Feature: Taylor Johnson-Gordon, Food Healer, Herbalist, & Urban Gardener

On centering Black girls & women through nutrition, herbalism, & garderning, healing as resistance, and cooking intuitively

All, Feminism & Womanism, Jade's FavesJade T. PerryFebruary 7, 2017black culture, Black women, cooking, food justice, healing, vegan, vegetarian

Because I'm Not Solely Writing About DT for the Next 4 Years

It is important to also resist being denied the space to tell the fullness of our stories - imagining, as Toni Morrison did, our creative works without speaking directly to an all-consuming gaze

All, Arts & Entertainment, Lifestyle, Sheerly Shenanigans, Social Justice, WritingJade T. PerryJanuary 18, 2017#52essays2017, black culture, creative nonfiction, toni morrison, writing

Creation in the Time of Death

On living and grieving. Creating yet surrounded by death.

All, Culture, Feminism & Womanism, Social Justice, WritingJade T. PerryAugust 5, 2016black culture, Blackness, identity, Joyce Queweay, Korryn Gaines, Skye Mockabee, writing

Chance the Rapper Got Oil*: What I'm Learning about Faith via Coloring Book

Oil* - The concept of 'having oil' occurs in many Black church contexts and is attached to both the practice and the praxis of anointing someone with oil. To 'have oil' means to carry a special anointing or grace to do whatever it is that you have been charged to do.

All, Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Faith & Spirituality, For the Culture, UncategorizedJade T. PerryMay 16, 2016Black church, black culture, Chance the Rapper, faith, gospel, hip hop, music, spirituality

The Wiz Realness Recap!

Last night, the melanin pop-age was present and accounted for on NBC's live airing of The Wiz! Shanice Williams made her debut as Dorothy and the cast was star-studded, including Uzo Aduba, Queen Latifah, Ne-yo, Elijah Kelley, Amber Riley, David Allen Grier, Mary J Blige, (Mutha) Stephanie Mills, and Common. Seeing the representation of Black Theater, Black talent, and Black culture live on NBC... gave me my life! It was a magical 3 hours. This recap is written in dialect, unlike many of my other pieces... because only AAVE will do it justice. #SayinithowIfeelit.

All, Arts & Entertainment, For the Culture, UncategorizedJade T. PerryDecember 4, 2015black culture, david allen grier, mary j blige, neyo, queen latifah, recap, the wiz, the wiz live, theater