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February 1, 2022

What Black History Month Means When You’re Black (But Also African)

Vera Ezimora - Verastic - Black History Month

My life officially began in Leningrad, Russia, and you have guessed correctly that there was no Black History Month there. I spent four years of my life in Russia before my parents moved us back to Nigeria. I do not remember much of my life in Russia, but my parents have told me the story several times of how I was once called a monkey because I was black. I do not recall this, so it does not affect me in anyway. I still dream of going back to visit Russia someday. After Russia, I spent some Read More

January 14, 2022

Today Is My Birthday, And I’m Keeping Calm

I had plans for this birthday. I was going to do a photoshoot, like the sexy one I did in 2020, but maybe less sexy and more creative. Somewhere between COVID and more COVID, it just did not happen. Honestly, I was lazy, and what I wanted to accomplish would have taken me more time than I had. So, here I am with no new [professional] pictures. Normally, I'm turned up about my birthday, but this year, I'm so calm. Too calm even. There's a kind of confidence and optimism that has settled on me, Read More

January 3, 2022

Enter Vera. But This Time In 2022

My first post on this blog was titled Enter Vera. It was only one paragraph, and the writing was not great - and that's putting it kindly. I wrote 2 intead of to. And lemme instead of let me. And U instead of you. Ugh. You could smell the immaturity in my writing. That was on January 26th, 2006. Sixteen whole years ago! Where did all the time go? It's not lost on me that my last two sentences rhyme, and considering COVID and my desperation to have a great year, I am formally considering this as Read More

November 3, 2020

I’m Thinking About Becoming A Lesbian

So much has happened in 2020. The pandemic. George Floyd (and many others). Black Lives Matter protests. The looting and violence thereafter. End Sars. Nigeria's missing president. Nigeria's military killing its own people. Andrew Gillum coming out as bisexual (as if he's telling us something he did not already show us). Kobe Bryant. Kobe's daughter, Gigi. The Black Panther is gone. Rest in peace, Chadwick Boseman. Wakanda Forever! Then there's the Meghxit of Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan. Read More

October 26, 2020

It’s The Anniversary Of My Divorce!

I was on the phone with Uju a few days ago, and we were discussing something when I mentioned that it was almost a year since my divorce became final. And then it occurred to me that my divorce was final in October 2019 and we were now in October 2020. So that was when I looked through my 2019 calendar and lo and behold, the anniversary of my divorce was in 24 hours! - Saturday, October 24th, 2020. Let me tell you about this day, one year ago. On Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019, I was at work when Read More

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