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Essay

Arguments worked out on the page — about craft, about storytelling, and about what a story owes the people it is drawn from.

5 entries

June 18, 2026

Building DIS/ORDERED

A short note on adapting lived experience for screen while protecting emotional truth.

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June 18, 2026

Holding Complexity Without Flattening It

Why I write toward contradiction, intimacy, and survival instead of easy answers.

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March 29, 2026

SENSITIVE

Talking to Ghosts: Survival, Guilt, and the Weight of Outliving Everyone You Love

On survivors guilt, isolation, and the complicated work of staying alive after repeated loss.

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July 3, 2024

SENSITIVE

Beyond Done

A commentary on burnout, collective fear, and the cost of waiting for permission to act.

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May 5, 2024

The Impact of Black Women Archetypes on Television

A longform essay on Mammy, Sapphire, Jezebel, and Magical Negro frameworks and their effects on Black women viewers.

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