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My Zero Waste Life// First Vlog (VIDEO)
The Zero Waste Life takes practice, and I would like for us all to go down this trash-less road together. That is why I created "My Zero Waste Life."
"My Zero Waste Life" is a vlog about my everyday life sans trash. There are so many methods to my trash-less madness that I often leave my viewers in the dark. The vlog will help to highlight my small victories of zero waste life.
In this episode, I...
Self-Reliance for Ferguson
Let’s think bigger than a month in response to 17-year-old Michael Brown’s death, and the many other recent murders of Black beings in America. In the span of #fergusonoctober happenings, we have delivered quotable speeches, rallied with picket signs and pushed for sentencing; but these things have not (and will not) change the conditions.
Yes, seeking justice for Mike Brown is necessary, but after...
People's Climate March: 10 Climate Issues You Should Know About
In case you've been living under a rock, or wrapped-up in Vine compilations, the biggest climate change march the United States has ever seen is happening in New York City today.
The People's Climate March was initiated to defy the climate summit hosted by the United Nations' secretary general Ban Ki-moon. Kangs and Queenthangsfrom the Bronx and indigenous chiefs from the Midwest will march for...
The Fort is Featured on Carib-Flava.com!
During Downtown Atlanta's Pop-Up series I was able to meet the charismatic Quianah Upton of Arbitrary Living. I stopped pass her antique shop on Friday, when I met another woman-on-fire Stephanie Hasham. She runs a blog Carib-flava.com and got me on camera for her 'Lime Break' edition.
I talk about my transition into Zero Waste life, bad spending habits and why my momma' always thought I was the...
Zero Waste Menstrual Products (VIDEO)
Do you treat your cycle like that secret you're hiding from college?
Not wanting to talk about. Concealing any remnants of its existence. Avoiding the people that could bring it up. And burying it in the depths of your mind. Yea, that great big shade you cast over your body's natural behaviors is making you less of a woman and more of a 'yes man.'
STOP IT! We have become victims to the one thing...