I spend a lot of my time on the web. Sometimes, more than I intend to. Most people around me in the United States do. … Read More»

When I think about how These Waters Run Deep came to be, I take myself back to where I was in my life when it all came about. I was living close to Riverdale at the time. … Read More»

These Waters Run Deep is a multimedia journey into the lives and struggle of Afro-descendant women. … Read More»

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I lost my sense of home at age 17. My parents decided, without much input from myself and my siblings. They moved to Albany and I stayed in the Bronx with my godmother. … Read More»

How might it have been different for you if, on your first menstrual day, your mother given you a bouquet of flowers and taken you to lunch, and then the two of you had gone to meet your father at the … Read More»

I remember vaguely as an elementary school child not liking my given name 'Carmen'. I couldn't quite explain why, but the closest I get is that it didn't feel like who I was. … Read More»

I asked a group of 99.9% [white] women doing birth work this question, as it really is one of the most important to me: … Read More»

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