If you’re active on social media, I’m sure you’re accustomed to the tumultuous wave that is celebrity and cancel culture. Honestly, these days, it doesn’t even have to be a celebrity—sometimes, it’s someone in your Facebook groups, or your group chat, or your coworkers. Some things I’ve been thinking about lately are: who is actually … Continue reading Cancel Culture & You
Tag: white privilege
Fake Friends
Hi. An interesting aspect of girlhood that not only branches out into, but completely consumes womanhood, is fake friends. Only, recently, I am noticing that this doesn’t only pertain to womanhood—there is an undercurrent of fakeness in modern society that is hurting the kind of people we are evolving into. This undercurrent is generally based … Continue reading Fake Friends
The Mammyfication of Black Women
Hi. We have to learn and grow simultaneously, or else we will not succeed. mam·my ˈmamē/ offensive a black nursemaid or nanny in charge of white children. I found this on Google, and honestly found it to be too forgiving. Mammy’s were not called “nursemaids,” they were called slaves or “the help,” their humanity stripped from … Continue reading The Mammyfication of Black Women
The Voice of the “Angry Black Woman”
Hi. I’ve been working my way up to this blog post for a while. As I continue to unpack my past and clear out the energy blockages such as fear and being a people-pleaser, blockages that once kept me from speaking my mind, I am finding that it is becoming much easier— yet this topic … Continue reading The Voice of the “Angry Black Woman”
Listen to Black Women Like You Mean It
Hi. In an attempt to be transparent and consistently say what’s on my mind without fear, I want to state that I am aware that these next few weeks are going to sit wrong with the people who need to hear it most. I say this, not to garnish pity, but, rather, to encourage more … Continue reading Listen to Black Women Like You Mean It
Self-Serving Activism
Hi. An issue I have noticed in the leftbook groups I am in, and from the accounts I see retweeted largely, is that the activism being displayed is self-serving. Here, you find a bunch of people, usually straight white women at police brutality marches and straight white men at feminist marches, who are being paraded … Continue reading Self-Serving Activism
The Race Talk
Hi. In case this is news to anyone, I’m black. In fact, I’m black first, and a woman second. These two intersections of my being cannot be ignored or debated, and so I am always up front about both. I say this, because sometimes, instead of viewing people in the wholeness of their being, people … Continue reading The Race Talk
