Home for the Black woman who writes first, last, and always

Home for the Black woman who writes first, last, and always

Honey (2020)

By Anijah Mone’t

I feel like I am holding my breath, waiting for the peeping and groping shows with clothes hugging bodies to end, and to somehow allow those who don’t look like me to join me in silence.

- Just Smile More (pg. 6)

Hi! I’m Anijah Mone’T a writer, poet, and digital storyteller. I created HoneyTeePot as a continuation of my self-published poetry collection, honey (2020). This space, like the book, is a

living archive, a place to chronicle Black womanhood.

HoneyTeePot exists to pour light onto Black women writers and hold space for our words…our truth. It's a soft disruption of the long-standing myth that greatness in America must wear the face of Anglo-Saxon whiteness. If you trace the pulse of the literary canon, its rhythm, language, and breath, you’ll find Black women at its core. This blog is my offering, a love letter to what was, is, and will forever be.

You Go Girl! : Don’t Fret Your Degrees Are “Professional” They President Just Ain’t!

Black women earn approximately 65.9% of all doctoral, medical, and dental degrees awarded to Black students. Professional degrees fall into this category. President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act has required the Board of Education to identify “professional degree” programs that will be eligible for higher federal lending limits. Said programs that are not eligible for identification are the programs that Black women are dominating in. So what does this mean for the future Black women dentist, doctors, and teachers looking to finance their education? : the elimination of the GRAD Plus program and lower borrowing limits.

Slated to take effect on July 1, 2026—-I just want Black women to know we see the discourse , hear your concerns, and trust we got you! In the meantime contact your representatives, urge your members of congress to intervene and pressure the Department of Education! And remember the great words of Franklin Saint “ we built these high halls of academia brick by brick and we’ll be damed if we let President Trump tear them down just because he doesn’t like the way us Black women flourish”… I paraphrase of course.

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