Man, 2017 was a tough year. But I survived, and you did too! Otherwise, how are you here right now? Can ghosts read things on the internet? Please don’t haunt my computer!
On November 9, 2016, I woke up around 2:30 A.M. to find out that the world was upside down. And not Upside Down like in Stranger Things, which I almost would’ve preferred. No, this felt like I made it to the apex of a roller coaster loop… and then my safety harness came undone.
Needless to say, I didn’t go back to sleep that night. I stayed up, crying and trying to process exactly what life in America was going to look like for me—a woman of color—in the years to come. I was numb when I went to work. What followed was a year that few of us ever pictured.
