Shenequa Golding

I hate the “about me” section. How am I supposed to truncate nearly forty years of life into a few sentences?

Don’t you want to know why I think brownies are a useless coalition of fudge and chocolate with no real agenda item? Or why I started loc-ing my hair? (Fun Fact: I have 63 locs.)

Aren’t you interested in learning why after thirty-seven years of love and loyalty to the color blue, last year, the color green showed up at my local coffee shop like all heartbreakers do in those Hallmark movies, and now green’s mere presence is making me question the institution of monogamy and what it means to love?

So yeah, the “about me” section is where depth and nuance go to die…if you ask me.

Still there? Cool.

My name’s Shenequa and I’m a writer. My work has been published everywhere from VIBE to Vanity Fair. I write about my life, relationships, sometimes music, sometimes culture, and sometimes I write about the losses I’ve taken. I write about observations I’ve made, random thoughts that won’t help your credit score, and what it means to be a Black woman still, to this day, trying to figure it all out.