The Potty Mouth Granny

  • Mélusine: The Devil’s Daughter, the Serpent Woman, and Another Man Who Couldn’t Mind His Damn Business

    Every now and then I fall down one of my historical rabbit holes and come across a woman—real, legendary, mythical, whatever—who makes me stop and say, now who the hell is this? Today that woman is Mélusine. And baby, Mélusine has a story. She has been called the Devil’s daughter, a fairy, a water spirit,…

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  • Ain’t No Apology in My Story

    I can’t speak for all Black women, but I know this much—I don’t owe a motherfucker an explanation about anything in my life. I was a mother to two children by the age of twenty-one. I received welfare assistance. I didn’t get my GED until I was twenty-seven. I know what it means to start…

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  • Lady Day

    The way Billie Holiday was hounded by the government literally until the day she died is one of the biggest tragedies in Black history. When she sang “Strange Fruit,” that wasn’t just a song. It was an indictment. A slow, haunting autopsy of America. Written by Abel Meeropol, but carried into the bloodstream of the…

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  • Wild Women History

    My reading project for the past two years has been diving into the history of women — and it’s been fascinating. What I’ve learned is that women have been treated like shit for thousands of years, regardless of race or socioeconomic status. If you’re a woman, you’re treated like you ain’t worth two dead flies.…

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