Nichole Perkins is a writer from Nashville, Tennessee who examines the intersections of pop culture, race, sex, gender, and relationships. She’s a 2017 Audre Lorde Fellow at the inaugural Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat and a 2017 BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellow. Her debut essay collection is called Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be.Recommended Reading:Negotiations by Destiny O. BirdsongHeads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-SpiresLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices