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Bassey Ikpi
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American-Nigerian, ex-poet, current writer, constant mental health advocate (The Siwe Project and No Shame Day), underachieving overachiever and memoir procrastinator (Harper Perennial 2019).
2/04/18 9:30AM
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“So, what do you want to talk about today?” the thin Asian woman across from me asks. She asks this twice a week…
1/25/18 9:30AM
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I deactivated my Twitter and Facebook three months ago. I told myself it was because I needed to concentrate on…
1/15/18 10:00AM
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I wasn’t the least bit interested in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend when I first happened upon it on the CW. If the title…
12/23/17 9:15AM
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Many people look for different ways to minimize the time they spend on their devices, but for those of us who manage…
12/10/17 10:13AM
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The new World Trade Center in all its grotesque, sanitized and bleached whiteness still makes me a bit sick. I…
10/27/17 9:00AM
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Last week I watched Demi Lovato’s YouTube documentary, Simply Complicated, chronicling her well-publicized drug…
10/19/17 10:00AM
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Today was one of those “Barely get dressed” kind of days. Today was one of those “You gotta get out of the house”…
9/28/17 10:00AM
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Terrible made-for-TV movies are my anti-drug and have been since I was a child. Back then they were often called…
9/05/17 9:00AM
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I’ve always loved to dance. I’d spend hours transfixed whenever dancers from the ballet or Soul Train were on TV. We…
8/22/17 10:00AM
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Some people just aren’t built to be rock stars. The big audiences, the grueling travel, the long stretches away from…
8/10/17 9:00AM
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Often, after an intense therapy appointment, instead of sitting in my car, folded across the steering wheel before I…
7/21/17 10:30AM
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Editor’s Note: Trigger warning, this post talks about the subject of suicide, and was written before the death of…
7/14/17 10:00AM
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The salon was busy when I walked in. There was the chatter of stylists gossiping with clients, the whirl of hair…
7/04/17 9:00AM
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The last few weeks had been good; the fog that spent the last year following me had risen back into the clouds, and…
6/13/17 9:00AM
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5/26/17 10:00AM
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Waking up to tragedies of some measure has become the norm over the years. Lately it feels as if every day there’s…
5/10/17 9:00AM
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4/25/17 10:00AM
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