I’m not the kind of blogger who gets invited to the super-cool events. But I was stoked to get an invite to the pre-opening of WONDER!
First, I WONDERed what WONDER! was. I knew it was a children’s store and that I was allowed to bring my kids to the blogger event. What more did I need to know beforehand? It’s not like when I was out covering a story for AP and I had to do some reporting before going to a press conference.… Read more ...
I got the email on a Monday. It was an invitation to be a guest on a nationally syndicated morning radio show to talk about my piece on The Huffington Post. Ack!
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I can do a live Q&A on train derailments, workplace shootings, multi-vehicle pile-ups and other breaking death and destruction. But talk live about my frustrations with white folks?
Gulp. Aiight.
I grilled the producer on the KD Bowe Morning Show’s format. Is the whole thing live? Will … Read more ...
I find it intriguing that I’m blogging for The Huffington Post’s BlackVoices section. Largely because I don’t see myself as someone who talks a lot about race.
When they asked if I wanted to write for them, I was like really? Me? Though I do talk frankly about my life, which obviously would include events and thoughts shaped by the color of my skin. Nevertheless, I find The Huffington Post experience quite fascinating. My first post about my on-again-off-again relationship with white people garnered a … Read more ...
And to think I almost stayed home.
It was Social Media Week in Chicago, the local slice of a global conference on all things social media. I had done the mental gymnastics to figure out which sessions I could attend considering my two anklebiters and Hubby’s long work days.
There were sessions I really wanted to go to such as Journalism in the Age of Tweet, How to Engage Audiences and Have Fun Doing It, and The Power of Social Media for … Read more ...
There’s big things brewing in the She’sWrite world. Today I had my first post released on The Huffington Post.
I’m quite excited and nervous about it. It’s about my conflicted emotions of perpetually being a brown girl in a mostly white neighborhood. Or like I put it in the piece: “My on-again-off-again relationship with white people.”
A friend of mine said it was brave to write so honestly, but I didn’t even think about that, I just kind of… wrote. I still don’t think … Read more ...