The Potty Mouth Granny

  • Social Media and the Illusion of Expertise

    Social media has been a wonderful thing, but it has a dark side. It has given millions of people a voice, which in many ways is beautiful. Folks who were once ignored can now tell their stories, share knowledge, and build community across miles and oceans. That kind of connection would have seemed like science…

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  • The Politics of My Hair

    We as Black women have a real complicated relationship with our hair. The texture and length of our hair have long been tied to ideas of beauty and social acceptance — especially when it’s judged as the “right” texture and the “right” length. Too often, those standards were never designed with us in mind, yet…

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  • Emotional Illiteracy

    I used to think most people are stupid because they lack empathy. But are they really stupid or just clueless? That thought came from a hard-earned place. I’ve always been able to have empathy for others and when you’ve spent years watching loss, watching people disappear, watching grief carve hollows in real lives, you start…

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  • Fear and Loathing of a Social Science

    Dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a fellow sociologist I had no idea my college major sociology was held in such contempt until I joined social media. Suddenly everybody had opinions about sociology, most of them loud, wrong, and proudly under-researched. I just blinked like, damn, y’all really are dumb. Yeah, that was pretty…

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  • Sunday Musings from Chicago

    So it’s 11:34am Chicago time and I am sitting here chilling, listening to the music of my youth with a pot of oxtails cooking and all is right in my universe for now. But I think too much as an ex told me so I am also sitting here thinking about the evolution of the…

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