Category: Black Women

This Is Not Confusion. It Is Memory: Black Women, Language, and the Right to Self-Definition.
updated from June 2025
This history is not symbolic. It is sp [...]

Epistemic Control: When Someone Else Tries to Become the Author of Your Reality
The first step in controlling a person is often convincing the [...]

⭐ Why I Resist Diluted Language Like “Birthing People” Part 1
Updated from November 2025
How hard is it to ju [...]

Juneteenth: Proof That Even Our Freedom Is Seen as “Too Much”
Juneteenth is not just a holiday. It is a mirror [...]

Lucy Diggs Slowe: She Protected Us in Silence So We Could One Day Speak
“Because boundaried spaces don’t build themselves—someone has [...]

Grief That Echoes: Honoring the Women Amiri Baraka Lost to Violence
There are wounds that don’t stop bleeding just because the [...]

Dr. Angella Dorothea Ferguson: The Woman Who Refused to Let Sickle Cell Patients Be Forgotten
Calling Things by Their Proper Name: Honoring Dr. Angella Doro [...]

12 Similarities Between Josephine Baker and Megan Thee Stallion
Make your own choices. Live your own life. But w [...]

Valaida Snow: The Black American Jazz Star Caught in Nazi-Occupied Europe
There are some women history remembers only halfway.It r [...]

Why Black Women Stay So Careful When We Are in Distress
It shattered me that as Cherrie Moore was being punched in [...]