Published in ILLUMINATION·PinnedMember-onlyA Short Bio of Who I am: I’m Not Quite Sure Who That is… I Edit this Story OftenWith a topic reading lists of stories I write about — Hello, I am Jaja. I am from the beautiful emerald isle of the Caribbean. Montserrat.Writing4 min read
Published in Are You Out There·PinnedMember-onlyBlack Supremacy against White People is on the RiseEveryone is acting like it's Ok to be a black racist. The goal is to create “discomfort.” Creating puppets from white guilt. — Black supremacy is just as bad and dangerous as white supremacy. Wikipedia defines black supremacy as: “a racial supremacist belief which maintains that black people are superior to people of other races.” Black supremacy is just as bad and dangerous as white supremacy. It looks like doing and saying things…Racism5 min read
Published in The Orange Journal·PinnedGod is a WomanDon’t get mad, they call Her a creator for a reason — I grew up Christian. If you look at the logic of the bible, even as a child, I always thought it made more sense that God was a woman. My own Catholic mother would call entertaining this concept blasphemy. So as a little girl, I never dared to ask questions…Feminism3 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated·PinnedTrue Story: I Wasn’t Sure if I was Gay but Being Gay is not a Lifestyle Choice!The day I met an openly gay person for the first time. — I was raised thinking being gay was a lifestyle. I am from the Caribbean and people from the islands are really against being gay. So it was no surprise that I thought this way too. I was raised in a strict fanatically Christian home and was taught homosexuality was a sin! There were no openly gay people on my…LGBTQ5 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated·PinnedMember-onlyBreaking News: ILLUMINATION Publication Accepts Already Published Stories!This is amazing news for Medium writers. — ILLUMINATION must be the place for all illuminating souls. Although they prefer drafts, they are the only publication I know who accepts stories already published. I was always frustrated that publications needed unpublished drafts as one of the criteria to publish my work. …Writer5 min read
Jul 29Member-onlyWill Smith Finally Apologized to Chris Rock for Slapping him.But he didn’t explain why he did it. — Opinion1 min readSnapshot of Will Smith on InstagramWill Smith Finally Apologized to Chris Rock for Slapping him.But he didn’t explain why he did it.----
Jul 25Member-onlyPronouns: Do “They” have Multiple Personality Disorder?🤣The grammatical confusion in calling 1 person ‘them’ — I'm going to preface this story by saying I’m not into gay bashing. Sometimes the LGBTQ+ community is ridiculous. Like a family, I get to love ‘them’ and tell ‘them’ when ‘they're’ not making any sense. In my story “Pronouns: People Can Refer to Themselves However They’d Like… But can’t…LGBTQ3 min read
Jul 22Member-onlySome of These Gen Z Kids don’t Know Shit about Good Films…Why I still own VHS tapes — We have 2 HUGE shelves from floor to ceiling of VHS tapes because when DVDs came out people were GIVING tapes away. It was like the Gods threw 100 dollar bills from the sky and no one saw the money but us 2nd hand stores like Goodwill were selling them…Film5 min read
Published in The Power of Poetry·Jul 19Member-onlyPoetry: Give UpAbout divorce — Poem1 min readPhoto by Nate Neelson on UnsplashPoetry: Give UpAbout divorce----8
Published in IzThatSo·Jul 11Member-onlyThis is Why Men Don’t Want to Marry Ho’s!Are you stupid? — “I just watched an online news report about some woman giving tips on how to trap an NBA player. She said, “They are stupid, and they don’t use condoms.”- Julius Evans *Definition: A “ho” means slut or whore…Opinion3 min read