Author Archives: Raven

I design and market visual advocacy tools for an NPO start-up in Chicago, IL. Yellow is my favorite color.

An Informal Treatise on Montana Fishburne

What is more sad than disturbing is Ms. Montana implies that her interest in sex is special – something to be seen by gaggles of blurry-eyed onlookers. She’s learning something and everyone should find out what she discovers along the way. But, the dreary fact is that her curiosity is not special. It’s no more interesting than the dozens of clips and video montages any curious 15-year old boy can Google on a late Saturday night. There is no air of mystery surrounding Montana Fishburne or her interest in sex (or sexuality).

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Weekend Recap: The Hug Project, Reading (in Print) & a Feast!

I’ve been an avid fan of illustration of any kind. So, of course it makes sense that I read comic books. But, I’m also a fantasy literature geek. Anything having to do with magic, kingdoms, random surreal crap – I’m there.

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How to Blog With Drama (Or an Observation on Being Passionate When You Write)

Let the drama be unapologetically honest. Being dramatic is useful.

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The Heaven & Hell of Natural Hair: My Journey From Straight to Kink

And, while it’s completely fine (and refreshing) for more women to take control of styling their own hair, I still miss the luxury of having someone else take care of my natural curls. This is especially true when you don’t want to spend an arm and a couple of legs or sacrifice good quality hair styling in the process.

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The Cheap Village

I want to know why we (readers, consumers, whoever) are so willing to pay for the cheap? Cheap has nothing to do with actual monetary cost, but has everything to do with the intangibles spent and the value gained. There are lots of ways to spend cheap. You are paying with attention spans from your brain, minutes lost in conversation (or translation), bits of disappointment or sadness.

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Weekend Recap: Burlesque, Boylesque & Some Art

Therefore, I thought my time would be best spent trickling sweat in every place imaginable by perusing the wares at the Gold Coast Art Fair.

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Something About Career, My Blog – and Look at This Eyeball

Anyway, I attended the Brazen Career meetup hosted by the ever lovely Charlotte Mutesha of Miz Chartreuse. The purpose of the meet up was to get friendly with other like-minded-ass-in-the-driver’s-seat-of-their-career folk (aka networking) and something about crowdsourcing your career

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The Cupcake, The Fight & The Making Up (Not Necessarily in that Order)

Shiny happy goodness from Foiled Cupcakes

Seriously. Yesterday’s weather could’ve been a lot…mo’ better. But, I won’t complain too much because these were delivered to my office:

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