Introductions are in order

Javacia N. Harris

journalista

I'm a journalist living in Louisville, Kentucky, but I moved here from California and I was born and bred in Birmingham, Alabama. This means I often use the words "dude" and "y'all" in the same sentence. You've been warned. If you want to read the stuff I write to pay the rent, visit www.courier...

Tuesday, May, 13, 2008

Welcome to my blog. Come on in and look around. If I could offer you a seat and a glass of sweet tea I would.

Allow me to introduce myself. I'm an arts and entertainment journalist, freelance fitness writer, columnist, wannabe poet and a wife. Whew!

I maintain a blog for the publication for which I work full time, but here at skirt! I want to really let my hair down. Don’t worry. I plan to offer readers more than my ranting, raving and rambling (although there will be plenty of that). I also want to spark important discussions, introduce you to fierce and fabulous women and even share a little poetry. I hope you’ll stick around to see what’s in store.

I’ll leave you today with a quote from one of my favorite poets, June Jordan.

“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."