Everybody’s My People

To most of the world, I am merely just another black guy. Fine. They can have their opinion and I can have mine.

Please Stop Telling Me How To Dress!

In response to the recent opinion piece by Bijou Basque, “Please Stop Dressing Like a Prostitute,” regular ThoughtCatalog contributor, J.E. Reich, and I conducted a conversation, part analysis and part repudiation, one wherein we discussed how a lesbian woman and straight man both found fault with the essay and its central premise.

I Wanna Get Drunk With You

I want to let the redness of you stain my smile. I’m thirsty for these moments. I wish to abandon sense and reason, to fly from sober solemn silences and get loud with you, to laugh with you with complete and reckless abandon.