About Me — Sondra Rose Marie
(Updated 7/17/23)
The Basics ✅
✍🏾 Since my first short story (an absolute ✨masterpiece✨ I wrote in first grade about my Barbie doll going camping with her friends) I knew that writing caused something within me to come to life.
🏳️🌈 Today, my intersectional identity — I’m a neurodivergent Black lesbian — informs much of my work. I never shy away from writing about things deemed inappropriate for polite dinner conversation—such as race, income, mental health, and death—because talking about these things makes us all more compassionate people.
💰 From 9–5, I work as a Sr. Copywriter at a multicultural marketing agency. In my free time, I run a freelance content writing and copywriting business, SRM Creative.
10 Fun Facts About Me 👀
- As a “military brat,” I’ve lived in 3 countries (USA, England, Denmark) and 5 states (California, Texas, New Mexico, Virginia, and Georgia) ✈️
- I took pole dancing lessons for 3 years and I loved it so much that I bought a pole for my studio apartment 💃🏽
- The only person I ever met IRL from OkCupid is now my wife 👩🏽❤️💋👩🏾
- I went to a woman’s college but it actually went co-ed my junior year, so I received two years of same-sex education and two years of co-education 🎓
- I spent 8 years working as a bartender and waitress and I loved it 🍻
- My very first job ever was wearing the Easter Bunny costume at the photo station at the mall 🐰
- When I was 30, I found out I had a secret long-lost sister thanks to Facebook 😮
- I am really open about my mental health: I have ADHD, depression, and anxiety 🧠
- My favorite food is crab: My mom is from Maryland and my dad’s from Louisiana, so seafood was almost sacred in our house as I grew up 🦀
- I have a deep and abiding love of the rock band Hole, specifically their Celebrity Skin and Live Through This albums 🎸
What I’m Up to Now 🪩
- 🎨 Taking a Squarespace design course
- ⚜️ Learning French via Duolingo
Currently on day 31 of my latest streak - 🇸🇳 Raising funds to attend my first writer’s residency (in Senegal!)
- 📚 Trying to take out my ever-growing TBR pile
Currently reading: Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
2023 Goals 🎯
- Publish at least 25 articles on Medium
Current status: 10 published so far - Build physical movement into my daily life to help release some deep 👏🏾seated 👏🏾 trauma 👏🏾
Current status: I walk on my treadmill during work meetings 1x a week - Master 5 photogenic poses I can whip out for pictures that I actually feel really good about and comfortable with
- Surpass $5,000 in freelancing income
Writing Review of 2022 ⏪
2022 was a weird year for me where I focused more on finding freelancing clients than writing for Medium. That wasn’t my favorite choice, so in 2023 I’ll be experimenting with a new approach.
🤹🏾♀️ Freelance
- # of freelance assignments in 2022: 27
- Amount of money made freelancing in 2022: $3,255
🥊 Medium
- # of Medium Articles in 2022: 7
- # of new followers in 2022: 176
- Amount made on Medium in 2022: $112.71
- Amount made on Medium since joining in 2019: $2,299.66
- Most popular article of 2022: Black Women Don’t Care That You Dislike Beyoncé
- Most popular article of all time: How to Lose a Friend Over One Racist Post
💕 Thanks for taking the time to learn a little bit more about me and for checking out my work here on Medium! I’d love to “meet” you in the comments below 👇🏾
