Category Archives: Signed Sirelle
Signed Sirelle: “9492”
“Why haven’t you been writing?” If only you knew. Mind was fragmented; thought my sentences would be too. When it got rocky, we knew our time was due. And now I gotta modify my love for you? That ain’t cool … Continue reading
Signed Sirelle: “Marching, Bigly.”
For every action there is a reaction. And movements? They tend to produce countermovements. That was the narrative, widely, on the morning of November 9, 2016. Donald Trump had been elected due to a movement of Americans who had felt … Continue reading
Signed Sirelle: “Battling Rape Culture in the Locker Room of Society”
I find myself to be stuck somewhere between a loss for words and a racing mind. Where are we, truly, just as a people, when men (and women) are flagrantly excusing sexual assault — and more so, justifying it? Listen, … Continue reading
Signed Sirelle: “Letter to My Future Son”
I write this guide to life in the event that I never get to tell my future son myself. My darling boy, I have so many thoughts, I don’t know where to begin. There is a lot going on in … Continue reading
Signed Sirelle: “Untitled”
In the aftermath of the most deadly mass shooting in our nation’s history, we have reached peak hypocrisy in America. Nightmarishly, in the early hours of Sunday morning, a gunman entered a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and opened fire … Continue reading
Signed Sirelle: FEBRUARY 2016 – “The Significance of Black This, Black That: for People Stuck on Stupid”
“There shouldn’t be a Black History Month. We’re Americans. Period. That’s it.” From the moment we begin our grade school circuit of history courses, we’re taught a “wide-ranging” curriculum of American history. The Reconstruction Era, Western Expansion, FDR’s New Deal, … Continue reading
