My latest article for Black Eye is out!

So many of my friends back home have asked what’s it like for the Sisters over here…well I’ve started a series to answer just that! Here’s PART ONE of my in depth look into sisters finding love, building homes, families and communities and living productive lives in Japan!

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Here’s an excerpt:

She met her husband, Shinobu, about three years into her tenure here, at a less than auspicious place — a bar — where apparently somebody nampa‘d (pulled)somebody.

“He feels that he was nampa’d” she tells me, giggling at the memory. “I’m not really sure who asked whom to dance. I was slightly inebriated at the time. But I remember thinking, ‘He’s a good dancer and he seems like a nice man.’ He called me a few days later and the rest is, as they say, history.”

Asked whether she ever imagined she’d wind up living and loving her life with a Japanese man, Avril told me emphatically she did not.

“I really felt like Japanese men were not attracted to black women, specifically,” she says, “because I didn’t know any black women that were dating Japanese men. I knew a few white girls that were. In fact, when I first came to Japan, there were very few black women around, period.”

For the rest of this remarkable woman’s journey in Japan, Click Here

Enjoy!

Thanks guys!

Loco

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