Logo created by Jordan Ireland.
Live in poetry.
Logo created by Jordan Ireland.
Live in poetry.
Hello! My name is Kara Elise Ireland, and I am an author, poet, educator and doctoral student. I am the author of Journals, Walk A Mile, The Silence, The Game Plan, and Ghosts.
I grew up in a Black neighborhood and attended Black schools all my life, but a predominantly white institution (PWI) is where I embraced my Blackness.
I thought maybe it wasn’t that serious if medical professionals were telling me so and undermining my experiences. … A Black woman was the first to recognize, affirm, and respond to my pain.
In reading Hood Feminism, I was forced to reckon with my own biases and abuses I have accepted and disregarded in my past.
I’ve been told several times that I’m “too good of a friend,” and someone didn’t want to run the risk of losing me if something were to happen, but not work out. I am not disposable, so they’d rather pursue someone who is.
Anyone can read and enjoy my books because love is universal. There’s a need for LGBT representation in popular media. I want to be at the forefront of it. Here’s why.
After dinner and a couple hours of TV, Daddy passed by the couch and whispered something in my ear: I got something to show you, he said, now come here and don’t make a fuss.
Little Black boys witnessed their role in the equation and replicated it. Some would grow up and fulfill it when it was no longer a game.
Lyla was devastated by her failure to establish clear boundaries. Somehow, she’d given him the green light. She wrote about situations like these all the time; how could she let it happen to her?
It’s one thing to temporarily fall in love with anyone who is nice to you, even if you know you’ll never see them again (cheers to you, pretty girl who complimented my earrings), which, granted, I am prone to. But it’s another to spend time in an intimate sphere with someone you’re mutually attracted to – for them to leave without a trace.
You cannot expect changed behavior without speaking the fuck up about what’s bothering you.
