KQ
/ 2021
OK, SO MAYBE I’M HALF BOUJEE ARTICLE BY STEPH MONSON
Boujee or booshie …no matter how you spell it, it’s a word cusping slang used to describe a person or state of mind that is uppity, stylish, and posh. Last week this was the new catchy phrase someone used to describe me. And my first thought was that person doesn’t know me or my history at all if that’s how they see me. When I was still in elementary school, I used every
dollar that touched my fingertips to buy décor for my room. I wanted to be an Interior Designer from as young as I can remember. In my teen years, I lived in an old dilapidated tin can at the perimeter of the 17th Avenue Trailer Court in a sketchy ghetto part of Columbus, Ohio. Bullet holes were scattered along the entire length of the trailer facing the road. Every time we went to the bathroom or bedroom, we got to leap over a sagging hole in the floor covered only by warn carpet. The open oven was our only heat source. I distinctly remember the day an empty mayo jar half filled with dried macaroni looked back at me as the only food we had.
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