Category: Culture
Black Women Have Been Warning You: Fascism Has Always Seen Us as the First to Silence
Black women don’t need a textbook to recognize fascism on this planet. [...]
The Parable of Silencing, Denial, and the Truth That Returned
🕯 The Parable of the Crooked Weaver
Once, in a small village wrapped [...]
They Tell Us We Don’t Belong in What We Built (featuring K.Michelle short)
Some people may see this clip of K. Michelle as just a moment.
But [...]
Raising Children, Keeping House: Unpaid Labor Has a Cost
We say, “It takes a village.”
But more often than not, “the village [...]
When Communities Celebrate Predators: The Cost of Uplifting R. Kelly in Black Spaces
Stop making abuse a softer crime just because the beat is familiar.
L [...]
Black Women’s Safety Is Not Optional: It’s a Justice Issue
1. We Are Often the First to Speak Up—and the Last to Be Protected
Bl [...]
You Don’t Get to Speak on Our Hair Journey
For Black American women, the natural hair journey is deeply persona [...]
Curves, Control & Convenient Amnesia: The 90s and Early 2000s Edition
The 90s were velvet and vinyl,grunge and glitter, a time when girl [...]
Our Tongues Survived the Fire: The Story of Xhosa, Survival, and Respect
There are languages that carry the rhythm of a people’s soul.Languages [...]
Who Benefits From My Silence?
Every time I swallowed the truth, someone else got fed.Fed with powe [...]