Tag: life
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Finding Peace: How Black Women are Leaving Corporate Jobs for a Softer Life
In today’s fast-paced and achievement-oriented society, quitting is often seen as a sign of weakness or failure. For Black women in particular, this portrayal encourages and even requires us to persevere, fight until the end, uphold perfection, and become magical. However, over the past few years, Black women have not succumbed to this pressure; instead,…
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A NYers Guide to Staying Fly and Warm During The Winter season
New Yorkers are some of the most trendy, swaggyiest people (if I say so myself) and one thing’s for sure, cold weather does not stop a great outfit! To get through this seemingly long winter season, here’s a list of ways New Yorkers stay fly and warm during the coldest time of the year.
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Personal Preference: Money
Over this past week, I’ve been offered to post on Instagram promoting two dating apps. I normally wouldn’t sign up for a dating site, but since I’ve been given a free trial for a week; I figured I’d make an account and if I meet someone-cool. But other than completing my profile, I’m not going…
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Yellow “Crush on You” Lil’ Kim: and why her being a “regular” Black girl was and still is enough
She’s bold, and dynamic. Her sexual fluidity encourages me to be unapologetically sexy-no matter how uncomfortable others may seem(or how I perceive them to be.) And not to mention iconic. If the slut walk happened 20 years ago-lil Kim would most likely be the front runner of it! I think all of us had that…
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black, single, and broke, but i still love to travel
Over the past decade, traveling has become the new black. You see much more people catching flights, especially black people. Many are still discouraged from traveling though. I’ve heard everything from: “I don’t have anyone to go with,” “that seem like a place you go with your boo-and I don’t have one” “I don’t have…
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Sucker fOR Love
It’s that time of year again, and I can’t help but scowl. Valentines Day. Who came up with this day anyway? Valentines day in my economic opinion, is a marketing holiday. Think about it. If you ever worked retail, you know the months of January and February is “return season.” All the horrible gifts of…
Just a girl from Brooklyn 