I did some dope stuff this year, like writing Famous! for teen girls, helping The No.1 Son pick a high school that celebrates his creativity and jogging in the park. (The last one is a big deal since I’m the girl who envies runners like, I wish I could do that…as if they were Mutants melting […]
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Drum roll, please: So my book, Famous! How to Be the Star of Your Show: A Teen Girl’s Guide to Embracing Her Fabulous Self is available on Amazon.com. Go ahead and order it here. I’m nervous, but the love from you guys has been all kinds of amazing, and I can’t wait to see you at the book
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I’m happy to report that I was never called into the principal’s office—until I became an adult, but that’s what happens when you have a bunch of friends who run schools and two who were bold enough to create one from scratch. This time I was invited to be the keynote speaker for Summit Academy
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Life isn’t like those choose your own adventure books. If it were, plenty of people would reach for an alternate ending right now. Sometimes you’ll follow the herd because there’s safety in numbers or to blend in, and sometimes you’ll get a little circus with it, because you’re sick of the crowd and your shade
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Truth: I procrastinated about writing this post, which in a weird and twisted way makes me an expert on the subject. We all do it. Wait to the last minute. Avoid. Ignore. Or my personal fave, pretend like it will go away after the next Netflix movie. But it doesn’t. So I whipped up this
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Instagram is cyber crack, right? It gives you life first thing in the morning, the very second you rub crust from your eyes. Later, you post a selfie and check the likes and the comments. One of your IG followers, a stranger (okay, a troll), takes a jab at your teeth. All of a sudden
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Your girl, Tee, is a bookworm and super proud of it. You can find me in the library, Barnes & Noble or on the couch with a book. No disrespect to ebooks (I have those too), but I’m alllll about turning crisp pages. I love words and when the right author crafts them, shoot, they
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5 Things I Wish I Knew In High School Most of us survive high school, but it’s not easy. If the flux capacitor wasn’t busted on my DeLorean Time Machine, I’d travel back in time and tell young Tee 5 Things I Wish I Knew In High School. It would help her out a lot.
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This morning I fiddled with my braids to whip up a quick style and without even thinking, I pinned some strands back and looked exactly like an older version of Jada. Jada is the 16-year-old girl whose rape went viral on social media when someone took pictures of her half-naked, unconscious body, and others imitated
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Dear Mr. Nas, I often think about the good ole days at Kennedy-King School—jumping double Dutch in the yard, dodging the horny boys at gym and reading Chloris and the Creeps for the hundredth time. But what stands out most is the week leading up to sixth graduation, or should I say the
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