I Love Your Complexion!

And other micro-assaults on Black women

Kay Bolden
ZORA
Published in
4 min readApr 4, 2019

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AAgainst my better judgment, I was having dinner with a White man. Not a work dinner or a networking thing — a date. Rhys was nice-looking, funny, new in town, and persistent about helping me weed our overgrown community garden. Persistent, too, about taking me to some “jazz club” I was sure to love.

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Kay Bolden
ZORA
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Author of Breakfast with Alligators: Tales of Traveling After 50, available now on Amazon | Tweet @KayBolden | Contact: kaybolden.xyz