PinnedJherineGentlemen Prefer Blondes: White Women and Unearned Beauty“I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that…·4 min read·Jul 11, 2020--27--27
Jherine“Secrets I Have Kept From You”I. There was a watch. Black leather band, cracked and worn and fraying. at the buckle. The face was bruised and the minute hand shuddered…·3 min read·Feb 16, 2022----
JherineBlessed Are the MeekI have been conditioned to have infinite capacity for hope. I was raised Protestant and had a predisposition to an inflated sense of…·4 min read·Jan 5, 2021----
JherineGrief EatingOnce, when I was very young, my grandmother told me a story about a group of women called “grief eaters.” These women were always of an…·4 min read·Aug 30, 2020----
JherineThe MinstrelWhat is a minstrel? When I google blackface (which I did prior to writing this and only scrolled down half the page before almost losing…·5 min read·Feb 4, 2019----