“I’m exploiting you. For your brains, your beauty, your talent.” As a Black woman in STEM, I’ve heard a lot of bullshit. It would have...

As I sat on the porch of my apartment building this morning, I saw my direct deposit hit before my eyes. 8 months into graduate school...

To set the record straight, I was always working harder than my white classmates. Doing research by my second semester, spending hours a...

Being a Black woman so early in my career, I often feel hypervisible and invisible at the same time. Wanting to attract career...

Rene Canady, Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering and French Minor, Cum Laude. Nearly six months after graduation, I struggle to find...

Dissociative disorder is a superpower where you have the tendency to transcend the current state of being. My therapist made me aware...

With smooth pink lips and cocoa skin, it is no wonder that I swaddle the attention of many. However, the type of attention I receive is...

As someone with 4c hair, I grew up under the impression that my hair had to be in some foreign form to be managed. Between receiving my...

And I must write my truth before I get to anyone else’s #BioengineeringKillsBlackPeople Racially biased algorithms operate according to a...

On my first day I pulled up to the Friendship community church with a fanny pack, Black Health Matters tee, and velvet midi skirt. I was...

It's 2020. Stop asking how I am. I am traumatized and have been retraumatized. A movement co-opted by opportunists. June 1st, a million...

While the stay-at-home order initially agitated my internal alarm system, I eventually appreciated the clarity from social isolation. I...

So I was an invited guest a lecture on health disparities in April 2020. The professor let me tweak his slides, spend time discussing my...

1. Crying 2. Not Getting Help Just because my pain is outward, does not mean that something is more wrong with me than you. Let me...

I believe in flowers- In marigolds, daisies, in posies I believe in hope in the midst of extreme places Have you ever seen a witch hazel...

There are a lot of reasons people are taking smaller trips these days. They are more flexible with work and class schedules, less...

While I previously had tortured myself by spending a night in a tent with a new friend, I certainly had not put myself deep in the woods...