Maame Blue 31/08/2018 Maame Blue 31/08/2018

the women who came before

There’s been a lot of looking backwards since I’ve been back.

04/09/2017 04/09/2017

the hair thing

So what exactly have I been preoccupied with? Oh I don’t know; dealing with my hair identity, my expat identity and my relationship status/identity.

03/04/2017 03/04/2017

a mall is a mall

People gathering in stressed collectives, listing all the things they think they need to buy; those shoes, that jacket, those potatoes.

12/08/2016 12/08/2016

not quite there yet

Lately I've been considering how I fit in. Or more accurately, how my blackness fits in with the whiteness I have grown accustomed to being surrounded by.

31/07/2016 31/07/2016

the hair step

This week I released myself from my braids. They had been in for way too long due to laziness and mental health struggles (see post on depression), and now I was ready for a change.