Seattle’s Adventures in Bougie Vol. 2 – Dog Party

Before last Friday the only dog party I was familiar with involved my purple and gold brethren, copious amounts of drink and something my fellow Greeks referred to as a set out. If you don’t know, then ask someone. However, the dog party I went to this past Friday is definitely a much more bougie [...]

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Do I Really Have to Choose?

A couple days back I wrote the first chapter in the book that will be Seattle’s Adventures in Bougie and one young lady congratulated me on “stepping out of the hood box and on into the bougie one.” Now I’m sure the comment wasn’t meant with maliciousness, I hope, but I have to admit I [...]

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Seattle’s Adventures in Bougie: Vol. 1

As I’ve gotten older and more mature (I think), I’ve gotten opportunities to indulge in cultured events or, as they’re sometimes dubbed, bougie s**t.  Like drinking pomegranate juice, going to roofdeck parties and, recently, attending a fashion show.  What made this show different from the ones I attended in college held by countless African American orgs [...]

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Being Black and a Hard Place

(pause) I know that sounds like a porn that you may have rented before (you know the one). And with the title of this blog you probably expected it eventually. Sorry to let you down, but this isn’t a post about our sexual endeavors. As blogworthy as they may be. This is about a topic [...]

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