Love Letters
My newsletter. Relationships advice, cultural commentary, insider updates about Portugal, and the occasional photograph from Lisbon. It’s personal. That’s the point.
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Columns
My column cover relationships, sexuality, gender, and culture with the same combination of evidence and accessibility that defines everything I write. I was the first Black American woman with a nationally syndicated magazine and newspaper sex column in print. My column ran in Metro International Newspapers’ U.S. editions (New York, Boston, and elsewhere) reaching 1.7 million readers. I also wrote a column for the lifestyle publication Nerve, a company that ultimately sold to the Walt Disney Company.
Books
Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak (contributor)
Eds. Larry Smith & Rachel Fershleiser. Harper Perennial / HarperCollins, 2009. The follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning. Fellow contributors include Elizabeth Gilbert, Dan Savage, and Armistead Maupin.
Migration and Immigration: A Global View (contributor)
Eds. Maura I. Toro-Morn & Marisa Alicea. Greenwood Press, 2004. Part of the A World View of Social Issues series.
On Purpose: Rhetorical Analysis of Nonfiction (contributor)
Nanna Flindt Quist. Gyldendal Uddannelse, Denmark, 2009. My writing was selected as a rhetorical analysis example in this Danish academic textbook, a quiet credential that says something about the precision of my prose.
Selected Articles & Essays
The Guardian · NBC News · Al Jazeera · Fast Company · Glamour · Health Magazine · Talking Points Memo · HuffPost · Mashable · Time Out New York · Open Secrets Magazine · USDA Rural Cooperatives Magazine
My co-authored white paper Three Acts of Justice (2024), developed with Harvard University Fellow Rachel Florman, provided a rights-based reproductive justice framework. Years before they materialized, we predicted threats to 14th Amendment protections including birthright citizenship and marriage equality years. We proactively provided tools to equip advocates, artists, policymakers, and others.