Arielle Loren

A very wise young woman gave me the title of this post while I was listening to the post-screening panel discussion of The Black Girl Project. She declared, “love is not an emotion, it’s a discipline.” While the young woman was referring to romantic love, I’d like to remix the sentiment of the quote, so [...]

I once heard that love is simple. You care for someone, you’re willing to sacrifice life for them, and if they love you in return you’ll never have to. I am learning to love myself and in the process I am going insane. They don’t teach you to love yourself when you’re young. Everything else [...]

I am a long-standing Christina Aguilera fan. From the time she belted “Reflection” on the Mulan soundtrack, she had my girlhood captured and became a fixture in my music life as a woman. Since returning, I’ve enjoyed her new tracks, but particularly, I found this one quite moving. “You Lost Me” tells the story of [...]

I’m sitting in my Entertainment Law for Producers class (no worries, I’m paying attention, but the truth is that I know better than to not hire a lawyer for my film projects) and I just finished reading Demetria Lucas’ (aka Belle) “Weight-y Matters” article. Earlier this week, I also read Sista Toldja’s article (that Belle [...]

For the last hour, I have been observing the live discussion on Black Women & Marriage on Essence.com Although I appreciate some of the discussion leaders and their comments, I actually was rather disappointed in the participants. It was the same ol’ same ol’ lines for me. Can we stop complaining please ladies? and gents! [...]