global Health Anthology and editor on the advisory board for Springer Nature’s Maternal and Child Health Journal. She joins the Ohio State University’s College of Medicine as the Provost Fellow’s Faculty on the tenure track in the Center of Bioethics, focusing on global bioethics, race, and health equity. To learn more about her African-inspired wellness lifestyle brand and travel experiences, subscribe to her YouTube channel @DrPoetrySpeaksHealth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/8dec5e0c-faaa-4b3d-8607-28f62265ee5c/IMG_0178.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Emelda (“E”) De Coteau Emelda Juanita De Coteau is a loving wife, mama, creative (writer, podcaster, spiritual activist / organizer), and believer seeking God anew in each moment. Although based in Baltimore, this daughter of a Honduran immigrant feels at home throughout the world. She leads Pray with Our Feet (PWF), an online community lifting the intersection of progressive Christian faith and social justice; she co-hosts the PWF podcast with her Mom, Trudy. Her writing has appeared in Good Faith Media, Spoken Black Girl Magazine, Good Life Detroit, Beautifully Said Magazine, The Baltimore Times, and on the Pray with our Feet website where she regularly blogs and shares devotionals on spiritual life. Emelda has also blogged for women-led organizations: Breaking the Silence...Healing the Pain and Modestine Tea. She is also the founder of When Motherhood Looks Different, a community -based small business helping Mamas of neurodivergent kids and Moms with chronic illness center mindfulness and connect in community by offering events, resources, support and mindfulness coaching. Emelda is a certified mindfulness coach and trauma informed mindfulness facilitator. Instagram: @Whenmotherhoodlooksdifferent @Praywithourfeet Website: Praywithourfeet.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/8fb31bf1-2bd6-49a9-b46f-7e08adbae28c/headshotphoto+-+L.+Samantha+Smith.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - LaToya Samantha Smith LaToya Samantha Leidig emigrated from Nassau, Bahamas to Delray Beach, Florida when she was two years old. Her parents, Jamaican natives- left the Caribbean in search of solace from political unrest, and the promise of the American Dream. After earning her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Bethune-Cookman College, LaToya became a humanities instructor at her former high school. She has since maintained a career as a teacher working with At-Promise students in Florida, Maryland and California. LaToya is a writer with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Lindenwood University. She maintains a blog with writings dedicated to parenthood and social justice. LaToya is also the author of a thought-provoking children’s book called Poor Mr. Monday, and a journal called Overcoming Mom Guilt. IG: Overcomingmomguilt samsmithwriter.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1205382f-64e9-479d-8c79-9cb72049b366/FB_IMG_1692480545374+-+Chrystol+Wilson-Payne.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Chrystol Wilson-Payne Chrystol Wilson-Payne, an experienced writer and Licensed Professional Counselor, leverages her diverse upbringing as a military brat to connect with people. Despite being an introvert, she finds joy in connecting with others through her writings, workshops, and social media presence. She empowers individuals to prioritize their mental and emotional health, guiding them to identify internal struggles, heal wounds, and move towards their purpose. Chrystol counts it an honor to partner with many on their journey to better. TikTok @ChrystolLPC , IG: @ChrystolLPC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/125ff112-7f9d-465e-9796-d035b8d32266/25879900-854F-474F-817C-A1BFF67A67FD+-+Mari+_%29.jpeg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Mari Corona Blessings beautiful souls, my name is Mari Corona and I am a photographer and writer who empowers, motivates, and inspires through images and words. I also work as a Wellness Advocate holding workshops that encourage BIPOC self-care, mental health, and women’s wellness as a priority, not an after-thought. I am an International Healing through Art Facilitator advocating for Transforming traumas into the foundation that Creates your Best Life. https://www.visionsbymari.com https://www.livinginmommywoodblog.wordpress.com IG: @visionssbymari @livinginmommywood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/3d14acf7-bf32-4c44-a0e5-02d7fd7ff46c/Denver-Headshot-Co-Small0274+-+Lisa+Roy.jpeg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Dr. Lisa Roy Dr. Lisa Roy is an emerging writer. Her day job is as the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood. She has a doctorate in leadership for educational equity, a masters in counseling psychology and counselor education, and a bachelors in psychology and speech communication. Most recently Dr. Roy completed a graduate certificate in advanced writing from the University of Nebraska Omaha. She has published with Brevity, The Linden Review, and Essay Daily. https://www.lisarroy.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/4bddaaa8-5afc-4f28-bf1b-050f156a16ba/Screenshot_20231221_223413_Photos+-+Pauline+Mansfield.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Pauline Mansfield As an author, freelance magazine writer for Kin and Dignity Magazine, and biographer for Story Terrace Ltd, Pauline Mansfield shares her stories and creates legacy stories for others as a story artisan. Writing is her passion, and Pauline translates that passion into life stories for herself and others. She holds a B.A. degree in Psychology and a Master's Degree in Business Leadership. https://www.turtlequeenwriteplace.com https://www.facebook.com/pauline.mansfield2?mibextid=ZbWKwL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/5a452738-c531-4c3d-8a5b-13442a307220/Traci+Neal-+Recent+Headshot+-+Traci+Neal+Speaker+Poet.JPG The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Traci Neal Traci Neal is a neurodivergent spoken word artist listed on Poets & Writers residing in Columbia, SC. She is featured in The New York Times, Mahogany (Hallmark) writing community, The Elevation Review, 1619 Speaks Anthology in 2023 (Sims Library of Poetry), and many other media publications. In 2023, she was a Pushcart Prize Nominee for The Elevation Review, longlisted for the African Diaspora Award with Kinsman Quarterly, the second-place poetry winner of the National Career Development Association, and the second-place poetry winner of the South Carolina Career Development Association. Neal uses her poetry platform to help bring awareness to non-profits in need worldwide. https://www.tracinealspeakerpoet.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/a5d56b77-bc41-4908-92de-c691cb1fc744/Tangela+Williams+Spann_DSC_2672R+-+Tangela+Williams-Spann.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Tangela Williams-Spann Tangela Williams-Spann is a writer, mother, favorite auntie to many, and mental health advocate. She enjoys using her unique voice to share the experiences of Black Women and Femmes in America. Tangela’s first book, Sad, Black, And Fat: Musings from the intersection was published in 2021 and her second book is expected in 2024. Her passion for learning has allowed her to obtain degrees in sociology and special education. When not looking for effective self-care strategies, she enjoys gardening, napping, and crochet. www.twillspannwrites.com Facebook, Threads and IG @twillspann https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/02177279-7f94-4774-83ca-3bdeffa7fb7d/IMG_0600+-+R.+Jasmine.jpeg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Requel Jasmine Requel Jasmine, a dedicated blogger at voyagetoher.com exploring and expressing the journey of womanhood, revels in the evolution of her writing. Initiated as a coping mechanism during the passing of her mother, her words became a lens through which someone finally saw her for who she is. This transformative process unfolded into a healing journey, unveiling writing as an integral part of her purpose. howard_heiress and requeljasmime_writes www.voyagetoher.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/dbf52e43-ade1-4315-aca7-dad797e2c7b9/648903_3498fcb0862b43eb9505decdeb62973b%7Emv2+-+Ari+Foster.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Ari Foster Ari Foster was born in Japan to parents serving in the United States Air Force. Raised in South Carolina, Ari has been writing poetry as a means of reflection and expression since early childhood. Currently, she serves as a social worker and licensed therapist, providing advocacy and therapy to children, adults, and families impacted by violence, abuse and trauma. Ari’s writing most frequently visits themes of coming of age, odes to southern imagery and black art, and reflections on motherhood and relationships. She tells stories of hurt and healing, including her own, and believes deeply in honoring the aesthetic of her nostalgia. As with her own healing, she finds beauty in the healing experiences of others, and continues to be inspired to creativity and storytelling that honors the unique journeys within and around her. https://www.instagram.com/aribariart/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/c70c6c88-221f-4d33-a4c3-a9ccc84883ac/IMG_9758+-+Anje+Woodruffe+%281%29.JPG The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Dr. Anjuliet G. Woodruffe Dr. Anjuliet G. Woodruffe, is a Communication Scholar who uses autoethnography, poetry and Black transnational feminist frameworks to explore issues of Black identity. anjulietwoodruffe.com @anjewoodruffe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/82104331-c0b0-42a3-88ec-393826b3348a/NubiaDuVallWilson_2023_JaleseAyana+-+Nubia+DuVall+Wilson.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Nubia DuVall Wilson Nubia DuVall Wilson is a published poet and author, TV/film producer and advocate for survivors of sexual abuse. In May 2018, she published her second book, The Survivors Club, a supernatural novella inspired by her journey to heal as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. The novella is the inspiration behind a TV pilot in development through her production company, Starfury Productions. When she is not managing the day-to-day operations of her lifestyle-focused public relations and marketing firm, Cielo Consulting, she works to break through the silence around the high prevalence of child sexual abuse in the United States—especially among women of color—and the long-term effects of abuse into adulthood. Nubia graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, with a degree in English and a minor in Religion. She lives in New Jersey with her family. Learn more at www.nubiaduvall.com and on IG and TikTok @NubiaDWilson http://www.youtube.com/@nubiaduvallwilson1163 IG - https://www.instagram.com/nubiadwilson/ - FB - https://www.facebook.com/NubiaDuVallWilson - Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@nubiadwilson?lang=en https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/edc5df6b-865c-44e5-97e1-aed8821da14f/MOBITALKSDC2023-4+-+Brookie+Madison.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Brookie Madison Brookie Madison (she/her) is a writer, poet, storyteller, and creative from Ohio. Her passions include writing (poetry, articles, short stories), reading, supporting small businesses and entrepreneurs, attending open mics, and creating content that cultivates and amplifies Black life and a community of Black writers. In 2021, Brookie published her book of poems, “Confessions of A Good Girl,” which is available on Amazon. To view more of her work, go to brookiemmadison.com or follow her on Instagram @brookiemmadison.poetry. https://brookiemmadison.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/b383ec39-3917-40b9-909a-b30a895bddca/IMG_0938+-+Francena+Ottley.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Francena Ottley Francena Ottley is a Dominican- American, New York-based Textile Artist, Photographer, Installation Artist, and Mother. Her work consists of using different mediums to create narrative pieces that focus on empowering people of color and uses her art as a tool for visual activism. Her goal is to always make work that speaks to people, empowers people, and shares knowledge while always remaining authentic. Cenagraphy.onfabrik.com Social media: Instagram.com/lebleuart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/2306e746-68c8-436d-8b7e-34fd7b7314fa/dsc08802-edit+-+Caneeka+Elleanor.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Caneeka Elleanor Miller Caneeka Elleanor Miller is the Author of IN A HIGH PLACE: Black Motherhood and a Woman Rising. A four-time self-published author, she has a degree in Human Development with a concentration in Family Studies from the University of Alabama. She has an MBA from the University of Phoenix, and she has completed coursework towards a Master of Jurisprudence degree in Children’s Law and Policy with Loyola University Chicago School of Law which helps nonlegal professionals better serve children and families. After experiencing a miscarriage before having her second child, Caneeka was empowered to be apart of the inaugural DONA I.M.P.A.C.T. (Improving Maternal health Practices and Advocacy through Certification and Training) cohort to become a DONA trained Postpartum Doula. She recognized the importance having hands on support after each childbirth or child loss has on the well-being of the mother and thus the family unit. Caneeka has shared her story with universities, student organizations, middle schools, women’s ministries, the Wall Street Journal, creatives conference, organizations like AAUW and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Housing Urban Development (HUD) government agency, local radio, local TV, and magazines.A mother of two boys and a loving wife of 16 years, Caneeka resides in the Rocket City. www.caneekaelleanor.com http://www.youtube.com/@caneekaelleanor8239 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/a5ceb877-566a-4ab1-8924-5e0e0267d68c/author+photo+full+-+Schyler+Butler.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Schyler Butler A recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, Schyler Butler's work appears in African American Review, Obsidian, Transition, Cordella, swamp pink, and elsewhere. Currently, she lives in Columbus, OH, where she is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at The Ohio State University. https://schyler.journoportfolio.com/ IG: whistle_the_blues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/9e995cba-2dd7-490e-94e6-d5884a51324e/90506D94-4B75-471E-882E-B5F0B664AD84+-+Angelique+Soulet.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Angie Soul Lifestyle blogger living in the Tampa Bay area. Wife. Mommy. Career woman. 33 and thriving. Angiesoul.com IG: angmeetssoul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/4437faa4-1677-42bc-a57f-a3ff8427d899/michele+evans+headshot+-+michele+evans.png The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Michele Evans Michele Evans, a fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.), is a writer, high school English teacher, and adviser for her school's literary magazine, Unbound. Despite always wearing the color black, she exhibits a certain fondness for blueberries, blue hydrangeas, blues musicians, and Blue Mountain coffee. This 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of the ASP Bulletin poetry contest has been published in Artemis Journal, Maryland Literary Review, The Write Launch, and elsewhere. purl, her debut collection of poetry, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2025. www.awordsmithie.com Instagram: awordsmithie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/751cdb2f-5c2a-4f05-a084-c30d35ffd6e7/Standard+-+Headshot+8+-+Tamara+J.+Madison.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Tamara J. Madison Tamara J. Madison is a writer, poet, and editor with work recorded, published and produced in various journals, magazines, and anthologies. She has also presented on the TEDx platform. She is creator of BREAKDOWN: The Poet & The Poems, a YouTube conversation series. Her most recent poetry collection is Threed, This Road Not Damascus (Trio House Press). @tamarajmadison on Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), and LinkedIn https://www.youtube.com/c/Tamarajmadisonwriterpoet www.tamarajmadison.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/8a23daec-5a6d-4f3f-b424-9b57525128c9/headshot+-+Ashley+C.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Ashley Crooks-Allen Ashley Crooks-Allen (They/Them) is the Dubois-Mandela Rodney / Anti-Racism Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. They recently obtained their PhD from the University of Georgia, where they focused on Black ethnic identity, social movements, and social media. Their dissertation is titled, “Mestizaje Undone: A Qualitative Social Media Analysis of Afro-Latinx Identity & Social Movements.” This work takes a qualitative approach to understanding how Afro-Latinx people use social media to make identity claims in relation to the Black Lives Matter movement. Dr. Crooks-Allen's master's research, also at the University of Georgia, focused on Afro-Caribbean identity and experiences with the Black Lives Matter movement in Georgia. They also completed a graduate certificate in women’s and gender studies. They graduated from Emory University with a major in creative writing and a minor in sociology. While at Emory, they were a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. Dr. Crooks-Allen is from Irvington, NJ and is of Afro-Costa Rican descent. Their interest in Black migratory identity formation developed while living the effects of their parents migrating to the US and settling into Black prescribed spaces. In conjunction with academia, they also devote time to spoken word poetry and activism. https://youtu.be/25fXY13HaVM?si=jN-BqghaGb-1z0tq @Lyrical_Ley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/2580f810-5e33-4e6f-a50f-bae4ae076425/F1047F64-2829-42AA-B638-A6A3552B5008+-+Leonora+Martelly.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Leonora Martelly Leonora Martelly, a quadruple award-winning AUTHORpreneur, is renowned for her self-published works. As the founder of SHE IS MADE LLC, she passionately delves into mass media, youth development, and project management. Her multifaceted roles span from curator, host, and public speaker to activist, mental health advocate, and champion of self-care. Leonora's impactful voice resonates through her literary achievements and her dedication to fostering positive change and empowerment within communities. Her most important role you ask ? Being a mom to her beautiful daughter Leyana. IG: Whois.leonora & Sheis.made TikTok: Blissfullee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/0d93613d-ca86-4f99-a29d-a62b121706eb/QR+Williams+Headshot+Photo+2020+-+Qia+Williams.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Q.R. Williams Q.R. Williams is a certified notary public and creative writer. Throughout her career, she has mainly served within Healthcare and Customer Service. Q.R. previously held the professional titles of: Care Navigator Supervisor, Senior Administrative Assistant, and Client Service Professional. She is certified as an Etiquette Decorum Instructor, Community Health Worker, Mental Health First Aid Advocate, and Reflective Conversation Facilitator. She is also certified in Restorative Justice 101. Q.R. was a featured digital photography artist within the 'When Homeward You Turn' Exhibition at Dittmar Gallery' [Northwestern University]. Recently, she completed the Women's Entrepreneurship Program at Cornell University. Q.R. is married to husband, Joshua & the mother of John and Jalani. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087571743593&mibextid=ZbWKwL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/508366a0-4883-4fed-8a79-99919751dce6/IMG_3537.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Melanie Andrade Williams Melanie Andrade Williams is a first-gen Cape Verdean American who grew up in Central Florida in a bustling diverse community where she was unaware of the realities of racism in the modern day, until she left for college at 19 and attended an HBCU, where she learned of the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin and became a student activist. Her favorite authors are James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler. Melanie is a black feminist, loves writing poetry, shorts, and is working on her first novel. Melanie currently works as a lobbyist and reproductive justice organizer and has a Bachelors in Legal Support and Services. melanieandradewilliams.com @thatMword_ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/d39a1b7f-adfa-4ccf-a629-c838f9847e66/ArikaHeadshot3of4.jpg+-+Arika+Parr.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Arika Parr Arika Parr is a children’s book author based in St. Louis, MO where she lives with her daughter, Ava. From a very young age, Arika loved words and creative writing. Her passion for storytelling propelled her career as a TV & radio producer and community development professional. Then Ava came along, and Arika found a new passion – teaching her daughter, as well as other children, the importance of looking within for encouragement, positive self-talk, and perseverance. This was the beginning of a new and exciting phase of Arika’s life, where she merged her two passions, old and new, to create something special: Ava + Mommy Publishing. It’s a way for Arika to use Ava’s real-life challenges to create social and emotional learning solutions through storytelling, in hopes of providing support and inspiration for other kids and parents. AvaAndMommy.com IG - Ava-AndMommy and Arika Parr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/fe93ce3a-352b-4e70-99a5-da1a6b4a3f85/download_20200527_153947+%282%29+-+Mimi+In+Tokyo.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Michelle Parks Michelle Parks is the mother of four and has served the Community of Women for over 20 years. She has served as a Women’s Center Director, Legal Advocate, Case Manager, Group Counselor, and Lobbyist for women’s issues. Michelle established her first language school in Cairo, Egypt in 2005, and has successfully established a global presence. Among Michelle's numerous artistic endeavors is singing jazz at local venues, hosting a podcast about life in the MimiVerse, and maintaining a blog about her world travels with her children. https://maadi-language-lab.blogspot.com/p/writing-workshops.html https://open.spotify.com/episode/4EtUoUNaI7PETONw6LKawB?si=Gtp3tQtNRV643EBj7gb2bA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/d770ba2e-53ea-4d11-89be-a7ac31be3826/IMG_1551+3+-+Ryana+Burrell.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Ryana Burrell Ryana is an artist and storyteller with a professional background in social design. Her worldview has been shaped and framed by constant movement — as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, and growing up between the United States and South Africa. Ryana has now settled in New York City, where her creative spirit feels most at home, with her partner and her son. www.ryanaburrell.com @on_ephemera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/be239453-0316-4fbf-881f-a55c628efe92/LRG_DSC03642+-+Attorious+Renee+Augustin.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - attorious renée augustin attorious renée augustin is a nonbinary (they/them), queer, performance poet, filmmaker, and educator from Wanamassa, NJ. Their work focuses on transformation and community, and their hope is for their art to serve as a catalyst in the liberation of all people from oppressive systems. Attorious received their poetry MFA at Rutgers University- Newark, the host of Lampblack’s Instagram Live Series, “The Inky Bulb” and is the Educational Development Director with EvoluCulture. @attorioustheealchemist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/dbcfc3d7-f443-41a9-b587-3d1aeec0a6c8/House_boss2+%281%29+-+Ashley+Gaddy.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Dr. Ashley Gaddy Robbins For many of us, our calling comes to us at a young age. Dr. Ashley Gaddy Robbins first heard her calling in her early years and followed that voice in pursuit of advocating for equity in underserved communities. Dr. Gaddy Robbins serves as the founder and head consultant of Ashley Gaddy Enterprises, an organizational culture agency that centers humanity using an authentic approach. Dr. Gaddy Robbins is a North Carolina native and received her Bachelor’s in Communication Studies and Master’s in Liberal Studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and PhD in Cultural Studies at George Mason University. As a Black woman who has worked mostly in predominantly white spaces in the south, Dr. Gaddy Robbins spends much time advocating for vulnerable identity groups and centering their power. She is a wife, Amma to 4 girls, and member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. https://ashleygaddyenterprises.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnJjSXgeFOOijQh38OCe78w https://www.instagram.com/dr.ashleygaddyrobbins/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/1ab41c4c-616b-4038-ac3c-269d9d3e7e90/NHoward+headshot+923+-+Natasha+Howard.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - N.R. Howard N.R. Howard is a writer, researcher, and creator. By day she is a college professor with expertise in media, communications, Black motherhood, and the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in the media and society. She has written for both academic and popular outlets on topics pertaining to reproductive justice issues, activism, and Black women in hip-hop and on television. By night she works on her two main passions: writing and creating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/4dc7c05d-c1b2-419f-912e-900b59bb2dd4/Cynthia+Robinson+Young+-+Cynthia+Young.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Cynthia Robinson Young Cynthia Robinson Young, a native of Newark, New Jersey, now lives in Tennessee after taking a 30-year haitus in the California Bay Area. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, her work has appeared in journals and magazines, including The Amistad, Poetry South, Rigorous,Charlotte Lit, and The Writer's Chronicle. She is the author of Migration (Finishing Line Press). IG: @cyndigene; (Twitter) X:@young_young8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/3d021f8b-3b39-41ed-9afa-d5e9e2d07777/3+-+Lou-Ann+Wattley+Belk.png The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Lou-Ann Wattley Belk Lou-Ann Wattley Belk is a compassionate creative, childbirth educator, postpartum companion, wife and mother of 2 amazing children. As the creator of Well Worth Watering, she offers support to expecting parents that help them uncover wisdom and confidence along their childbirth journey. Along with her husband, Lou-Ann uncovers new ways to speak life into her children’s growing hearts and minds each day. Both raised in Brooklyn, New York, they now live in Northern Virginia. www.wellworthwatering.com Instagram: @wellworthwatering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/a4428d1f-e44f-4a7a-a123-3d939f4bdb0d/2BEF986F-CB59-4B71-A203-735CDF74F975.JPG The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Reign X Poet, Digital Artist, Photographer, Podcaster, and Politica, living in New Mexico. Instagram: i_am_reign_artistcommune https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/e29495e7-0a8a-4d43-b130-e4a637757f4c/image000000.jpg+%281%29+-+Jade+Beth+J.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Jade Jemison Jade Jemison is a 3rd year graduate student at USF, and a nonfiction writer exploring topics of pregnancy, reproductive health, and motherhood. She also studies mother-daughter relationships in literature and how they impact modern society. Her thesis is a memoir about her experiences with pregnancy, loss, and healing. She is a mother of two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/3d7948da-e0e4-46f9-99c0-a9a6283ed04f/FB_IMG_1655060784126+-+Aisha+Willis.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Aisha N. Willis Aisha N. Willis is obsessed with words and their power to create communities. She is curious about how those words are used to affect the built environment and their impact on systemic structures. Aisha believes the common unity that exists in expanded communities is affected greatly by how we discuss their people. Aisha is a freelance content strategist, poet, public speaker, and wannabe musician. She enjoys playing video games, reading comic books, watching anime, and streaming music from the comfort of her Dallas home. Aisha has lived through some really uncomfortable things that make her comfortable speaking up and out for those who don't have a voice. AishaNWillis.com @AishaAdventures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/55d7a44b-724c-421a-8157-6c7d2f99ca7a/Screenshot+2024-01-06+at+13-48-03+Amber+Earls+%28%40thepoetress%29+%E2%80%A2+Instagram+photos+and+videos+-+Amber+Cherise.png The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Amber C. Earls Philadelphia Native, ReadiWriter, editor, swing dancer, vocalist, living on purpose. https://www.instagram.com/thepoetress/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/c1956fbb-a80b-468c-b7af-b40b1d23d485/IMG_0858+-+Triston+Dabney.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Triston Dabney Triston Dabney is an undergraduate Oprah Winfrey Scholar from Baltimore, MD. He hopes to pursue a career in higher education and publish a collection of poems in the near future. You can find his work in Break bread magazine, Elevation Review, and Timberline Review among others. Ig & Twitter- Tristandbelieve https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/033ab47e-9f16-4cf0-b2c7-e25d1fbbfeef/untitled+%2881+of+85%29+-+Queyonna+Jacqueal.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Quey Jacqueal Quey Jacqueal (she/her/hers) is a Black Queer Black-American writer. Born and raised in Grand Rapids, and roots in Mississippi. She has two B.A.s, one in Journalism and the other in Creative Writing, emphasizing Poetry and Fiction—a social worker by day and a bleeding-hearted poet at night. https://www.instagram.com/quey_jac_deep/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/723055ca-3399-4aa5-8d53-9cb793ff43e5/286703619_1861192630937561_2686369269551137886_n+-+Seashells+Prosperity.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Shiela Denise Scott Shiela Denise Scott, award-winning letter writer, chosen to exhibit quoter, poet, and photographer published in multiple magazines, and anthologies looks forward to entertaining the art connoisseurs. Her skills earned at Full Sail University and Antonelli College allows her to display her works in creative displays she hopes you enjoy. www.facebook.com/poetshieladenisescott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/8b9f9a75-aa7b-4d68-b3ec-dbface6f9104/IMG_3288+-+Katonya+Trent.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Katonya Trent Katonya Trent was born and raised in Riverhead, NY located on the east end of Long Island. After having a traumatic birth experience, she was inspired to become an author. Her son has helped her change her perspective on life. She is on a mission of bringing her story to light while educating the world about the challenges that could arise from having a preterm birth. By sharing her story, she hopes to reassure others of their inner strengths when being placed in some of the most difficult situations in life. Katonya obtained her bachelor’s in Accounting from Lincoln University, the first Historical Black College/University, in December of 2007. Her desire to help others helped her land a career at a non-for-profit where she currently works as a Senior Program Accountant. She is responsible for budget analysis - creating, maintaining, and reconstructing financial budgets for a variety of programs that are implemented to help communities throughout Suffolk County, Long Island. Katonya is a member of the Family Advisory Council at StonyBrook Hospital where she advocates for family-centered care and a volunteer for the Ronald McDonald Family NICU room at Stonybrook Hospital. She is an author, social impact speaker and an active member of the March of Dimes Long Island chapter. Her family was chosen to be the ambassador for the March of Dimes LI Chapter in 2022. Katonya’s personal experience has motivated her to write her first book titled, 22 and 6 Born on 11/26 where she provides hope and encouragement to women and families who may have or will encounter a traumatic birth experience. While writing her memoir, Katonya has created a platform under the name of Konnected Thru 22, where she provides a safe space for families with premature babies to connect through stories and resources, while supporting and uplifting one another. She hosts monthly Instagram live sessions where she brings on others to share their premature birth stories. She has an ongoing fundraising to raise money to help provide care packages and essential supplies to families in the NICU on a quarterly basis. https://konnectedthru22.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/bc642101-7b58-4d9d-b241-d012d5bb971a/20211022_171240+-+Janessa+Jones.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Janessa Jones Janessa Jones resides in Maryland. By day she works in the healthcare field for an insurance company, but by night she is an avid reader and writer. She has been writing since childhood and is working on a children's book that teaches social/emotional skills with hopes to be a published author soon. In her free time, she also enjoys cooking, journaling, shadow work, learning about all things involving spirituality, and spending time with her active 6 year old son. IG: itsjdeann https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/65bf3f17-5876-4737-b483-f6ca77b26275/16DCF09E-ED4E-4A60-B030-372C2053E7B7+-+Destiny+Prescott.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Destiny “Theory of Soul” Prescott Destiny “Theory of Soul” Prescott is a spoken word artist/writer based out of the city of Long Beach. She has performed at various engagements from fundraising events to churches to music sets, using art as a way to take “ugly” truths and turn them into something beautiful others can connect with or learn from. She is excited to continue to help others find connection and healing through her craft, using her voice to amplify the stories and struggles that many times are otherwise unheard. You can find more of Theory of Soul's poetry and connect on Instagram by following her page @wordfienedes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/58c2558e-514e-4f44-b96f-964196441bfa/_SLS5405+-+Sankara+OLAMA+YAI.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Sankara “Le Prince Héritier” Olama-Yai Sankara” Le Prince Héritier” Olama-Yai is an Afro-diasporic author hailing from Cameroon & the Yoruba Kingdom. They have authored two collections: “Ebony Wings” and “Ode to our Frailty”, longlisted for the Black Sexton poetry prize, and, hopefully soon, a third collection, titled “Afro-Dreaming” Longlisted for the Thirty West chapbook prize. Outside poetry, their limited-time-interest include modeling, traveling, and Afro-futurist/surreal art. Their poems have also been published by About Place journal, Black Lesbian Collective, Rising Phoenix Press and elsewhere. They are currently looking for a home for their new Manuscript "Fatal {A}sex & Sovereign Bodies" @Sanksterr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/7647275d-bb48-47e4-8371-9832ded1ff92/IMG_4835+-+Jasmine+Tabor.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Jasmine Denise Tabor Jasmine Denise Tabor is a Black queer writer from the deep south and a graduate Mellon Mays Fellow and Edith A. Hambie Poetry Prize Recipient of Spelman College C'21 currently at Syracuse University working on their poetry MFA. Works appear (or are forthcoming) in/on Poets.org, Michigan Literary Review, Agnes Scott Literary Journal, among others. Aside from writing, they co-led Salt Hill as editor-in-chief for 2022. They were a Stove Works resident, Meacham fellow for fall 2023, and Vermont Studio Resident as of Summer 2024. jdtabor.cargo.site jastabor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ee5a0e03596e44a7f5c790/7dc6fbe3-fc3f-4569-b07a-7902bbac6374/LesleyYounge+-+Lesley+Younge.jpg The Editor's Corner - Meet the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 5: Motherhood Contributors - Lesley Younge Lesley Younge is a writer and educator based in Silver Spring, Maryland. She debuted as an author in March 2023 with two books for young people. Nearer My Freedom is a middle school found verse novel that uses Olaudah Equiano’s acclaimed autobiography as source text. A-Train Allen, her first picture book, was the Grand Prize Winner of the Sleeping Bear Press Own Voices, Own Stories award. A fellow of the Hurston/Wright Foundation and Anaphora Literary Arts, Lesley’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in recent issues of West Trade Review, Full Bleed, Midnight & Indigo and The Plentitudes. Her work for adults centers the fractured experiences of women and mothers, as well as the literal and imagined places where sanctuary can be found. She protects her peace through writing, meditation, yin yoga, and tending plants. 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I am a Journalist and a Writer from Venezuela, currently based in Ireland since 9 years ago. I am passionate about writing and researching topics related to Black Women, especially everything linked to Black People from Latin America. I am a social activist interested in equality, LGBTQ+, racism, and xenophobia. I am constantly expressing my point of view through my writing, which is generally about social topics that are not so comfortable to talk about on a daily basis. My principal mission as a writer is to create that question mark; about topics that people normally think they have clear and understood. I want people to recognize that not everything is black and white but instead there's a lot of nuances. I have a previous writing background in Spanish language, writing theatre plays, and press including: TV, newspapers, social media, and magazines. 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