Category: xoJane
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My Love Life Is Dictated By My iTunes Playlist
by Janday Wilson It wasn’t until my senior year of college that I finally acknowledged I had a problem. I’d started hooking up with a friend that I had been crushing on for a semester and a summer. Hanging out always involved music in some way, and we were watching a Kid Cudi interview when…
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“Where Are You Really From?” I’m An “Exotic” Black Girl
by Janday Wilson “Oooh, you’re exotic. I’m going to call y’all Godiva!” That was what a Southern gentleman exclaimed to me and my friend after we told him that our families originated from Liberia and Nigeria, respectively. We had struck up conversation with him and his friends outside of a club and, in exchanging the…