Election 2020

Posted on November 4, 2020November 4, 2020 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

This country showed what it has always been in this election cycle. Even as we still await final news and counts, I keep coming back to this one thought. Online I see colleagues and people I admire talk about how heartbroken they are with these results and how close it is, how revealing it is […]... Read More

LockDown Diaries Pt. 9 : My First Juneteenth

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

Friday was my first Juneteenth. Or should I say, Friday was the first day that I celebrated Juneteenth. I first heard about Juneteenth when I was 22. Growing up, it wasn’t a day I had ever heard of. I mean I had heard of the whole phenomenon of how our enslaved ancestors in parts of […]... Read More

LockDown Diaries Pt. 8: Something Like Hope

Posted on June 16, 2020 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

I am not a morning person by any stretch of imagination. The label “morning person” would never apply to me. But nevertheless, Friday morning I found myself getting up early with the goal of heading downtown because I really wanted to see Black Lives Matter Plaza. I wanted to see the site of all these […]... Read More

LockDown Diaries Pt.7: Our Lives Matter

Posted on May 29, 2020 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

In the midst of a pandemic, Black people still have to deal with the danger that comes with simply being Black. I guess I just hoped that maybe one part of racism might die down as we will deal with another crisis. How naïve of me, clearly. It’s tiring. I don’t think some people -read […]... Read More

LockDown Diaries Pt. 6: This Dating Thing

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

Dating during the quarantine is trash, just on a different day. These days I don’t usually like to get too too personal and talk about my love life. But I have been seeing a lot of conversations recently about how, for better or worse, dating has been for singles during this time. When this first started […]... Read More

LockDown Diaries Pt. 5: Baby Boomer Parents

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

Tuesday marked 3 weeks to the day since I last talked to my Mom. Our conversation was her confirming what my sister had told me – that she had decided to take a road-trip to Mississippi to visit my aunts, her sisters (with a detour in Chicago to pick up one of her older sisters […]... Read More

LockDown Diaries Pt.4: Is it Weird That I’m Okay?

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

A friend of mine texted me Friday just to check in and see how I’ve been “coping” being quarantined. In fact he specifically asked me if I’ve been going crazy having to be inside or if I was out and about. It was funny to me because like my last post reflected – I’ve definitely […]... Read More

LockDown Diaries Pt.3: WTH Is Wrong With People?

Posted on April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

I’m writing from a place of anger today. We’re on the 5th week of being quarantined and I just don’t understand people who don’t take what’s going on seriously. I can’t figure out if it’s willful ignorance, an invincibility complex, or simply selfishness that has people not following guidelines and basically behaving and saying things […]... Read More

LockDown Diaries Pt.2: Over Preparation is my Panic Language

Posted on April 9, 2020April 17, 2020 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

So ever since this pandemic broke out I’ve credited myself on being pretty calm outside of some anxiety of the fear of people I know and love getting sick. But I’ve realized that while I have been calm on the outside, my fear and anxiety have been expressed in other ways. Not in over-indulging in […]... Read More

LockDown Diaries Pt.1: Shit is Real

Posted on March 30, 2020April 17, 2020 by Tasha Rose Leave a comment

The governor officially declared that as of 8pm tonight, the state is on lockdown. So essentially no one should be leaving the house unless it is for work as an essential employee, to get groceries and/or medication, to exercise – preferably around their own neighborhood and with those they live with – and/or to take […]... Read More

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