Letter #301

Dear stranger,   I’ve found someone who I’m genuinely afraid to lose. I didn’t realize how important he was to me until recently. I’ve purposefully created distance. I told myself that he might find someone new and that’s okay. But without me noticing, he’d become the most important person in my life. Sometimes, I love… Continue reading Letter #301

Letter #313

Content Warnings: anxiety, emotional abuse, abandonment, depression, parental trauma   Dear Shugarrr, Yolanda is in a state of grief. She simply does not know how to feel. Not for herself, but for my siblings who lost their father, or is it just a man they know in the abstract? To be honest, Yolanda and her… Continue reading Letter #313

Letter #315

Content Warnings: self-deprecation, internalized colorism   Dear Shugarrr, These days when I’m online, I see content made around beautiful women who are poor or in poor conditions. You hear statements like “oh, she’s so beautiful.”I’m not being jealous or anything, but the truth is that people excuse beautiful people for anything and everything. They make… Continue reading Letter #315

Letter #287

Content warnings: stress Journal 5 I truly don’t know how to keep myself together. Today was evidence that my procrastination has gotten out of hand. I had a set schedule, yet I found myself pushing off the simplest tasks farther and farther—even simple things, like doing my laundry or sending an email. It seems like… Continue reading Letter #287

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