by Tasha Fierce | Nov 14, 2019 | capitalism, disability, musings of a black femme, racism & white supremacy
i was going to write about all the difficult lessons i’m learning this scorpio season about fluid boundaries and respecting others’ wholeness at the same time as you respect your own. but then i crashed back into depression after turning my attention to...
by Tasha Fierce | Oct 22, 2019 | musings of a black femme, talkin' greasy
this isn’t about anything, i just need to get some shit down. still don’t have a job/income. i’m in a “hiring process” rn for this remote writing job and i’ve been putting a lot of my energies towards manifesting that. but it is...
by Tasha Fierce | Sep 23, 2019 | musings of a black femme, talkin' greasy, writing on writing
TL;DR: Support my work on Patreon. This isn’t going to be anywhere near as coherent as my last little update on post-graduation life, but that’s okay. Everything in me would rather not write again until things get better, so just getting these thoughts...
by Tasha Fierce | Aug 4, 2019 | capitalism, disability, magical depressive realism, musings of a black femme, racism & white supremacy, talkin' greasy, writing on writing
Society—other people, systems, institutions, culture—has so much more power over our lives than the average person gives it credit for. Acknowledging its outsized influence is devastating at first, incompatible as it is with a vision of the individual as master of...
by Tasha Fierce | Jun 22, 2019 | magical depressive realism, musings of a black femme, poetry
everything from then on out was going through the motions. everything from going to work every day to saving for the future to breathing was a charade performed as defense against the inevitable a tired eye closed to the light of the oncoming train a battered heart...
by Tasha Fierce | Mar 6, 2019 | musings of a black femme
It’s been pretty somber in the Fierce household this fall and winter. I would say I’m approaching burnout, but I know that boundary was crossed long ago. I’m fueled by sunk-cost fallacy at this point. I don’t want to be in school anymore,...