M.L. Desir's Blog, page 40
January 8, 2019
Why are we talking about R Kelly in 2019 when there are so many other pressing issues?
Dream Hampton‘s 6-part Lifetime TV series “Surviving R Kelly” has brought it all up again when it aired this past week. This is a very divisive issue in the Black Community. Because it divides those who value the health and safety of black women and girls from those who don’t. And it’s painful to see who falls on which side.
Every few years, someone sounds the alarm about R Kelly. Jim DeRogatis has an extensive archive of meticulously researched articles on Kelly that detail the...
January 6, 2019
Rejection Therapy via Twitter
Indeed. This so needed to be reblogged! It makes perfect sense!
2018 Top 5: #5- Vampires and Sex: An Ageless (And Odd) Combination
Vampires. Need I say more? Well, I could, but I won’t.
January 4, 2019
NO FEE Submission call + interview – Ink&Nebula, DEADLINE: Feb. 1, 2019
Ink&Nebula is a new poetry journal “for established voices (Ink) and holding particular space for emerging ones (Nebula).” They accept submissions from both published (Ink submission) and previously unpublished poets (Nebula submission). By previously unpublished they mean “poets who do not have work that has been published by someone else – publishing on your own personal blogs or social media pages and other forms of self-publishing is ok.”
I wondered how and why this poetr...
January 2, 2019
Is Haiti Awakening to Change?
For months, an anti-corruption movement has been growing, aided by social media and peaceful street protests. But tensions are rising as the government turns to repression.
An Op-Ed piece by Jake Johnston for The New York Times.
It started with a few keystrokes in a living room in Montreal. Gilbert Mirambeau Jr., a Haitian filmmaker and writer, took to Twitter on Aug. 14 to post a photo of himself, blindfolded, holding a piece of cardboard with a simple question written o...
When did Black start?
I have a love-hate relationship with Walt Disney’ Pictures’s The Princess and the Frog. It was the only Disney film that I can remember following from production to release; I remember when the titular princess was named Maddy before her name was changed to Tiana.
In case it’s not obvious why I was so excited about this film, I’ll state it outright: It was to be the first movie to feature a Black Disney Princess.
The story is good enough; the message (that family a...
January 1, 2019
Happy Independence Day, Haiti!
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Konstitisyon se papie, bayonet se fe. – The constitution is paper, bayonets are steel.[image error]
Oh, and a Happy New Year to friends, readers, and followers![image error]
December 31, 2018
2018 Year-End Reflection – Menu Style – Let’s Start Celebrating!
First, thank you for visiting! 
December 30, 2018
My 2018 recommended reading list
Woo hoo! One of my short stories made it to this list!
December 27, 2018
How Cancer Cells Communicate — And How We Can Slow Them Down
Cancer cells communicate with each other and coordinate their movement throughout the body. But this process can be interrupted. In this TED Talk, Hasini Jayatilaka, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, shares her work on an innovative method to stop cancer cells from communicating — and halt their fatal ability to spread.
THIS IS COOL. I WANT TO LEARN SOMETHING ELSE, TOO!Video via – TED Talks
