You Know Your Coinage Doesn't Work When...

It’s a lesson I have had to learn the hard way myself. If you have to explain your coinage parenthetically, then your coinage just isn’t working. So while maybe I will follow every person on this Inspiring Black Women of Twitter list (but not Terry McMillan, because, no), I will definitely not accept @aisha1908 being described as a member of the growing ranks of “twactivists (twitter activists).”