The SistaGurl Blog

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!!!  Love is so dope, and Valentine's Day is one of those days that we pay homage to how great it is. For some of us we don't have a date, and that's okay. Because guess what!?!? The SistaGurl team is your Valentine. We love y'all so much that we dedicated this day, to positive energy, and written expressions of love!  We hosted a LOVE IS DOPE spotlight on our social media pages where POETS all around the US, submitted poems to us to exalt the day.  Please check out these authors, and feel free to share with ALL OF YOUR LOVED ONES.  Neroamee Alucard  I can't feel so I tried to touch I grabbed the tree and found only air I held fruit in my hand only for it to rot then and there I looked into the sky, blue and vivid The colors drained as this was written Then I reached for you I felt hope and walls built strong over years of disappointment began to erode It's almost as if life didn't choose me for yet ...

By Felicia Clark Capt SistaGurl here! I was in an R&B YouTube whole and found this goodie. After reading the pain in the comments and the undertones in the track, I reached out to Felicia Clark , and asked her to pen something REAL. Check it out! I’m a writer. I’m an author. I’ve been given the opportunity to walk in my truth. To do what I love...what I breathe for. With writing, there is the creation of scenario and characters. Some of which translate into real life. What if I told you that although I walk around with the biggest brightest smile on my face, that I wasn’t alright? Far from fine! What if I told you that there was a life that I once had that was suddenly snatched away? I was vulnerable enough to get duped into making some traumatic life altering decisions that brought my entire house down . It happened. Oh boy, did it happen. The man that I was married to, the one I truly adored, hurt me. He hurt me in such a way that I may never recover. I allowed him to...

New Submission Alert!!!!! The Sista Gurl welcomes our newest writer Aliyah Young , and she is coming to encourage young women who have found their spirituality, but have been subjected to HATERS. Show her some love below. XOXO Capt SistaGurl Anytime young christians mention being spiritually connected and consistently attending church, the commentary sounds something like, “They don’t do nothing but scam y’all for y’all money” or "You know JESUS ain't real right?". People tend to write God off because of worldly error. They disrespect our Lord and Savior while simultaneously disregarding a loved one's personal choice. One cannot blame people for being upset or feeling disdain for worldly corruption, but that doesn’t directly correlate to the Spirit of the Lord. Making a choice to live for God shouldn’t be met with as much friction as it’s met with for young women of color like myself. It is not crazy, it is not strange, and we shouldn’t feel awkward speaki...