Every now and again I see memes floating around, denoting how no one was with you shooting at the gym or how your friends will invest in all the name brands but not buy your products and I have had people explicitly ask me to the address thinking I would be on the side of friends needing to support their friends businesses. Sis, I am so very sorry but I am not with this rhetoric. Within the bounds of a healthy relationship, friends and family support in various other ways that a customer can never provide. Many of us coming
friendships
I recently re-read James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk. I sat on panel at SXSW with Barry Jenkins, Oscar
Why do we believe that cutting ourselves off from the people who care about us, calling it something like “I’m
Emotional maturity. I’ve spoken about this before on how emotional maturity will help you avoid fuckboys. Packaging advice through discussions
Being petty is now a thing of honor. Blame it on the rise of social media, more specifically Twitter where
Somewhere a long the line of having a YouTube channel and starting this #SmartBrownGirl movement, folks have deemed me worth of them asking for my advice. Originally this started out as content for my #AskJouelzy videos, but what I noticed was that I was fielding a lot of the same questions with a very similar narrative. The narrative that every person that their situation was the spectacularly different from every one else's and that they had did/done everything that was to do, met ever person there was to meet and they were at the bottom of the barrel in their
Part of being a #SmartBrownGirl is always striving to do better, even in areas that are not easy to confront.
I thought I would repost this old blog, about my experience with having a friend seek my support in them
Another personal post. This one is real to me, I re-read it and it brought back so many emotions and