Nutmeg and Sage is an opinion Blog created by writer Shanese Indoowaaboo Steele. Here you will find pieces that cover a wide range of topics from Queer dating, mental health and body positivity. N&S looks to cover issues and questions that address the realities of identity that spans from the Windward Islands of Trinidad, Grenada and Carriacou to Turtle Island.
The Heavy Burden of Equity: Black Women’s Struggle for Safe Spaces and Mental Health
What happens when the work meant to create safer spaces for people who look like you is also the work that is slowly destroying your mental health? This is a question that I and so many other Black women who do equity, diversity, and inclusion work have had to ask ourselves. It is the constant battle between wanting to keep up the fight but also burning yourself out until there’s no more fight left.
From Fat to Thin: Navigating Society’s Weighty Expectations and the Struggle to Reclaim Humanity
Fat. It’s a term that usually causes fear in the hearts of those who don’t use it as a self-descriptor. All through the pandemic I watched and listened as friends, family and randoms on social media cried out over how terrifying it was that they were gaining weight, that they could *in shock and horror,* become fat themselves.
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BEING A PART OF THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY DOES NOT ERASE YOU RACISM OR TRANSPHOBIA! Whew I’m glad we got that out of the way.
Shanese Indoowaaboo Steele
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