✊🏾 Reflection

It has been my experience that people across the political spectrum — left, right, and in between — often struggle to believe that Black women and girls have a right to gather on our own terms.
Spaces that belong fully to us — without supervision, monitoring, or outside approval — are treated as suspicious instead of sacred.

But our need for Boundaried Spaces is not about exclusion. It’s about exhale. It’s about being able to think, pray, plan, and heal without the constant gaze of those who misunderstand or mistrust our autonomy.

When Black women and girls create spaces for ourselves, we are not shutting others out — we are building safety, dignity, and restoration from generations of being watched, corrected, and controlled.
We are gathering to recover what the world keeps trying to take from us: peace, trust, and the freedom to simply be.