Faces of Flawless: Our Sisters
Happy April, all! Women's History Month may have passed, but the ritual of honoring, acknowledging, and uplifting our fellow women is...
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Flawless Writes Blog
Flawless Writes Blog
Flawless Writes Blog
Mar 18, 2017
Tribute to the Self
It's arguable, whether there is a fair season to be a woman of color. We are construed as the strong, impermeable woman. The infallible,...
Feb 27, 2017
Brown Girls Talk Grammys
On February 12, the 59th Annual Grammy Awards took place. With Beyoncé’s pregnancy announcement earlier this month, and her nominations...
Feb 21, 2017
8 Real and Fictional Black Women Who Define "Bad and Boujee"
Doris Payne (The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne) This bad and boujee 86-year-old is a real-life, world-renowned jewel thief who has...
Feb 11, 2017
Moonlight: A Masterpiece for the Ages
With the 89th Academy Awards around the corner, Moonlight has been the talk of this award season. Barry Jenkins’ sophomore feature has...
Nov 30, 2016
Hollywood is Too Scared to Gamble
When people ask me if I want to follow my parents into showbiz, I imagine the moment I came home to find my mom in tears over her job. It...
Nov 11, 2016
A Letter to My Mother
Dear Mom, Every day you wake up, get dressed and go to work. You go to work where you don’t feel safe - as a woman and as a Puerto Rican....
Nov 11, 2016
i am real
do they see me Mama i wonder why you birthed me into this life destined to live with litany of strife it makes me want to cry bawl out my...
Nov 10, 2016
Untitled
I have never felt so scared to exist Not just in this place But in this body Brown body shaking Brown body breaking Brown body, don’t...
Nov 10, 2016
Nightmares
my spirit could not sustain the weight of the night each forecast the hideous heft of a nation’s hatred and abject apathy and so i...
Nov 10, 2016
Not My Beast To Claim
as Trump and the like celebrate and lie, with smiles on their faces, on their white, blood-stained sheets i hope they know they cannot...
Nov 9, 2016
November 9th
How the day should’ve gone: Text my family first thing in the morning, all caps all exclamation points: “WE DID IT!!!!!!!! WE FINALLY...
Nov 9, 2016
Tonight America
Tonight America is a cat-caller, lurking in the dark, gaze slanting in my direction, stealing ownership of my body with vicious words....
Nov 9, 2016
A Moment of Prayer
a moment of prayer for the non yt bodies who are told they are less for the bodies of little girls and grown women who are told their...
Nov 9, 2016
Red
I see my country become dotted with Red It bleeds over, state to state It makes my stomach churn Red marks Huge red marks Telling me...
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