✊🏾 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…
Discrimination is often dismissed because it doesn’t sound “reasonable.” But that’s the thing about discrimination — it never is.When Black people say we’ve been treated differently because of our hair, too many still can’t believe it. They think something as natural, as divine, as the way our hair grows couldn’t…
When I was working as a case manager/counselor in a domestic violence shelter, a family of four came into the shelter one evening. Mom, oldest son, daughter, and young little girl carrying her doll. I was showing them around. I showed them where they could access grooming items. I opened…
