Staying In Your Lane is A Free Action And I Beg You Use It This past week was SGDQ-Summer Games Done Quick-which is an annual event put on by GamesDoneQuick to raisemoney for charity. The charity of choice is MSF: Doctors Without Borders, which honestly? Is one of my all…

Don’t worry rabid fanboys: I still like the game, save your angry tweets So, I’m 28 hours and 21 bosses (including Godrick, eat shit nerd) in to Elden Ring, and I gotta say: I really enjoy it. Having the freedom to explore a vast and beautiful world created by the…

Existing as a Marginalized Person, but Not Wanting to Always Be For-Profit Note: This piece will contain imagery depicting racism, and a lot of conversation about racism, sexism, general capitalism in action, and mental health. At this point everyone has seen/heard/read the news about how Naomi Osaka has withdawn from…

There’s Bleaching, and Then There’s Just Hating the Skin You’re In I finally got around to reading some of the pieces that I had stowed away in my Medium inbox, many of which are BHM centric and thusly, focused around race. The last one in my inbox was this piece…

Rebranding to Avoid Responsibility One of the most interesting things that always happens during Black History Month (happy Black History Month by the way!) …

Under the Thumb of ‘Appreciation’ but Not ‘Gain’ We need to have a talk about how many of our white colleagues view handing us trophies, awards, severely low pay (+ visibility I guess), and cookies as the same as community growth, opportunities, and well-being. Let me explain. Over the last…

How Being Impartial Is Our Greatest Downfall We really need to have a conversation about what it truly means to be ‘impartial.’ You hear and see a lot of companies toss that around a great deal: how they have to remain ‘impartial’ to politics, or ‘impartial’ so that they don’t…

Watching and Observing Nothing I sit, as people I look up to, all the time make fun of me because ‘you always got something to say, you always tweeting, you always running your mouth, you always vocal’ who then go out and give accolades and praise to the same commentary…

This is a longer than normal, pretty heavy piece, just a FYI. I remember the day I ‘knew’ beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was a leftist. I wasn’t always like this-I once upon a time believed in silliness like ‘reverse-racism’, or how ‘black folx could be racists…