Gyasi’s second novel possesses many similarities to her debut novel, Homegoing, despite being a stand-alone text— meaning the two texts are independent of each other. Both texts feature: Ghanaian immigration (albeit through different lenses, namely, voluntary migration vs. involuntary migration), titles that serve as major themes, and motifs that tie into each other. Gifty’s mother, […]
I’ve been listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast Revisionist History for a few years now, but never read any of his works before. Full disclosure, I’m still paying off student loans so I checked out my local library to see which of his works were available to borrow. Of course there was a months long waiting […]
Upon accepting her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the film Fences in 2017, Viola Davis said the following: “People ask me all the time, ‘What kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola?’ And I say, ‘Exhume those bodies.’ Exhume those stories — the stories of the people who dreamed big and never […]
Surprise, surprise. There’s one dominating voice when it comes to love in books, media, and relationships–men. Of course this is not entirely surprising given the patriarchal system most of us have been living and operating within for most if not all of our lives. In her book all about love, bell hooks writes about how […]
Overview Social mobility is not as attainable as it once was. The decrease in upward mobility, as Reeves argues in his book, is the result of the upper middle class’s direct actions that rig the socio-economic playing field in their favor. Defining he upper-middle class as those individuals who form the top quintile of the […]
*No copyright infringement intended for any images used in this post* I was baptized and raised Catholic. As a result, the number three has a hold on me. It represents the Holy Trinity. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. They are not three separate gods, but one true God with […]
I cannot express enough how long I’ve wanted to travel to Colombia. I did a project on Colombia in undergrad, and fell in love with the culture. I interviewed a Colombian woman who ran a business in Costa Rica while I was studying abroad there. She told me about the flower festival in Medellin with […]
A friend and fellow co-worker invited me on a ski trip with Tour de Sport earlier in the fall. I figured, let’s do it. So I paid the $370 I needed to secure my spot and when the time came in February, I went. We arrived on a Friday evening at the Ramada Inn in […]
On October 30, 2018 I attended day 1 of the Diaspora Roadshow put on by the organization Act4Accountability. I learned about the opportunity from a friend, and former college pal I met back in undergrad at the University of Maryland–College Park (GO TERPS!). The event was two days in length, but I only attended the […]
So in case you missed it, I once wrote a post about how Groupon was my gym membership here. Well, now I have to say ClassPass is my health and wellness membership. I attended an essential oils class on January 20, 2019 at extendYoga located at 12106 Wilkins Ave in Rockville, Maryland. The name of […]