This summer was supposed to be the recovery. Instead, it’s the spread. — Sometimes I think we’re living in an alternate, dark timeline that went wayward. This is why I refuse to watch the TV show The Handmaid’s Tale. Why should I watch a show about a dystopian nightmare when it feels like we’re living in one currently? I don’t need to see…

The fact that the whole world is on time-out is an opportunity to make some changes — Normal is dead. There is no normal. Normal packed up its bags and left the keys on the kitchen counter. This Covid-19 pandemic has turned the whole world upside down, and there is truly no going back. It’s like when you shave off your eyebrows one too many times and…

We’re so often the only ones ready to call people out when necessary — The dumpster fire that is the state of affairs keeps raging, with no real end in sight. The coronavirus pandemic is showing how unprepared we are, around the world, for real crises. It is especially showing America’s underskirt. That’s what Nigerians call the slip you wear under your clothes: underskirt…

The coronavirus pandemic is no excuse to forget your home training — We have found ourselves in some interesting times, where everything is topsy-turvy and nothing makes sense. Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is a crisis layered on top of all the other madness we’ve had to deal with—for example, there is a locust invasion in Kenya right now. …

Somewhere along the way, they told us our glitter was ashes. They told us that what we touched turned to dust, not gold. They convinced us that we bleed as punishment not purpose-fulfillment. Somewhere along the way, our magic was minimized. They said we were ordinary, not walking proof of…