by Veronica Chambers | Jul 20, 2023
Ever since I was in my teens, my best friends (and full disclosure—my boyfriends) have all been older. In my 20s and 30s, the trend continued. I didn’t want to hang out in bars with people my own age, people who were muddling through youth and trying to figure it out....
by Veronica Chambers | Mar 5, 2019
I spent a lot of the past year thinking about Beyoncé. As editor of a new collection of essays about the pop superstar, it was actually my job. I was a Beyoncé fan, but not a fanatic. But over the course of a year, my esteem and admiration for her grew...
by Veronica Chambers | Nov 26, 2018
I grew up in Brooklyn in the 1970s and 1980s, when feminism and womanism was in full bloom. My scope of womanhood was a universe built by the likes of Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Margaret Atwood, and Shirley Chisholm. The truth is that I never understood first...
by Veronica Chambers | Aug 28, 2018
Part of our series of articles about what we wear and how clothes make us feel. I have always loved beautiful clothes. My mother is an exquisite seamstress, and even though we didn’t have a lot of money, she always instilled in me a “better, fewer things” ethos....
by Veronica Chambers | Jun 20, 2018
I became a “Little Mama” early in my life. I was six years old, growing up in Brooklyn, and my after-school job was to pick up my three-year-old brother from daycare and walk him home. There were periods when my great-grandmother lived with us, and when she did, she...