by Tasha Fierce | Apr 18, 2021 | capitalism, media analysis, musings of a black femme, politics, racism & white supremacy, talkin' greasy, writing on writing
I’m in the midst of writing the proposal for MAGICAL DEPRESSIVE REALISM and I’ve been thinking about mainstream success, what it does to your perspective, what it requires you forsake and leave behind. In the social media microwave background are...
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 | Dec 19, 2018 | disability, my kind of crazy, talkin' greasy
CW: mental illness, suicide This week Kanye West and Chance the Rapper’s manager and some other folks decided to share a few thoughts on mental illness and medications that were less than ringing endorsements of the latter. In the midst of a Twitter rant against...
by Tasha Fierce | Sep 2, 2017 | talkin' greasy, writing on writing
Sometimes the magnitude of my lack of knowledge leaves me wordless. I wonder how it is to be so sure you have all the answers that you’re willing to write about basically any topic with little to no knowledge — confidently. How it is to write about, say,...
