‘Smoke Your Weed, Baby’: Memories of My Mother’s Truth or D.A.R.E.
by Jasmine Burnett from on (#4Z21Z)

Today is the day my mother's body expired because it could no longer take the demands of dialysis to manage the serial killer so many black families face-that literal motherfucker diabetes. She left this earth Feb. 7, 2018, and in every moment since, my life has been a series of disbelief, denial, and levels of grief"