Yo, this will be brief. I am super excited and wanted to share this with you, just in case we’re not connected on Instagram and you haven’t been watching my daily IGTV Videos. If you want to connect, here’s my IG link.
A few weeks ago, Medium emailed me to feature one of my stories.
I thought it was some kind of joke. It wasn’t. A few hours ago, as I was leaving my Literature class, I got the final email from Jada saying my story was live.
I wrote this story last year— I personally enjoyed writing it and I wrote it from a place of :
If I don’t tell my story, no one will.
Yeah, sure, the story was curated in the “race” tag and it did get over 1000 claps. Little did I know that this was how I would get published in one of the Medium owned publications.
So yeah, I am happy. I did get picked by the gatekeepers and it feels great.
I am also aware that I have to realize that this is done—I need to keep writing. I will enjoy this moment ( as I am doing right now, sharing with you), and I will get back to writing.
I would love it if you could take a moment to go read it if you haven’t and clap on the story. Especially the reading part, Medium switched its method of monetizing to reading time. Claps too would be awesome and if you’d like to share my work as well, I would be super honored.
Here’s a friend link to the story in Level. Just make sure to read on a non-mobile version of your browser:
I Grew Up African — But America Makes It Hard To Be Black
That’s it from me today!
Oh, one last thing! I published another episode of The Loving Creative Podcast late last night, it’s about Keeping Your Word. You can listen to it on SoundCloud and iTunes.
Here’s a video by my friend Ed Gobina — a Cameroonian filmmaker living in Norway with his beautiful family. If you use Adobe Premiere Pro, I think you’ll find his solution to the color grading problem in CC 2020 super useful. Please, subscribe to his channel! Especially if you’re a video/photography nerd like me.
You’ve got this. Now, go.