Alanah Davis is a Baltimore-based mother, cultural worker, community advocate, and social change and arts consultant. She earned her master’s degree in social design at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Davis is a Leslie King Hammond graduate fellow, Maryland Delaware and DC Press Association awardee with the Maryland Matters newsroom, and a 2021 recipient of the Fred Lazarus Leadership for Social Change award. Her written witticisms surrounding love, race, womanhood, and being a human have gone viral online in perfect millennial fashion and are also in print to match her old soul.
In hindsight, perhaps picking up an insect with widely set apart and prominent eyes, short antennae, and membranous front wings from a superfamily was…
A note from the author: I’d like to dedicate this piece to my resilient family of artists in Baltimore City. It’s been a year…
Alanah Davis reflects on her experiences with realizing themes of racial fantasy in the world, especially with Asian women as she grieves alongside the…
What’s up, y’all! So I interviewed two really down-to-earth authors named Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones, thanks to the nonprofit educational group Maryland Humanities….
The author suggests that you might need this to help with the Baltimore-centric African American Vernacular English (AAVE) laced throughout this commentary. Ayo on…
Let me start off by saying that I’m not a grief counselor, a licensed social worker, an ordained minister, or a rabbi, but I…
Editor’s note: Between now and Jan. 3, we’re re-running 12 great articles that appeared in Maryland Matters in 2020, in chronological order. On Jan….
“Y’all wanna go with me to Guinness Brewery on Thursday?” were the words I read in a group text from Jason Bass, founder of…
So I’ll start off by saying, Guilty…you caught me. My 29th birthday was last Friday and I’m still watching my all-time favorite Halloween movies…
Is Halloween as pagan as we behave all year-round as humans? There are factions of society dead set against celebrating this eerie and sinister…