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PILOTS & SCREENPLAYS

COMING-OF-AGE // Hour-Long DRAMEDY Pilot

Jennifer is a repressed sex educator in the throes of coming out. Edy is a non-binary femme reeling from a breakup and their Saturn Return. These two siblings will have to cling to each other and their friends if they hope to survive that messy bitch called their twenties.

JANE // Hour-Long Historical Drama Pilot

Eugenia Lewellen — daughter of a Baptist preacher and the only Black woman in her medical residency program — risks faith, family, and her future as a doctor to help an underground women’s clinic perform safe abortions in 1972, a year before the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade would make abortion legal. Inspired by true events.

ESSAYS

Yes, My Feminism Is Ratchet: Reflections on Inclusive Feminism (For Harriet)

A Painful Silence: What Daniel Holtzclaw Teaches Us about Black Women in America (For Harriet)

In Defense of Jada: The Danger of Being a Black Girl in a Rape Culture (For Harriet)

Reclaiming the Narrative: On #SurvivorLoveLetter, Community, and Radical Healing (The Feminist Wire)

A Black Girl & Her Body: A Love Story (Young, Colored & Angry)

Reflections on Sandra Bland: My Black Body Was Not Meant to Bear All This Trauma (For Harriet)

POEMS

7 anti-psalms for black girls who claim themselves as god (Kinfolks Quarterly)

BLOGS

Michelle Denise Jackson @ WordPress 

A blog I semi-regularly updated between 2013 and 2015 when I decided to quit my full-time job leading youth programs focusing on reproductive justice so I could become a writer and artist full-time. Read for a lot of angst, vulnerability, and self-excavation. 

PROJECT LOVE YOSELF

A blog documenting my efforts to lose 100 lbs. in early 2013 -- and a few posts after that documenting my feelings around failure. Read for a lot of honest ruminations about what it means to live in a fat body, be healthy, and practice self-love & self-sustainability.