Directed and Filmed: Black Girl On A Bike.

(Source: blackgirl-onabike)

I am learning how to skateboard, I said.

When my Italian boss of about forty asked me who’s rickety skateboard was hogging the space behind the counter. He reminds me of a pitbull.

He laughed but I could feel the tension in my thighs from four hours spent skating between the paths in the forest reservation.

I’m trying to say,

I want to become some force of nature on a four wheel piece of wood. I want to fall on my knees and watch them bleed as my skirt flies with the wind. 

I want to defy the rules of feminity at first glance but I want you to love me for being pure. 

I was told to lose myself years ago and I’m deciding to reclaim it.

This is me telling you that I am now going to unleash myself in some part of the world that you cannot see. I will be unnoticed, happy, and creating— far away from ruin.

Shadow photos that I’ve been experimenting with: