HeyJaredDesiree's Divine Inspiration
Through poetry, short stories, and scholarly research, I delve into themes of unapologetic Blackness, gender, justice, and faith, seeking to bring divine inspiration, spiritual affirmation, and radical transformation to all who engage with my work.
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Being Loved Out Loud: The Problem of Desiring Fat Women in Secrecy (opens the original)
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Growing up fat, I learned two contradictory truths. I am both hypervisible and invisible at the same-dang-time. My size, rolls, and folds made me uncomfortably visible and that hyper-visibility almost always meant scrutiny. My size also made me feel invisible because my feelings were ignored when I was bullied for my size, so I learned to shrink and to take up less space. As a fat woman, I learned that my body could be impossible not to see and simultaneously something people refused to look at.
The Opposite of Slow Burn (opens the original)
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If My Body is An Archive, Then My Three Grays Testify (opens the original)
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I recently took down my braids after about 5 weeks of bussdown boho fulani flipover braids (iykyk). When I took them down I had product build up which is pretty natural but the most shocking finding is that I had about three grey hairs one on the right, one on the left, and one right smack dab-in-the-middle of the top of my head. I started to freak out. I told my partner and he said, “It’s a sign of wisdom.” I signed in regret or maybe relief. Either way, I felt like I was succumbing to some sor
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