Dear Nephew, I call you that because you are truly cherished (in a way that I doubt I could explain to you sufficiently in words). I am not particularly fond of you because your father abandoned your foetal-self, nor because we share the same DNA – here I could wax lyrical
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My Boyfriend Has A Girlfriend …
They are happy
He makes her sandwiches
She gets to smell his crisp scent, of nourishing nothingness
He gives her neck-kisses in the morning, tells her she is loved, he loves her and wishes her a great day
She gets to take him in
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Dear Black Men …
Dear Black Men: We love you; we need you. We know that it’s not easy to be a man. It’s not easy to be a woman, either; to be educated, career focussed, wanting to grow in love; be the other half that supports a family, supports a home. But we don’t know what it’s like...
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Rebuilding The Black Male Child – Masculinity
There is a lot that can be said about the negative impact of patriarchy within our society. Much of this will hinge on the effects that how men abuse their strength
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Rebuilding The Black Male Child – Patriarchy (Part 1)
We need to talk. We need to talk about why we live in a society that lives in fear of the actions of misguided men. We need to look at what we have been teaching our boys that brought us here
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Friends with Benefits
Friendships are a natural and integral part of anyone’s life. The not so silent gatekeepers of our conduct, partners in crime, and in some cases your friends are your family away from home. Friendships are usually standard
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Dating A Single Father, Myths and Misconceptions about Single Fathers …
I put the term ‘single father’ inside quotation marks because the concept of single parenting is not as clean-cut as we often think.
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Understand Men Better: Do Men Have Issues? Are They Even Real?
It's hard to be a man and when I say this I don’t mean to compare it to being a woman
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Vat & Sit
At what point do you and your person decide to take the leap into shacking up together? Is it a natural progression for any “committed relationship", I use this term loosely,
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I Miss That Kinda Love
I read a letter that a friend sent me the other day that spoke to so many truths and anxieties that I identify with when it comes to matters of the heart.